JPR receives the Award for Excellence in Natural Gas Conversion for his contributions towards carbon neutrality via CO2 utilization
Farewell to Dr. Georgios Giannakakis who leaves the group
Dr. Zihao Zhang joins the group as a postdoc and Elisavet Tazedaki as a Master Thesis student
Tudor Toderasc joins the group as a Master Thesis student
Farewell to Dr. Matteo Vanni who leaves the group
Our study 'Quantitative description of metal center organization and interactions in single atom catalysts' is published in Advanced Materials
aCe celebrates Christmas by welcoming Catalina as our new group mascot
Farewell to Dr. Dario Faust Akl who leaves the group
Adam Yung-Tai Chiang joins the group as a PhD student
Successful PhD defense by Dario Faust Akl October 11, 2023
Successful PhD defense by Thaylan Pinheiro Araújo October 4, 2023
Farewell to Dr. Kevin Rossi who leaves the group and joins TU Delft
Gian Marco Potros Beshara rejoins the group as a PhD student
Our study 'Evidence of bifunctionality of carbons and metal atoms in catalyzed acetylene hydrochlorination' is published in Nature Communications
Iris Nogueroles Langa and Dennis Ciliak join the group as Master Thesis students
Our study 'Geminal atom catalysis for cross-coupling' is published in Nature
aCe delegation at EuropaCat 2023 in Prague
Thomas Moragues wins the Best Oral Presentation award in the Analytical Sciences section at the SCS Fall Meeting 2023
Andrea Ruiz Ferrando joins as a visiting PhD student from ICIQ, Tarragona
Dr. Kevin Rossi wins Best Talk Award for his joint contribution with Andrea Ruiz Ferrando at the NCCR Catalysis annual retreat in Luzern
Katia Chikri, Sok Ho Chong, and Xiaoyu Jin join the group as students
Director Prof. Javier Pérez-Ramírez explains why we need to switch to sustainable chemicals production urgently and how we approach this within the NCCR Catalysis program
Gian Marco Potros Beshara joins the group as a student
Marc Eduard Usteri rejoins the group as a PhD student
Dr. Kevin Rossi joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher and Gabriela Dutcă as a Master Thesis student under the NCCR Talents program
Farewell to Dr. Florentine Strudwick who leaves the group
Wiktoria Wnętkowska joins the group as a student
Our study 'Flame-made ternary Pd-In2O3-ZrO2 catalyst with enhanced oxygen vacancy generation for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol' is published in Nature Communications
Successful PhD defence by Florentine Strudwick September 21, 2022
Ivan Surin is awarded a fellowship through the ETH Talent Program in Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry sponsored by Clariant
Dr. Qingxin Yang joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher and Zaira Ruiz Bernal as a visiting PhD student from the University of Alicante
Our study 'Elucidation of radical- and oxygenate-driven paths in zeolite-catalyzed conversion of methanol and methyl chloride to hydrocarbons' is published in Nature Catalysis
Our study 'Long-chain hydrocarbons via CO2 electroreduction enabled by polarized nickel catalysts ' is published in Nature Catalysis
The methanol team at aCe wins the 2022 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Horizon Prize: John Jeyes Award together with partners at TotalEnergies, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia and Paul Scherrer Institute
Our article 'Performance descriptors of nanostructured metal catalysts for acetylene hydrochlorination' is published in Nature Nanotechnology
Dr. Phil Preikschas and Dr. Matteo Vanni join the group as post-doctoral researchers
Farewell to Drs. Simon Büchele and Ali Saadun who leave the group
jpr receives an award from Zhejiang NHU Company Ltd for the discovery of catalytic processes leading to sustainable manufacture of chemicals.
