CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Paul Anastas

Yale Department of Chemistry 
New Haven CT, USA


Title 
To Design for Sustainability, Forget Almost Everything You Were Taught
 

Pablo Beato

Lead Scientist of the spectroscopy laboratories
and project manager for catalyst development, TOPSOE, Denmark


Title
Catalysis for Sustainable Fuels


short bio
 

Malte Behrens

Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany, 

Title 
Materials and mechanisms to promote CO2 hydrogenation to methanol

short bio 
 

David E. Bergbreiter

Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University
Texas, USA

Title 
Sustainable Homogeneous Catalysis Using Sustainable Safer Solvents
 

Jeroen Anton van Bokhoven

ETH Zürich, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences 
Zürich, Switzerland; Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland


Title 
Heterogeneous catalysts under pressure
 
short bio  
 

Hélène Olivier-Bourbigou

2021 EFCATS Award in Applied Catalysis

IFP Énergies nouvelles, France

Title 
“THE EFCATS APPLIED CATALYSIS AWARD” “Adventure in Homogeneous catalysis: from laboratory to industrial applications”
 
short bio  
 

Emiel Hensen

Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
 
Title
Catalysis at the metal-support interface: about nanoparticles, clusters and single metal atoms

short bio 
 

De Chen

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Trondheim, Norway

 
Title
Engineering of Catalytic Cycles in Redox Reactions 
 

Hermenegildo García Gomez

Polytechnic University of Valencia
Valencia, Spain

 
Title
Metal-organic Frameworks as versatile solar photocatalysts for overall water splitting
 

Alexey Kirilin

Research Scientist at Dow (Corporate R&D)
the Netherlands

 
Title
Catalysis for sustainable chemical production
 
 
short bio 
 

Jürgen Klankermayer

Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University
Aachen, Germany

 

Title
Translational Molecular Catalysis: From Challenging Catalytic Hydrogenations
to Open-Loop Recycling

 

Michalis Konsolakis

Industrial, Energy and Environmental System Laboratory (IEESL)
School of Production Engineering & Management
Technical University of Crete, Chania, GR-73100, GREECE
Technical University of Crete, Chania, GREECE 

 
Title
Ceria Nanoparticles Shape Effects in Catalysis
 

Andrzej Kotarba

Faculty of Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland

Title 
Science and Art of Successful Catalysts Promotion by Alkali 
 

Tristan Lambert

William T. Miller Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and
Chemical Biologyat Cornell University, United States


Title 
Electrophotocatalysis: Combining Light and Electricity to Promote Reactions
 

Agustín Martínez

Instituto de Tecnología Química
Valencia, Spain


Title 
Intensification of catalytic processes for the synthesis of hydrocarbons from renewable feedstocks
 

Louise Olsson

Professor in Chemical Engineering,
Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden


Title 
Treatment of flue/exhaust gases from energy stationary and mobile sources
 

short bio 
 

Siglinda Perathoner

University of Messina
Messina, Italy

 
Title 
Electrocatalysis: facing the challenge of extending its use to go beyond fossil fuels
 

Carlo Perego

Senior Advisor, Italy


Title  
Renewable fuels from waste in the circular economy era
 

Catherine Pinel

Director of Research at the Institute of Research on Catalysis
and Environment of Lyon, France

 
Title
Biomass as feedstock for non-food applications

Evgeny Rebrov

Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
and School of Engineering, the University of Warwick, UK

Title 
Magnetic Catalysts and Catalytic Magnets: Never the twain?

Maarten B. J. Roeffaers

2021 EFCATS Young Researcher Award

The Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, KU Leuven
Belgium

 
Title 
Nano-imaging chemical properties of zeolite catalysts
 

Radovan Šebesta

Comenius University in Bratislava
Slovak Republic

 
Title 
Green asymmetric organocatalysis
 

Štefan Vajda

Heyrovsky Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
 
Title 
Size- and Composition--Selected Subnanometer Cluster Catalysts in Oxidative Dehydrogenation and Hydrogenation Reactions

Federico Calle-Vallejo

2023 EFCATS Young Researcher Award

Ikerbasque Research Associate and a Visiting Professor
at the University of the Basque Country

 
Title 
On the structural sensitivity of platinum electrocatalysts

Stephan Andreas Schunk

2023 EFCATS Applied Catalysis Award

BASF SE and hte, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Title  
TBA
 
 

Arik Beck

2023 EFCATS Best PhD Thesis Award

Post-doctoral researcher, at the University of California,
at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the group of Professor Phil Christopher

Title
Pressure and temperature dependence of metallic zinc and partially reduced zinc oxide formation in copper-zinc-alumina catalysts – Limits of X-ray spectroscopy