Susannah Scott

Susannah L. Scott is a Canadian-American chemist who is Professor of Surface Chemistry and the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Sustainable Catalysis at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research considers the design of heterogeneous catalysts for the efficient conversion of feedstocks and catalysts that improve the environment. She serves as an Executive Editor of ACS Catalysis and is a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science. Early life and education Scott earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry at the University of Alberta. She moved to Iowa State University for her doctoral work, where she studied oxygen activation and oxidation mechanisms catalysed by transition metals. She worked under the supervision of James (Jim) Espenson and Andreja Bakac. After completing her doctorate, Scott joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow where she worked with Jean-Marie Basset. Research and career In 2001, Scott joined the faculty at the University of Ottawa, where she was named a Canada Research Chair. Scott moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2003. Scott's research considers the design of heterogeneous catalysts for the efficient conversion of feedstocks and catalysts that improve the environment. The design of heterogenous catalysts is limited because of the lack of information about the identities of the active sites. To overcome these shortcomings, Scott has created model catalysts with precisely controlled local structures. She has created models of the active sites for the polymerisation of olefin and metathesis.