Professor Spivey is the McLaurin Shivers Professor of Chemical Engineering at Louisiana State University and Director of the DOE Energy Frontier Research Center at LSU. Professor Spivey's research interests include the application of the principles of heterogeneous catalysis to catalytic combustion, control of sulfur and nitrogen oxides from combustion processes, acid/base catalysis (e.g., for condensation reactions), hydrocarbon synthesis, and the study of catalyst deactivation.

• Preface;Key catalyst types for the efficient refining of Fischer–Tropsch syncrude: alumina and phosphoric acid;Recent developments and achievements in partial oxidation of methane with and without addition of steam;Precious metal catalysts for deep hydrodesulfurization;Catalytic reactions studied by angle-resolved product desorption;Quantification of cluster size effect (structure sensitivity) in heterogeneous catalysis;Photocatalysis in green chemistry and destruction of very toxic compounds;Hierarchical zeolites: materials with improved accessibility and enhanced catalytic activity;Catalysis involved in dimethylether production and as an intermediate in the generation of hydrocarbons via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis and MTG process;Selective oxidation catalysis on rhenium-oxide catalysts