WORK IN PROGRESS
Jorge Gascon, KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC) Director and Conference Chair
Jean M.J. Fréchet, Distinguished Professor, Chemical Science Senior Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Economic Development
In the coming decades the share of renewable energy in the energy mix will expand substantially in all parts of the world. This development is driven by the spectacular ongoing reduction in costs of solar and wind energy.
Sander van Bavel is currently program lead for the Long Range Research program Methane to Products at Shell
The selective methane conversion is environmentally and economically important, because it is a cheap resource and its flaring comes with a multi-billion dollar loss of value, while producing carbon dioxide.
Jeroen van Bokhoven is Professor at ETH, Zurich and Head of Laboratory for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry at Scherrer Institute
High-resolution imaging of electron beam-sensitive crystalline materials is one of the most difficult applications of transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The challenges are manifold, including the acquisition of images with an extremely low beam dose, the time-constrained search for crystal zone axes, the precise alignment of successive images, and the accurate determination of the defocus value.
Yu Han is Professor of Chemical Science at KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Multicomponent nanoparticles are important in many fields, including catalysis, magnetics, plasmonics, and electronics, due to the chemical and physical properties that arise from the interactions between their components.
Chad A. Mirkin is the Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology. He is Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and of Medicine at Northwestern University
The surface and interface of nanomaterials play important roles in determining their catalytic properties.
Nanfeng Zheng is a full Professor at Xiamen University, China
HCOOH can be selectively decomposed into CO free carbon dioxide and hydrogen.
Gabor Laurenczy is currently Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Head of the Group of Catalysis for Energy and Environment
CO2 is a key contributor to global warming and ocean acidification, and its recycling to valuable products by chemical conversion is an attractive research target.
Unni Olsbye is Professor and leader of the Catalysis Section at the Chemistry Department of the University of Oslo (UiO)
Power generation from combustion of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide (CO2) and contributes to rising greenhouse gas (GHG) levels in the atmosphere.
Khalid Almusaiteer, Senior Manager, CO2 Transformation, Sabic
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques have developed tremendously over the past decades, from unprecedented resolutions allowing atomic scale imaging to the development of in-situ cells allowing for imaging under gas or liquid environment [1-2]
Jovana Zecevic is currently Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Luigi Cavallo is Professor of Chemical Science at KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are an emerging class of solid-state materials built up from metal-based nodes and organic linkers.
Omar K. Farha is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, Distinguished Adjunct Professor at King Abdulaziz University, President of NuMat Technologies
The development of base metal catalysts for the synthesis of pharmaceutically relevant compounds continues an important goal of chemical research.
Ahmad Alshammari is Associate Professor of Chemistry at the National Research Center of Nanotechnology at KACST
Heterogeneous catalysis, a field important industrially and scientifically, is increasingly seeking and refining strategies to render itself more predictable.
Jean Marie Basset is a Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences and Engineering Division and was, from 2009 to 2017, the Director of the KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC)
Natural gas is the cleanest of fossil energy resources in terms of CO2 emissions per unit energy generated. Non-oxidative methane dehydroaromatization (MDA) over zeolite-supported Mo-carbides continues to be one of the most promising options for directly converting natural gas into aromatic hydrocarbons and hydrogen [1,2].
Emiel Hensen is full Professor inorganic materials chemistry and Dean of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry of the Eindhoven University of Technology
With the increase in global production of light alkanes, there is renewed interest in pathways for conversion of these feedstocks into building block chemicals.
Christopher Jones is Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and the Associate Vice President for Research at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
Some catalysts, especially at high temperatures, are known to produce radical species into the gas phase, generating a complex heterogeneous-homogeneous reaction network.
Kazuhiro Takanabe is Professor of Chemical Science at KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Transformation of syngas (CO/H2) derived from shale gas, biomass and coal has been developed as a promising alternative to oil to prepare liquid fuels and commodity chemicals.
Ding Ma is Professor at Peking University, China. He is the Advisory Member for various journals and has been Associate Editor for the catalysis journal of RSC, Catalysis Science & Technology since 2014
Multiphase catalytic reactor operation, such as Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, is often carried out in a packed bed or slurry bubble column. The performance of such a reactor system is the result of the subtle interplay of hydrodynamics, energy and mass transport phenomena, thermodynamics and reaction kinetics at the operation conditions
Frederick Kapteijn is currently Professor and leader of the Catalysis Engineering section at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
There is a worldwide resurgence of interest in crude to chemicals (C2C) technologies driven by crude oil producer’s desire to diversify outlets for crude oil and to capture the increasing growth in petrochemicals.
Wei Xu is a research science consultant of Saudi Aramco. He is currently leading the Chemicals R&D Laboratory of Saudi Aramco and R&D Satellite center at KAUST
A number of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) employ Zr6O8 clusters as secondary building units (e.g., the UiO-6n series, NU-901, and NU-1000).
Christopher Cramer is a Distinguished McKnight and University Teaching Professor at University of Minnesota. He is also Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Science & Engineering
In the preceding decades, numerous challenges in heterogeneous catalysis have been overcome through the development and improvement of new spectroscopy techniques e.g. Microscopy, DRIFT, EXAFS, XANES and solid state NMR (SS) spectroscopy.
Anissa Bendjeriou-Sedjerari is Research Scientist at KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Hydrogen-based fuel cells for automotive and stationary applications are gaining increased attention for various reasons including their higher efficiencies and lower emissions.
Sai P. Katikaneni is presently working as research Science Consultant at Carbon Management R&D Division, R&D Center, Saudi Aramco
Spectroscopies are experimental techniques that investigate the interaction between matter and a particle beam (photons, neutrons, electrons, or ions), by monitoring the sample response as a function of the energy of the incoming or outcoming beam(s).
Silvia Bordiga is Full Prof. in Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Torino. Since 2012 she is also Prof. II at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Oslo
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are attracting the attention of many scientists because of their high selectivity in gas separations, catalytic activity, and magnetic properties.
Laura Gagliardi is currently a Distinguished McKnight Professor at Minnesota University
A general overview of the use of plant extracts from Pulicaria glutinosa and Salvadora persica, available locally in Saudi Arabia used as green echo friendly reductants in the preparation of metal nanoparticles of silver and palladium will be presented.
Mohammed R. Siddiqui is a full Professor, Department of Chemistry, at King Saud University, Riyadh
In 2013, the estimated world population of 7.14 billion people consumed 13.6 Gtoe of energy (at an average rate of 18.0 TW).
Kuo-Wei Huang is Professor of Chemical Science at KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions reach >30 gigaton per year. CO2 is known to be a greenhouse gas and partly responsible for global climate change. Society, enterprises, governmental and non-governmental institutions are sensible to this fact and are working to find remediation to the global chal-lenge of reducing CO2 emissions.
Senior Scientist @ Total Research & Technology Feluy, Total Refining & Chemicals, Belgium.
Jorge Gascon, Kaust Catalysis Center (KCC) Director and Conference Chair