The future needs of the planet in terms of energy and environment place catalysis at the forefront of many scientific domains. The opportunities for catalysis are quite broad in terms of carbon and hydrogen management. Among the topics, which deserve strong attention, are light hydrocarbon activation and utilization, CO2 activation and utilization, hydrogen generation and utilization, and new developments in these areas of energy and environment. There is obviously a need for a very deep scientific approach in this field of catalysis, whether it is homogeneous, heterogeneous, photo initiated, fundamental or applied etc… Almost no catalytic reaction is fully selective and the resulting impact on energy and environment is huge.
The KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC), which opened early 2011, is based on a multidisciplinary approach of catalysis. It dedicates its research in these broad areas of carbon and hydrogen management inside the main thrusts of energy and environment. After three years of successful operation, it is timely to celebrate our scientific achievements with a symposium dedicated on these two topics.
All members of the KAUST research community as well as external industry partners and Saudi Universities are invited to attend this important event.
List of the speakers:
Jean-Marie Basset, KCC Director, KAUST
Atieh Abu Raqabah, SABIC, Saudi Arabia
Lutz Ackermann, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Reiner Anwander, University of Tübingen, Germany
Matthias Beller, Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, University of Rostock, Germany
Aditya Bhan, University of Minnesota, USA
Vincenzo Busico, Frederico II University, Italy
Luigi Cavallo, KAUST
Gabriel Centi, University of Messina, Italy
Ya-Huei (Cathy) Chin, University of Toronto, Canada
Bas de Bruin, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kazunari Domen, University of Tokyo, Japan
Jorg Eppinger, KAUST
Valery Fokin, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
Christian Freund, Frei Universitat Berlin, Germany
Bruce Gates, University of California, Davis, USA
Stan Golunski, Cardiff University, UK
Robert H. Grubbs, CalTech, USA
Christopher Jones, Georgia Tech, USA
Nikos Hadjichristidis, KAUST
Wolfgang Herrmann, Technische Universität München, Germany
Kuo-Wei Huang, KAUST
Guo-Xin Jin, Fudan University, China
Shu Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Aiwen Lei, Wuhan University, China
Walter Leitner, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Johannes Lercher, Technische Universität München, Germany
Can Li, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China
Tobin Marks, Northwestern University , USA
Robert Morris, University of Toronto, Canada
Helene Olivier-Bourbigou, IFP, Energies Nouvelles, France
Takashi Ooi, Nagoya University, Japan
L Petrov, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
Erwin Reisner, University of Cambridge, UK
Valentin Rodionov, KAUST
Magnus Rueping, Professor, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Joachim Sauer, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany
Bert Sels, Professor, Leuven University, Belgium
Kazuhiro Takanabe, KAUST
Xinchen Wang, Fuzhou University, China
Robert M. Waymouth, Stanford University, USA
Jackie Y. Ying , Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore