EFCATS Awardees 2015

Xile Hu, Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne has been selected as the recipient of the 2015 EFCATS Young Researcher Award

We are pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2015 EFCATS Young Researchers Award, sponsored by BASF and administered by the European Federation of Catalysis Societies is Xile Hu, Professor at the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The Award will be presented at Europacat XII (Kazan, Russia, August 2015).

This Award recognizes individual contributions in the field... more

Iacovos Vasalos, Professor Emeritus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Emeritus Director of CPERI has been selected as the recipient of the 2015 EFCATS Applied Catalysis Award

We are pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2015 EFCATS Applied Catalysis Award, sponsored by BP and administered by the European Federation of Catalysis Societies, is Iacovos Vasalos, Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1979-2005) and Emeritus Researcher at the Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas. The Award will be... more

Klaas Jan Schouten, graduated from Leiden University has been selected as the recipient of the 2015 EFCATS Best PhD Thesis Award

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Klaas Jan Schouten, who has graduated from Leiden University, The Netherlands, and was guided by Prof. Marc Koper is the recipient of the 2015 EFCATS Best PhD Award, administered by the European Federation of Catalysis Societies. The Award will be presented at Europacat XII (Kazan, Russia, August 2015).  

This Award recognizes the best PhD Thesis in the field of catalysis with emphasis... more

Joachim Sauer, Professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin has been selected as the recipient of the 2015 Francois Gault Lectureship

We are pleased to announce that Professor Joachim Sauer of the Humboldt University Berlin is the recipient of the 2015 EFCTAS Francois Gault Lectureship administered by the European Federation of Catalysis Societies. This Award recognizes individual groundbreaking contributions to catalysis.

Professor Sauer is being specifically recognized for his contributions to the atomistic understanding of catalysis by zeolites and supported... more

Prof. Michel Che, University of Paris VI: Pierre et Marie Curie was awarded the prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry's Faraday Lectureship Prize, and received the Faraday medal in a ceremony in Cardiff.

As part of the award Prof. Michel Che was invited to give a series of lectures in the UK.

On Monday 26th January Professor Michel Che of the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6 & Institut Universitaire de France gave his 2014 Faraday Lecture at the School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, UK. The title of his lecture was "Relevance of Geochemistry to the Life of a Catalyst: When Fire Meets Water." After the lecture Professor... more

Hajo Freund of the Fritz Haber Institute has been selected as the recipient of the 2015 Michel Boudart Award for the Advancement of Catalysis

We are pleased to announce that Professor Hans Joachim Freund of the Fritz Haber Institute is the recipient of the 2015 Michel Boudart for the Advancement of Catalysis, sponsored by the Haldor Top-søe Company and administered jointly by the North American Catalysis Society and the European Fed-eration of Catalysis Societies. The Award will be presented at the 24th North American Meeting of the Catalysis Society (Pittsburgh, June 2015) and... more