Concetta La Marca is a Senior Principal Consultant at the Chemours Co., with 35 years of industrial experience. Since completing her graduate work at the Univ. of Delaware, she has worked at DuPont and Chemours as a reaction engineering specialist. Following her undergraduate studies at MIT, she spent three years working at Hercules. Concetta also has served on the adjunct faculty at Rowan Univ., where she co-taught the junior-level reaction engineering course from 2004 to 2022.
At DuPont and Chemours, the focus of her work has been to describe the kinetics of chemical reactions using a rigorous, fundamental approach addressing significant engineering problems in combustion systems, NOx reduction, hazard analysis, and fluorocarbons. She contributed to the development of next-generation, low GWP fluorochemical products, namely Opteon™ YF and Opteon™ 1100, as well as to processes for HFC-134a, TFE production, and other systems. She received several DuPont awards in recognition of her work, and is the author of more than 26 journal articles and patents.
Concetta serves the reaction engineering community as an officer and executive board member of the International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering, and co-chaired its 2010 conference. She served as Consulting Editor for AIChE Journal, and on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, and Energy and Fuels, and as a CACHE Trustee.