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STAR Grantee Receives Honor from ES&T
WASHINGTON (NCER) - Mamadou S. Diallo, Ph.D., was recently honored with
the “Excellence in Review Award” from the highly cited Journal
of Environmental Science and Technology. This publication of the American
Chemical Society targets scientists, researchers, and professionals across
a broad array of environmental disciplines. The journal recognized Dr.
Diallo for his service in providing both scholarly and timely reviews
to this prestigious scientific journal.
Dr. Diallo has been a Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grantee since 1999. At present, his STAR research project centers on Dendritic Nanoscale Chelating Agents: Synthesis, Characterization, Molecular Modeling and Environmental Applications. His goals are to develop more effective, functional materials to recover precious and toxic metals from industrial wastewater solutions using low-cost membranes made from nanomaterials. In addition, he is developing more effective ways to detoxify perchloroethylene in water. Perchloroethylene or PCE is a man-made substance widely used in the dry cleaning industry and for metal-degreasing operations. There are many health effects associated with exposure to perchloroethylene including damage to the liver and kidneys, impaired memory, confusion, dizziness, headache, and others. In the past, Dr. Diallo worked with the STAR-funded Great Lakes/Mid-Atlantic Hazardous Substances Research Center to understand the interactions of hydrophobic organic compounds with soil organic matter.
Dr. Diallo is currently the Director of Molecular Environmental Technology in the Materials and Process Simulation Center, Beckman Institute, at the California Institute of Technology. He is also a visiting assistant professor in Howard University’s Department of Civil Engineering. In addition to his academic appointments, Dr. Diallo is a member of the American Chemical Society’s Environmental Chemistry and Colloidal and Interface Science Division, the American Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, and the American Society of Neutron Scattering.
Dr. Diallo’s research interests include the characterization and
computer-assisted structure elucidation of natural organic matter, computational
environmental chemistry, multiscale environmental process modeling, and
nanoscale environmental science and technology. He is leading the development
and implementation of a collaborative research program in Nanoscale Environmental
Science and Technology between the Department of Civil Engineering at
Howard University and the Materials and Process Simulation Center of
the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology. This
program has received funding from the Environmental Protection Agency,
the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and the National
Water Research Institute (www.nwri-usa.org 
).
Dr. Diallo earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering and M.S. in Chemistry, both from the University of Michigan. He also received an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. During his studies, the American Chemical Society’s Division of Environmental Chemistry twice awarded Dr. Diallo with the Graduate Student Paper Award and the Graduate Student Award.