EFCATS Awardees 2013

EFCATS BP APPLIED CATALYSIS AWARD (sponsored by BP): Prof. Ulrich MUELLER

EFCATS BP Applied Catalysis Award has nominated Prof. Ulrich Mueller as the 2013 recipient from a cadre of very talented and worthy nominees. With his international team of researchers he developed, implemented and started the fabrication of titanozeolite based catalysts supplying world-scale epoxidation plants to make propylene oxide from propylene and hydrogen peroxide. In emission control catalysis the synthesis of artificial chabazite... more

EFCATS BEST PhD THESIS AWARD: Dr. Ceri HAMMOND

The EFCATS Best PhD Thesis Award 2013 has been awarded ex aequo to Matteo Carganelo and Ceri Hammond. Ceri Hammond's thesis on the topic of methane partial oxidation to methanol demonstrated the application of a wide range of synthesis, analytical characterisation and mechanistic analysis to make real progress in an extremely difficult area. The work showed that low temperature activation of methane for partial oxidation can be made highly... more

EFCATS BEST PhD THESIS AWARD: Dr. Matteo CARGNELLO

The EFCATS Best PhD Thesis Award 2013 has been awarded ex aequo to Matteo Carganelo and Ceri Hammond. Carganelo's thesis focused on the topics of the development of innovative ways to prepare catalytic materials by assembly of precise building blocks into hierarchical structures. This study demonstrated the function and stability of the new materials. He contributed to the preparation of core-shell structures that he demonstrated to be... more

EFCATS YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD (sponsored by BASF): Prof. Javier PEREZ-RAMIREZ

The EFCATS Young Researcher's Award 2013 has been awarded to Prof. Javier Pérez-Ramírez from the ETH Zurich. This award recognizes Professor Pérez-Ramírez' seminal contributions to the field of heterogeneous catalysis. In particular, his groundbreaking work in the rational design of hierarchical zeolites for catalytic applications and the development of novel catalysts for chlorine production is acknowledged. Javier Pérez-Ramírez, born in... more

Francois-Gault-Lectureship 2013 awarded to Johannes Lercher

Professor Johannes Lercher has been named the recipient of the 2013 Francois Gault Lectureship Award, Europe's highest honor in catalysis. Lercher is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Technische Universität München in Munich, Germany and Director of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Institute for Integrated Catalysis, USA. The award is given in recognition of his ground-breaking contributions to the understanding of... more