Successful PhD defense by Simon Büchele November 24, 2021
Vera Giulimondi wins a poster prize at the Catalysis Science & Technology 10th Anniversary Symposium
Successful PhD defense by Ali J. Saadun November 03, 2021
Farewell to Dr. Cecilia Mondelli who leaves the group
Georgios Marnieros and Marc Eduard Usteri join the group as students
Dr. Yuzhen Ge and Dr. Georgios Giannakakis join the group as post-doctoral researchers
Dario Faust Akl wins the award for the best virtual poster in Catalysis Science and Engineering at the SCS Fall Meeting 2021
Javier is announced as the recipient of the 2021 Robert K. Grasselli Award for Catalysis of the European Federation of Catalysis Societies
Manu Suvarna joins the group as a PhD student
Successful PhD defense by Selina Kaiser March 24, 2021
Anton Dimitrov, Asbjörn Rasmussen, Marc Eduard Usteri, and Ivan Surin join the group as students
Successful PhD defense by Matthias Frei January 13, 2021
Clemens Wöllhaf joins the group as a student
Our research on nanoscale engineering of catalytic materials for sustainable technologies is highlighted by Chemistry World
Our review 'Nanoscale engineering of catalytic materials for sustainable technologies' is published in Nature Nanotechnology
Our article 'Key role of chemistry versus bias in electrocatalytic oxygen evolution' is published in Nature
Vera Giulimondi joins the group as a PhD student
Javier joins the advisory board of Chem Catalysis (Cell Press), a premier journal publishing innovative and insightful research on fundamental and applied catalysis
Tangsheng Zou joins the group as a PhD student and Zhenchen Tang as a post-doctoral researcher
Simon Büchele wins the award for the best virtual poster in Catalysis Science and Engineering at the SCS Fall Meeting, held this year online
Javier wins for the third time the individual tournament at the Tennisclub Riesbach with a resounding 6:0 6:0 in the final
Javier reaches the final at the Belvoir Cup, which had to abandon due to abdominal injury
Shibashish Jaydev joins the group as a PhD student
Javier participates in a discussion about the future of oil refinery in Switzerland broadcasted in the SRF program Echo der Zeit
Farewell to Dr. Begoña Puértolas Lacambra who leaves the group
ETH goes to online teaching due to COVID-19 - here Javier is ready to teach Heterogeneous Reaction Engineering
Our article 'Nanostructuring unlocks high performance of platinum single-atom catalysts for stable vinyl chloride production' is published in Nature Catalysis
Javier is named Distinguished Lecturer at the College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Farewell to Dr. Evgeniya Vorobyeva who leaves the group
Javier in the doctoral defense of Riming Wang at Delft University of Technology (first picture during the opposition, second congratulating the young doctor)
Javier delivers an invited seminar at the Faculty of Applied Sciences, TU Delft, Netherlands
Farewell to Dr. Zupeng Chen who leaves the group
The NCCR Sustainable Chemical Processes through Catalysis, which jpr will direct, is officially accepted
Successful PhD defense by Guido Zichittella 11 December 2019
Successful PhD defense by Harris Ho Ting Luk 4 December 2019
Javier delivers a seminar at the School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin
Successful PhD defense by Evgeniya Vorobyeva 20 November 2019
Javier participates as an invited speaker at the Cell Symposium: Next-Generation Materials for Energy Applications held at Xiamen University, China
Our cover in Nanoscale was selected as one of the top covers published since the journal launch in 2009
Javier is invited speaker and panelist at the Nature Research Round Table on Energy Materials for Sustainability, organized by Nature Research and supported by the Beijing Science and Technology Cooperation Center
Javier is distinguished lecturer at the Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Dario Faust Akl joins the group as a PhD student
Farewell to Drs. Ronghe Lin and Vladimir Paunovic who leave the group
Successful PhD defense by Matthias Scharfe 30 October 2019
Our research on single-atom catalysis is highlighted by Chemistry World
Max Hülsey joins the group as an academic guest
Eva Perkovic joins the group as a PhD student and James Lüthi joins as a student
Sharon delivers an invited lecture at HiMat 2019, Erlangen, Germany
Javier gives an overview of ENERGY-X at the SUNRISE: Swiss Stakeholder Workshop help at EMPA Dübendorf
Our article 'Plant-to-planet analysis of CO2-based methanol processes' is published in Energy & Environmental Science
Javier delivers a plenary lecture at the 4th EuCheMS Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry in Tarragona, Spain
Javier wins the individual and doubles (with Erik) tennis tournament at the Akademische Tennisclub Zürich
Matthias Frei and Evgeniya Vorobyeva (pictured) win the best and runner up poster prizes in Catalysis Science and Engineering at the SCS Fall Meeting, Zurich
Javier delivers a plenary talk at the 20th Brazilian Catalysis Conference in São Paulo, Brazil
Javier wins the individual tournament at the Tennisclub Riesbach
Kyle Stephens joins the group as a PhD student and Marion Short as a student
Cecilia delivers talks on green methanol synthesis and glycerol biorefinery analysis at Europacat 2019 in Aachen, Germany
Congratulations to Dr. Vladimir Paunović who receives the 2019 EFCATS Best PhD Thesis Award
Javier delivers an invited lecture on heterogeneous catalyst design at the SHINE (Sunshine into New Energy) workshop hosted by the Green Energy Program of the National University of Singapore.
