PhD Defense Robin Vogel: Once Upon a Lifetime: Dynamics of Raman Scattering and Luminescence of Solid Catalysts at Work

Congratulations to Dr. Robin Vogel for an Excellent PhD Defense, who successfully defended his PhD thesis, supervised by Prof. Bert Weckhuysen and Dr. Freddy Rabouw. In his PhD thesis, Robin has explored how industrial catalysts used in hydrocarbon conversion become deactivated by carbon deposits. Using time-resolved spectroscopy, he studied how laser light interacts with catalysts

Sibylle Schwartmann Received the Green Chemistry Best PhD Talk Award at the International Conference on Renewable Resources & Biorefineries

We congratulate Sibylle Schwartmann on receiving the Best PhD Talk award of RSC Green Chemistry at the International Conference on Renewable Resources & Biorefineries (RRB 2025) in Turku/Åbo, Finland, June 2-4, 2025, for her lecture “Electro-Oxidation of β-O-4 Model Compounds Monitored in a Chamber-Separated Cell via In Situ ATR-IR Spectroscopy”. Sibylle presented her research on

Mariangela Biggiero Received the Best Poster Prize at the Electrochemistry National Symposium

We congratulate Mariangela Biggiero on receiving the best poster prize at the Electrochemistry National Symposium for her poster “Development of in situ ATR-IR spectroscopy for interfacial characterization of industrial catalysts and binders during CO2 electroreduction”. In this poster, Mariangela presented an in situ Attenuated Total Reflectance Infrared (ATR-IR) spectroscopy approach that bridges fundamental characterization techniques

Celebrating a Decade of Multiscale Catalysis Science & Technology Research : MCEC’s Final Symposium

On April 15th, 2025, researchers gathered in Rotterdam to celebrate the 10-year journey of the Multiscale Catalytic Energy Conversion (MCEC) research center — a decade of interdisciplinary research, collaboration, and innovation. MCEC is a Gravitation Program, which has been funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) with financial support from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. The Final