Speakers

Keynote Speakers

We are glad to announce the confirmation for the following keynote lectures by

Prof. Karsten Reuter

Talk: Out of the Crystalline Comfort Zone: ML-Empowered Modelling of Operando Energy Conversion Systems

The fusion with modern data sciences significantly boosts the capabilities of predictive-quality multiscale modeling and simulation. Karsten Reuter, director of the Theory Department at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, uses multiscale modelling and simulation to probe catalytic processes at surfaces and interfaces. In his talk, Reuter will illustrate this for the energy conversion context, where the highly dynamic behavior of the active interfaces hitherto limits the development of performance catalysts, electrolyzers or batteries.

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Prof. Marcella Bonchio

Talk: tba

Marcella Bonchio is Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Chemical Sciences of the University of Padua, where she was Vice Rector for Research from 2015 to 2021. She is Scientific Coordinator of the Institute of Membrane Technology, (ITM-CNR), section of Padova. She received the Ph.D. in Organic Physical Chemistry in 1993, also attending Brown University laboratories (RI, USA). In the post-doctoral period she was associate researcher at the laboratories of Prof. John T. Groves in Princeton (NJ, USA). She is member of European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) since 2020. Her research interests focus on bio-inspired photo-catalytic processes, functional nanomaterials and reaction mechanisms. Her contribution in the field of molecular metal oxides concerns the design of new methods for the synthesis and self-assembly of dynamic and photo-reactive supramolecular structures that mimic the function of natural photosystems. She was awarded the 2011 National Research Award of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI), and the Lombardy International Award is Research 2021. She has recently received the Gold Medal Mangini of The Italian National Society and the 2022 Gonzalez-Ciamician prize awarded by the Real Sociedad Española de Química, RSEQ in recognition of the innovative vision on the conversion of solar energy.

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Prof. Walter Leitner

Talk: „Power-to-X“ – Activation and Transfer of Hydrogen for the Selective Conversion of Renewable Carbon Sources to Fuels and Chemicals

Walter Leitner, director of the MPI CEC, is a chemist and scientist in the field of molecular catalysis. He is chair holder at RWTH Aachen for the chair of industrial chemistry and petrochemistry. In his research, he deals with basic research to understand molecular principles of catalysis as basis for handling catalytic processes at the interface between energy and chemistry. This includes research in the field of metal organic catalysis and “green chemistry” related topics like the use of CO2 as C1 building block or the selective conversion of biomass-based raw materials. These results may then be used for the production of synthetic fuels, chemical intermediates or fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals.

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Prof. Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt

Talk: tba

Prof. Dr. Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt is a full professor and director at the Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry (ITCP) and the Institute for Catalysis Research and Technology (IKFT) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. His current research focuses, among other things, on the development of new catalysts and reactors under dynamic conditions for energy storage and conversion. Prof. Grunwaldt’s team also uses a wide range of techniques for the production of fine chemicals and emission control starting from design, testing, processing to operando spectroscopy and characterization. He is presently chair of the Committee “Research with Synchreotron Radiation” (KFS), member of the board of GeCATS and German delegate in the European and International Catalysis Societies EFCATS and IACS.

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Prof. Kristina Tschulik

Talk: Can we improve electrocatalyst design by advancing our electrochemical toolbox?

Prof. Dr. Tschulik holds the chair for Analytical Chemistry II – Electrochemistry and Nanoscale Materials at Ruhr Universität Bochum. Her teams main research activities are in the development and application of single nanoparticle electrochemsitry and of spectro-electrochemical techniques to identify reaction mechanism and catalyst transformations under operation conditions. This approach gives Dr. Tschulik and her group rare insights into electrocatalysis, battery materials and nanoparticle degradation pathways. They use their in-depth knowledge for post-synthetic modification of electrocataysts for energy conversion applications and the design of electrochemical sensors for environmental and industrial monitorings.

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Invited Speakers

Prof. Monica Perez Temprano

Talk: Deciphering Mechanisms to Design Better Catalytic Reactions

Prof. Katrin F. Domke

Talk: Molecular insights into electrochemical reactive sites

Dr. Sven Reichenberger

Talk: tba

Dr. Alicia Casitas

Talk: An organometallic perspective to first-row transition metal catalysis: searching for unconventional reactivity patterns

Dr. Patricia Rodríguez Maciá

Talk: Developing Semi-synthetic and Artificial Metallo-enzymes for Energy Conversion: From Catalytic Insight to Catalyst Design

Industry Speakers

Dr. Nils Bottke

Dr. Mingquan Yu

Hrishikesh Joshi

 

 

 

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