Our article 'Atomic-scale engineering of indium oxide promotion by palladium for methanol production via CO2 hydrogenation' is published in Nature Communications
Congratulations to Vladimir Paunović who has been announced as the recipient of the 2019 EFCATS Best PhD Thesis Award
A group of students of Zhejiang University visited NUS and jpr introduced them sustainable chemistry and catalysis
Congratulations to Vladimir Paunović, whose outstanding dissertation has been awarded the prestigious ETH medal
Our article 'Preserved in a shell: High-performance graphene-confined ruthenium nanoparticles in acetylene hydrochlorination' is published in Energy & Environmental Science
jpr delivers a keynote lecture entitled ‘Analysis of pore quality in hierarchical zeolite catalysts’ at the 19th International Zeolite Conference in Perth, Australia
Dr Vladimir Paunović receives the MaP award 2019
jpr at the prize ceremony
Javier delivers a plenary lecture at the 26th North American Catalysis Society in Chicago associated with the 2019 Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis. The lecture entitled ‘Frontiers in Catalysis Engineering for Sustainable Technologies’ was attended by ca. 1700 catalysis practitioners.
Jpr delivers a keynote lecture entitled ‘Halogen-mediated catalytic processes for natural gas upgrading’ at the 12th Natural Gas Conversion Symposium in San Antonio, USA
Javier was interviewed in celebration of his Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis 2019. Find out more about him in this Author Interview
Guido Zichittella delivers a TEDx talk entitled 'What connects empathy, eggs and chemical industry?' in Siracusa, Italy
jpr delivers an invited lecture at the XXXVII Biennial Meeting of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry in San Sebastian, Spain
A snapshot of our single-atom catalyst inspired baking to celebrate our recent publications in ACIE and ChemCatChem
Thaylan Pinheiro Araújo joins the group as a PhD student
Our article 'Halogen-dependent surface confinement governs selective alkane functionalization to olefins' is published in Angewandte Chemie
aCe participates in the kick-off of Energy-X in Prague. The initiative will build a strategic roadmap for Europe in the transition towards a carbon neutral society
James Lüthi and Dario Faust Akl join the group as students
Samuel Scheiber, Gabrijel Novak, Oliver Stiz, and Michelle Philipp join the group as students
Guido Zichittella is nominated as one of the 30 most influential scientists under the age of 30 by Forbes Magazine
Cecilia Mondelli guest-edits a virtual special issue of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering entitled “Catalytic Byproduct Valorization in Future Biorefineries” with Prof. Pieter C.A. Bruijnincx and Prof. Bert F. Sels
Farewell to Dr. Tatsuya Shinagawa who leaves the group
Javier visits the Center for Natural Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest and delivers a seminar on heterogeneous catalyst design
Javier delivers an invited lecture at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain
Javier appointed as new Editor-in-Chief of Catalysis Science & Technology, the catalysis flagship journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry
A delegation of Total S.A. headed by CTO Dr. Marie-Noëlle Semeria visits our laboratories
Javier delivers an invited lecture at the University of Bern for the seminar program of the Bernese Chemical Society
Javier is named Isaac Manasseh Meyer Chair Professor at the National University of Singapore. He will be spending 4 months over the next 2 years to direct the NUS Flagship Green Energy program, http://greenenergy.nus.edu.sg
Successful PhD defense by Davide Albani November 21 2018
Javier is announced as the recipient of the 2019 Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis of the North American Catalysis Society
Javier delivers an invited lecture at the Technical University of Munich for the lecture program of the Munich Chemical Society
Our first paper on the electrosynthesis of ammonia has been accepted in Chem. In the photo, the electro-team at aCe!
Javier delivers a plenary lecture on catalyst design at the 2nd Trans-Pyrenean Meeting in Catalysis held in Tarragona
Prof. Jorge Gascón (KAUST) and Javier co-organized the International Symposium of Catalysis Engineering at TUDelft on the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Freek Kapteijn. Javier gave a lecture at this event emphasizing catalyst design principles for sustainable technologies.
Evgeniya Vorobyeva delivers a talk and Selina Kaiser wins Best Poster Prize at the annual meeting of the Sustainable Chemistry Division of the German Chemical Society in Aachen, Germany
Javier delivers a keynote lecture at the annual meeting of the Sustainable Chemistry Division of the German Chemical Society in Aachen, Germany
With a dramatic final match lasting more than 3 h (4:6 6:3 6:4), Javier wins the Lerchenberg Herbst Trophy in Zurich
Javier discusses aspects on heterogeneous catalyst design at the Syngenta Chemistry Lecture in Stein, Switzerland
The invited talk by Cecilia Mondelli at the 256th ACS National Meeting & Exposition in Boston is nominated as the ‘Best Presentation’ of her session on ‘Water (The Greenest Solvent): Catalysis in Aqueous & Bi-Phase Systems’
Javier delivers the lecture ‘Transformative chemistry for the grand energy challenge’ at the workshop Tackling the CO2 challenge held at the National University of Singapore
Guido Zichittella wins the best poster presentation in Catalysis Science and Engineering at the SCS Fall Meeting
Prof. David Phillips, former president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, presents Prof. Javier Pérez-Ramírez with the 2017 Sustainable Energy Award. Javier delivers a lecture within the event ‘Mitigating waste’ at Burlington House in London.
