The Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Blocks Consortium is a Dutch national research center that investigates chemical building blocks for novel sustainable materials. It is a public-private organization in which academic, industrial and governmental partners are cooperating intensively. Its research projects focus on three themes: Functional materials & specialties, coatings and energy carriers. Prof. Bert Weckhuysen is one of the initiators of this grand project and current programme director.
ARC CBBC
Head of the group - Distinguished university professor
prof. dr. ir. Bert Weckhuysen
Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis - Utrecht University+31 30 253 4328
B.M.Weckhuysen@uu.nl
The central research theme of the Weckhuysen group is the development of structure-activity relationships and expert systems in the field of heterogeneous catalysis and materials science with special emphasis on the development and use of advanced in situ characterization techniques.
Associate and assistant professors
dr. Eline Hutter
Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis - Utrecht UniversityRoom - Vening Meinesz-C
E.M.Hutter@uu.nl
Eline Hutter uses advanced spectroscopic and structural characterization to investigate the relationship between the optoelectronic and structural properties of semiconductor materials (a.o. perovskites) and their activity and selectivity as photocatalysts. >
PhD candidates
Mirjam de Graaf
Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis - Utrecht UniversityRoom - Vening Meinesz-C, 2.08
M.E.deGraaf1@uu.nl
Mirjam de Graaf is PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Weckhuysen and Dr. Eline Hutter. Her research focuses on developing a coating for the removal of harmful and/or odorous >
Daan Groefsema
Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis - Utrecht UniversityRoom - David de Wied, 4th floor study area
D.W.Groefsema@uu.nl
The focus of Daan's project is the (further) development of Luminescence Thermometry and shell-isolated nanoparticle enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SHINERS), ultimately leading to a widely applicable analytical toolset for operando spectroscopy >
Sebastian Haben
Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis - Utrecht UniversityRoom - David de Wied, 4th floor study area
S.Haben@uu.nl
Through the utilization and development of various spectroscopic techniques, I aim to investigate the methane dehydro-aromatization (MDA) reaction using metal-modified zeolites as solid catalysts. This project is part of the ARC >
Kordula Schnabl
Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis - Utrecht UniversityRoom - David de Wied, 5th floor study area
K.B.Schnabl@uu.nl
Kordula will work on the controlled catalytic breakdown of humin and chitin to waterborne building blocks for coatings, including spatially-resolved spectroscopy of film formation and drying processes.
Bas Terlingen
Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis - Utrecht UniversityRoom - Vening Meinesz-B 4.44
B.J.P.Terlingen@uu.nl
For AkzoNobel, the project concerns the re-use of the by-product hydrochloric acid to generate valuable compounds, thereby aiming to close the raw material loop, to reduce the carbon footprint and >
Sophie van Vreeswijk
Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis - Utrecht UniversityRoom - David de Wied, 4th floor study area
S.H.vanVreeswijk@uu.nl
In this research project, several non-commodity zeolite framework structures are investigated as examples of small molecule activation processes. To gather detailed physicochemical insights of these materials, a wide variety of >
Florian Zand
Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis - Utrecht UniversityRoom - David de Wied, 5th floor study area
F.Zand@uu.nl
In his project, Florian will focus on the characterization of bimetallic catalysts, including their size, structure and composition during synthesis and CO2 hydrogenation.
Support Staff
Hannie van Berlo-van den Broek
Advanced Research Center-Chemical Building Blocks ConsortiumRoom - Vening Meinesz-B 4.50
J.M.vanBerlo-vandenBroek@uu.nl
Hannie van Berlo-van den Broek is research technician at the Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Blocks Consortium.
Anne-Lot de Heus
Advanced Research Center-Chemical Building Blocks ConsortiumRoom - Vening Meinesz-C
A.R.deHeus@arc-cbbc.nl
Anne-Lot de Heus works as a communications officer at ARC CBBC.
dr. Maurice Mourad
Advanced Research Center-Chemical Building Blocks ConsortiumRoom - Vening Meinesz-C
M.C.D.Mourad@uu.nl
Maurice Mourad is program coordinator and business developer for ARC CBBC.
dr. Ramon Oord
Advanced Research Center-Chemical Building Blocks ConsortiumRoom - Vening Meinesz-B 4.50
+31 6 39 015 426
R.Oord@uu.nl
Ramon Oord works as Research and Education Assistant at ARC CBBC.