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Professor Selma Mededovic Thagard

Selma Mededovic Thagard is the Richard and Helen March Professor of Chemical Engineering at Clarkson University. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Zagreb in Croatia and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Florida State University. Before joining Clarkson, Thagard held postdoctoral appointments at Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan and at Colorado State University.

Her expertise is in electrical discharge plasma processes and plasma reactor design, with a focus on environmental remediation. Thagard has co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and has successfully supervised research projects supported by industrial partners and State and Federal agencies. She serves on the Editorial Boards of Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing and Plasma Sources Science and Technology, and is an Associate Editor of Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy.

Thagard is a founder of DMAX Plasma, Inc., a company specializing in the development of electrical discharge plasma reactors designed to destroy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water.