Our single-atom catalyst for Suzuki couplings is highlighted by the St.Galler Tagblatt
Javier lectures at the Summer School 'Power to X: Fundamentals and Applications of Modern Electrosynthesis' in Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland
Javier is honored with the Zhang Dayu Young Investigator Lectureship at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
jpr attends the 2nd International Forum on Clean Energy in Dalian, China.
Javier delivers a plenary lecture at the 4th International Symposium on the Catalysis for Clean Energy and Sustainable Chemistry in Bilbao, Spain
Clara Eisebraun joins the group as a PhD student
Farewell to Ferdy Coumans who leaves the group
Our article 'Selective ensembles in supported palladium sulfide nanoparticles for alkyne semi-hydrogenation' is published in Nature Communications. Read more at the Nature research Chemistry blog
Javier delivers a lecture at the EFCATS School on Catalysis, Liblice Castle, Czech Republic
Our article 'Structure–performance descriptors and the role of Lewis acidity in the methanol-to-propylene process' is published in Nature Chemistry. Read more at the Nature research Chemistry blog
Cecilia Mondelli delivers lecture at the SCS Seminar Catalysis Across Scales, Switzerland
Javier is honored with the Xing Da Lectureship at Peking University, China
Javier delivers a lecture at the Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University, China
Florentine Veenstra joins the group as a PhD student
Our article 'Evidence of radical chemistry in catalytic methane oxybromination' is published in Nature Catalysis
Our recent article in Nature Communications on the microfabrication of electrodes to understand interfacial effects in copper-based CO2 reduction catalysts is highlighted by C&EN
Javier delivers a lecture at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Fribourg
Los Payasos de la Tele visited aCe and performed at Vladimir’s PhD party
Successful PhD defense by Vladimir Paunović April 4, 2018
Javier delivered a plenary lecture in the workshop Sunshine in a Barrel at the National University of Singapore. He also participated in the panel discussion Green Earth and Vibrant Economies – Challenges and Opportunities.
Farewell to Gastón Larrazábal who leaves the group
Javier presents recent results on catalyst design for natural gas, carbon dioxide, and biomass valorization as well as single-atom catalysis at the Universities of Aberdeen, Aston, and Oxford as part of a UK lecture tour associated with the 2017 Sustainable Energy award of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Farewell to Martin Artusi who leaves the group
aCe team up with partners across Europe in the Energy-X initiative to develop technologies for a renewable future European energy and chemical production landscape
Our article 'Environmental and economical perspectives of a glycerol biorefinery' is published in Energy & Environmental Science
Antonio presenting progress at an a-leaf meeting in Castellon, Spain
Farewell to Flurina Attinger and Dr. Robbie Warringham who leave the group
aCe host the Materials * Characterization * Catalysis workshop at ETH Zurich in collaboration with Micromeritics attended by talented young researchers from across Europe
On January 13th, Javier delivers a keynote lecture entitled ‘Towards catalyst design for CO2 valorization’ in the Nature Conference on Materials Electrochemistry: Fundamental and Applications, Shenzhen, China
Loredana Falco joins aCe as Administrative Assistant
Prof. Pérez-Ramírez joins the International Advisory Board of Energy Technology, Wiley.
Successful PhD defense by Gastón Larrazábal December 6, 2017
Javier delivers an invited lecture on catalyst discovery and design for the Chemical Engineering Seminar Series at EPFL Lausanne. A photo while finishing the lecture on the train.
Javier delivers the opening plenary lecture at the 19th Chinese Zeolite Conference in Wuhan, China. The talk entitled ‘Zeolites as enablers for sustainable technologies’ was attended by over 1000 members of the society! A photo of the audience was taken by Prof. Pérez-Ramírez at the beginning of his talk.
