Speakers 2025

Confirmed speakers at Catalysis Connected 2025:

Plenary speakers

Bert Weckhuysen


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Katalin Barta

A bright future for biorefining through efficient lignocellulose fractionation and creative product design
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Veronique van Speybroeck

Multiscale Approaches from Molecular Design to Industrial Application: The Role of Machine Learning in Optimizing Catalytic Processes
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Jeroen van Bokhoven

Methanol to Olefins, from zeolite structure to mechanism and improved performance
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Matthias Beller

Green carbonylation reactions - Can they make an impact in the chemical industry of the future?
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Keynote speakers

An Verberckmoes

Advancing lignin valorization through specialized analysis, catalyst development and process optimization
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Stephan Schunk

Why the use of AI in Catalysis requires Community Efforts: Homestory summarizing 5 Years of intense Collaboration
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Gerhard Mestl

“Has ever an in-situ spectrum improved a catalyst?” (n.n.)
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Feng Ju

CO2, Plastic Waste and Biomass Conversion in Fluid Catalytic Cracking Process: towards the refinery of the future
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Matthijs Ruitenbeek

Path2Zero – It’s not (yet) easy being green
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Annelie Jongerius

Plastic from CO2: Developing new chemical processes to make the High-Performing and Biodegradable Materials of the future
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Nils Bottke

Jetting Towards Sustainability: Tackling Obstacles in Methanol-Based Aviation Fuel
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Track speakers

Songbo He

Catalytic pyrolysis of biomass to bio-based aromatics
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Nong Artrith

Machine Learning for Catalyst Design: Insights from Ethanol Reforming and Oxygen Evolution Reaction
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Marco Altomare


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Ivo Filot

Multiscale Modeling of Nanoparticle Catalysis Using Machine Learning and Artificial Neural Networks
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Bettina Baumgartner

A Multi-Spectroscopic Approach to Study Photo-Active Metal-Organic Frameworks
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Jochem van de Minkelis

Catalytic Pyrolysis of Polyethylene with Microporous and Mesoporous Materials: Assessing Performance and Mechanistic Understanding
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Angela Melcherts

It Takes Two to Tango: The Two-Stage Thermocatalytic Conversion of CO2 into Aromatics
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Joyce Kromwijk

It Takes Two to Tango: The Two-Stage Thermocatalytic Conversion of CO2 into Aromatics
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Carolin Rieg

Advanced characterization methods for coke deposits on Ni-Mo/Al2O3 and Ni/Al2O3 extrudates for the catalytic upgrading of fast pyrolysis bio-oil
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Tessa de Koning Gans

Electrochemical Epoxidation of Alkenes using Hollow Fiber Electrodes
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César Pernalete

Hydroprocessing pyrolysis oil from waste mixed polyolefins: experimental and kinetic study
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Sofie Ferwerda

Spatiotemporal Evolution of Ni Oxidation State of Ni-Mg-Al Catalysts During Dry Methane Reforming
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Parviz Yazdani

Dynamic Behavior of Sr species in Sr/La2O3 under Oxidative Coupling of Methane
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Lukas Buelens

Performance of Ni-CaO-CeO2 Dual Functional Materials for Integrated CO2 Capture and Utilization
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Arturo Pajares

3D-Printed Catalysts for CO₂ Methanation: Effects of Design Parameters
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Sebastian Rejman

Executable Manuscripts as Jupyter Notebooks: The Next Evolution in Scientific Publishing?
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Eva Harsevoort

Renewable and Intrinsically Recyclable Polymers: Ring-Opening Polymerization of Furan Diels-Alder Adducts
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