Successful PhD defense by Giacomo Lari October 18, 2017
Gaston Larrazábal delivers his public PhD presentation
The themed issue in Catalysis Science and Technology on Single Atom Catalysis coedited by Sharon Mitchell, John Meurig Thomas, and Javier Pérez-Ramírez in online
Ali Saadun and Simon Büchele join the group as PhD students
Javier wins the individual, double, and mixed-double tournaments at the Akademischen Tennisclub Zürich
Bharath Tata joins the group as a visiting student
Javier wins the individual tournament at the Tennisclub Riesbach
Javier delivers a plenary lecture at the 1st European Conference on Plasma Catalysis for CO2 Valorization and Green Chemistry, held at UPMC in Paris
Guido Zichittella, Davide Albani, and Giacomo Lari deliver talks at 13th European Congress on Catalysis (Europacat 2017) in Florence
Javier delivers a lecture at the SUNCAT Summer Institute 2017, Stanford University
Matthias Scharfe and Robbie Warringham win the runner-up and best poster presentations in Catalysis Science and Engineering as the SCS Fall Meeting
Our article on olefin production from natural gas via oxychlorination catalysis is published as a Hot Paper in Angewandte Chemie
Javier delivers a keynote lecture entitled ‘Catalytic Technologies towards the Glycerol Biorefinery’ at the 46th World Chemistry Congress in São Paulo
Gaston Larrazábal wins the poster award competition of the MaP Graduate Symposium
Prof. Ignacio E. Grossmann (Carnegie Mellon University) receives the ETH Chemical Engineering medal
Guido Zichittella and Giacomo Lari are awarded the SCNAT/SCS Chemistry Travel Grant and Davide Albani receives the EFCATS Student Travel Grant to deliver oral presentations at the 13th European Congress on Catalysis, Florence, Italy
A delegation from the Spanish Embassy in Switzerland led by Ambassador Dª Aurora Díaz-Rato Revuelta visits aCe
First 2017 BBQ at aCe
Prof. Pérez-Ramírez wins the Sustainable Energy Award 2017 of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Miriam Ackermann joins the group as a PhD student
Our patent 'Indium oxide catalyst for methanol synthesis' is among the top 20 inventions of ETH in 2016
Tim Forster and Nicolas Aellen join the group as students
Commencement of the EU project 'a-Leaf’. aCe joins 13 other teams across Europe aiming to build a photoelectrochemical device able to reproduce the complete process of photosynthesis to obtain clean fuels and raw materials using exclusively sunlight, water and CO2
Farewell to Dr. Amol Amrute and Dr. Asier Zubiaga who leave the group
New ligand-modified catalyst for direct hydrogen peroxide synthesis is published in Angewandte Chemie - see video
Selina Kaiser and Matthias Frei join the group as PhD students
Successful PhD defense by Tobias Keller October 26, 2016
Large attendance and contributions by the group at the 2016 Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society, University of Zurich
Vladimir Paunovic (pictured below) is awarded the runner-up oral presentation in Catalysis Science & Engineering
Ferdy Coumans joins the group as a PhD student
Farewell to Pedro Lira who leaves the group
Farewell to Rohan Murty and Erdem Ibrahim Irtem who finish their research stays
Our project 'Gas to value: halogen-mediated catalytic processes for natural gas conversion to chemicals' is awarded a prestigious ETH Grant
Congratulations to Gianvito Vilé who wins the 2016 MaP award for the best interdisciplinary PhD thesis of ETH Zurich
Sergio Mazzotti joins the group as a Hilfsassistent
Ibrahim Erdem Irtem joins the group as an academic guest
Farewell to Dr Oliver Martin who leaves the group
Our research discovery of a new catalyst that allows the easy conversion of natural gas constituents into precursors for the production of fuels and chemicals has been highlighted by ETH News - see video
Successful PhD defense by Oliver Martin May 5, 2016
Congratulations to Gianvito Vilé, whose outstanding dissertation has been awarded the prestigious silver ETH medal. We wish him continued success in the future!
Our new catalyst for methanol synthesis via CO2 hydrogenation is published in Angewandte Chemie and highlighted in C&EN - see video
aCe participates in the Day of Open Laboratories
Chemistry World highlights our emoticons representing different mechanisms of catalyst deactivation recently featured as cover art in Green Chemistry
Dr Zupeng Chen joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher and Rohan Murty visits us as an exchange student
Farewell to Dr Max Moser and Dr Marilyne Boltz who leave the group
Dr. Max Moser is nominated as one of the 30 most influential scientists under the age of 30 by Forbes Magazine
Our article on the one-step production of vinyl chloride from ethylene over ceria catalysts is published in Angewandte Chemie
Farewell to Dr. Gianvito Vilé and Mr. Sundararajan Thirumalai who leave the group
Successful PhD defense by Max Moser December 9, 2015
Successful defense of doctoral thesis by Gianvito Vilé November 4, 2015
Evgeniya Vorobyeva, Matthias Scharfe, and Harris Luk Ho Ting join the group as PhD students
Our review on hierarchical zeolites is published in Nature Communications
Farewell to Dr. Zhen Guo and Dr. Jiaxu Liu who leave the group and to Matthias Frei and Matthias Scharfe who complete their semester projects
Our article on single-site Pd catalysts is highlighted as the front cover of Angewandte Chemie and in Nature
Prof. Javier Pérez-Ramírez delivers plenary lectures on hierarchical zeolites at the 2nd Micromeritics Workshop, Cambridge, USA and at the 6th AMMM symposium, Varna, Bulgaria
Large attendance and contributions by the group at the 2015 Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society, EPFL, Lausanne
Max Moser and Giacomo Lari (pictured above) are awarded the best oral presentation and runner-up poster presentation in Catalysis Science & Engineering, respectively
Guido Zichittella joins the group as a PhD student and Moritz Haus joins the group as a student
Read this article in ETH Globe to learn how our research fuels sustainable chemistry
Contribution by Tobias Keller at Biofuels and Bioenergy, Valencia, Spain
aCe participates in the 'Tag des Offenes Labor' opening doors to the public
Prof. Javier Pérez-Ramírez delivers an invited lecture on hierarchical zeolites at the Micromeritics Day in Madrid, Spain
Welcome to Lucia Tschannen who joins the group as an administrative assistant
Contribution by Gianvito Vilé at the 24th NAM of the Catalysis Society, Pitsburgh, USA
Farewell to Dr. Pierre-Yves Dapsens, David Sholz and Kartikeya Desai who leave the group
Successful defense of doctoral thesis by Pierre Dapsens June 10, 2015
Isabella Giovinazzo awarded the Prix SGVC from the Swiss Process and Chemical Engineers association for her Masters thesis on the production of lactic acid from glycerol waste
Prof. Javier Pérez-Ramírez delivers a plenary lecture at the 3rd International Symposium on Green Chemistry in La Rochelle, France. Contributions by Pierre Dapsens, Giacomo Lari, and Gaston Larrazabal.
Dr. Amol Amrute rejoins the group as a post-doctoral researcher and Ali Saadun joins the group as a mobility student
Prof. Pérez-Ramírez receives the Beilby Medal and Award 2014
Dr. Asier Zubiaga and Dr. Jiaxu Liu join the group as post-doctoral researchers
Matthias Frei, Matthias Scharfe, and Guido Zichittella join the group as students
Dr. Lin Ronghe joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher
Pedro Lira joins the group as a PhD student
Kartikeya Desai joins the group as a Hilfsassistent
Our eco-friendly bio-/chemocatalytic process to manufacture lactic acid from glycerol is highlighted in ETH News, Smithsonian magazine, Chemistry World, Chemical processing, Chimia, C&EN News
Prof. Pérez-Ramírez elected to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Contribution by Tobias Keller at the 2nd Euro-Asia Zeolite Conference, Nice, France
Dr. Marilyne Boltz and Dr. Robbie Warringham join the group as post-doctoral researchers
Sundararajan Thirumalai joins the group as a PhD student
The escaping positronium highlights the unique sensitivity of PALS to the pore connectivity in hierarchical zeolites
Farewell to Dr. Christoph Aellig and Dr. Maria Milina who leave the group
Successful defense of doctoral thesis by Nina-Luisa Michels December 17, 2014
Davide Albani joins the group as a PhD student
Successful defense of doctoral thesis by Maria Milina October 1, 2014
David Scholz joins the group as a PhD student and Olivier Gröninger as a student
Large attendance and contributions by the group at the 2014 Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society, University of Zurich.
Prof. Javier Pérez-Ramírez delivers the closing plenary lecture at the 6th International FEZA conference in Leipzig, Germany. Contributions by Pierre Dapsens, Tobias Keller, and Dr. Sharon Mitchell.
Gianvito Vilé is awarded the best poster presentation in Catalysis Science and Engineering and Tobias Keller is awarded the ChemPhysChem poster award
Farewell to Isabella Giovinazzo and Patrick Dähler who complete their Master projects, to Fabian Brüning, Sotiria Mostrou, Stefan Reuteler, and Sarah Correa who complete their Semester projects, and to Drs. Lars Borchardt and Izabela Czekaj who leave the group
Harisankar Nellattukuzhi Sreenivasan joins the group as a joint-PhD student with the group of Prof. Müller at the Institute of Energy Technology of the ETH Zurich, Dr. Antonio José Martín Fernández as a scientist, and Dr. Zhen Guo as a post-doctoral researcher
aCe welcomes youngest member
Farewell to David Scholz and Julian Straus who leave the group
Dr. Begoña Puértolas Lacambra joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher
Our project 'Design of electrocatalysts for the conversion of CO2 into valuable chemicals' is awarded a prestigious ETH Grant
Dr. Cecilia Mondelli delivers lecture at the 1st Annual SuBiCat meeting, and Dr. Sharon Mitchell delivers lecture and Tobias Keller gives student fellowship talk at the CASCATBEL Summer School
aCe hosts the second Advanced Porous Materials symposium in collaboration with Micromeritics
Laura Rodriguez awarded the Prix SGVC from the Swiss Process and Chemical Engineers association for her Masters thesis on the oxidation of hydrogen halides
Gianvito Vilé awarded the 2014 SCNAT/SCS Chemistry Travel Grant
Our research quantifying the impact of mesopore quality on the performance of hierarchical zeolite catalysts has been highlighted by ETH News
A colorful explosion transforms our laboratory through a new graffiti
Prof. Pérez-Ramírez awarded the Beilby medal for outstanding contributions to catalysis engineering
Fabian Brüning, Kartikeya Desai, Patrick Dähler and Isabella Giovinazzo join the group as students and Dr. Manuel Hernández Rodríguez joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher
Farewell to Dr. Markus Hammes who leaves the group
Sotiria Mostrou joins the group as a student
The SCCER BIOSWEET (Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research – BIOmass for Swiss EnErgy fuTure) is established, financed by the CTI, with the aim to contribute to the Energy Transition 2050 in Switzerland via the development of efficient technologies to transform biomass into bioenergy. aCe takes part in this initiative together with other 15 Swiss academic research groups and more than 40 cooperation partners.
Dr. Christof Aellig joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher and Vladimir Paunovic starts his PhD study
Farewell to Danny Verboekend and Carolina Flores who leave the group
Our Motto: gas costante
Farewell to Drs. Amol Amrute and Bright Kusema who leave the group
Giacomo Marco Lari starts his PhD study in the group
Farewell to Dr. Gerardo Majano who leaves the group
Commencement of the EU project 'Cascade deoxygenation process using tailored nanocatalysts for the production of Biofuels from lignocellullosic biomass (CASCATBEL)', financed by the FP7-NMP programme. aCe joins 17 other teams across Europe targeting the development of a viable process for the production of second-generation biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass using nanostructured catalysts
Successful defense of doctoral thesis by Amol Amrute October 9, 2013
Large attendance and contributions by the group at the 2013 Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society, EPFL, Lausanne
Contributions by Dr. Cecilia Mondelli, Dr. Sharon Mitchell, Max Moser, Oliver Martin, Gianvito Vilé, Nina-Luisa Michels, and Tobias Keller at the XIth European congress on Catalysis 2013 in Lyon, France. Prof. Pérez-Ramírez receives the EFCATS Young Researcher Award at the congress
Max Moser and Oliver Martin are awarded the best and runner-up Poster Presentation in Catalysis Science & Engineering, respectively
Dr. Lars Borchardt joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher
Prof. Pérez-Ramírez is training hard in the summer heat
Prof. Pérez-Ramírez is awarded the EFCATS Young Researcher Award for seminal contributions to the field of heterogeneous catalysis
Dr. Izabela Czekaj joins the group as a scientist
Farewell to Anna Beltzung, Stéphane Isabettini, and Laura Rodriguez who complete their Master projects, and to Gabriele Colombo, Leonard Floryan, Oliver Ingold, and Jakub Jagielski who complete their Semester projects
Second aCe workshop
Julian Straus starts his PhD study in the group
aCe participates in the Tag des Offenes Labor
Contribution by Tobias Keller at the 10th Congress on Catalysis Applied to Fine Chemicals 2013 in Turku, Finland
Prof. Pérez-Ramírez chairs 1st ETH Zurich Chemical Engineering Medal, Zurich, Switzerland
Tobias Keller awarded the Prix SGVC from the Swiss Process and Chemical Engineers association for his Masters thesis on the application of hierarchical zeolites in base catalysis
Our project 'Enabling new sustainable applications of zeolite catalysts through post-synthetic design' is awarded a prestigious ETH Grant
Group attendance at the SCS Spring Meeting, PSi, Villigen
Farewell to Dr. Danny Verboekend who leaves the group
Molekül highlights the research activities of Prof. Pérez-Ramírez
Gaston Larrazabal starts his PhD study in the group
Congratulations to Danny Verboekend whose outstanding dissertation has been awarded the prestigious ETH medal. We wish him continued success in the future!
Prof. Pérez-Ramírez delivers plenary lecture at the 46th annual meeting of German catalysis
Anna Beltzung joins the group as student and Dr. Markus Hammes joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher
Dr. Sharon Mitchell assumes new position as Scientist
Prof. Pérez-Ramírez is awarded the Andrew Main lecture at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada
Dr. Elodie Rodrigues joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher and Gabriele Colombo, Leonard Floryan, Oliver Ingold, Stéphane Isabettini, Jakub Jagielski, and Laura Rodriguez as students
Farewell to Atsushi Tazawa, Thomas Soltermann, and Jose Zhao who complete their research projects
Dr. Bright Kusema joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher
Commencement of the Climate-KIC project 'CO₂ Base Products – From Dream to Reality (Dream Products)', funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. aCe join 5 other European project partners with the aim of developing applications of CO2-based polymers in the preparation of inorganic materials
Successful defense of doctoral thesis by Danny Verboekend October 10, 2012
The editorial 'Virtual issue on catalysis at ETH' by Prof. Pérez-Ramírez and our recent perspective 'Biobased chemicals from conception toward industrial reality: lessons learned and to be learned' belong to the top 4 most read articles in the online version of ACS Catalysis in the period July-September 2012
Prof. Pérez-Ramírez is distinguished as the UOP-Honeywell Invitational Lecturer, 2012
Our research on advanced visualization of technical catalysts has been highlighted in ETH life
Contributions by group members at the 2012 Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society at ETH Zurich
Danny Verboekend and Nina-Luisa Michels are awarded the Best Oral Presentation and Best Poster Presentation, respectively, at the 2012 Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society
Amol Amrute and Maria Milina are awarded the Catalysis Science & Technology Poster Prizes at the 2012 Fall Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society
Tobias Keller starts his PhD study in the group, Thomas Soltermann and Jose Zhao join the group as students, Atsushi Tazawa as a student, and Carolina Flores as a graphic designer
Prof. Javier Pérez-Ramírez and Dr. Jeffrey Kenvin chair the Advanced Porous Materials Workshop, jointly organized by Micromeritics Europe and ETH Zurich
Flurina Attinger Ochsner joins the group as administrative assistant
Farewell to Martha Mariani-Rodríguez, Tobias Keller, Martin Menart, Jonas Wichert, Gaston Larrazabal, Johan Mendez Ducon, and Mario Stucki who leave the group
Prof. Pérez-Ramírez awarded the Otto-Roelen-Medal at the 15th International Congress on Catalysis 2012 in Munich, Germany
Contributions at the 15th International Congress on Catalysis 2012 by Dr. Cecilia Mondelli, Dr. Sharon Mitchell, Amol Amrute, Pierre-Yves Dapsens and Nina-Luisa Michels
First aCe workshop
Farewell to Dr. Marta Santiago, Dr. Blaise Bridier, and Crisa Vargas who leave the group
Gianvito Vilé awarded the Master Thesis Prix SGVC from the Swiss Process and Chemical Engineers association for his works on hierarchical FAU zeolites
Dr. Evgenii Kondratenko joins the group as an academic guest
Prof. Pérez-Ramírez joins the Editorial Advisory Board of Advanced Functional Materials
Successful defense of doctoral thesis by Blaise Bridier March 14, 2012
Major milestone reached - post-synthetic strategies to design hierarchical Y and USY zeolites are published in Advanced Functional Materials (front cover)
Martin Menart and Johan Mendez Ducon join the group as students, and Crisa Vargas Fuentes as a visiting PhD student
Farewell to Alberto Restuccia
Maximilian Moser starts his PhD study in the group, Dr. Laurent Gueudré joins as a post doctoral researcher, and Jonas Wichert and Gaston Larrazabal as students
Farewell to Dr. Katia Barbera
Prof. Pérez-Ramírez joins the Editorial Board of Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
Our recent article 'Decoupling porosity and compositional effects in desilicated ZSM-5 zeolites for optimal alkylation performance' in Catalysis Science and Technology is selected as a hot article
Our article 'Design of hierarchical zeolite catalysts by desilication' returned to the top 10 most accessed articles in the online version of Catalysis Science & Technology
Dr. Gerardo Majano joins the group as a post doctoral researcher
Prof. Pérez-Ramírez assumes position as 'Associate Editor' of Catalysis Science and Technology (RSC publishing)
Prof. Pérez-Ramírez awarded the Andrew Main lecture at the Faculty of the Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada
Major milestone reached - the first demonstration of the scalability of hierarchical zeolites is published in ChemCatChem
Our recent article 'Shaped RuO2/SnO2-Al2O3 catalyst for large-scale Cl2 production by HCl oxidation' in ChemCatChem is selected as a hot article
Our recent article 'Design of hierarchical zeolite catalysts by desilication' in Catalysis Science and Technology is one of the most accessed online in July-October 2011
Gianvito Vilé starts his PhD study in the group
Contribution by Danny Verboekend at the Fourth International Symposium on Advanced micro and mesoporous materials, Varna, Bulgaria
Contributions by Dr. Cecilia Mondelli, Amol Amrute, and Blaise Bridier at EuropaCat X, Glasgow, Scotland
Farewell to Maximilian Moser and Gianvito Vilé who finishe their Master theses
Contribution by Danny Verboekend at the 5th International FEZA Conference, Valencia, Spain
aCe open for the "Tag der Chemie", organized by ETH and the University of Zurich in occasion of the International Year of Chemistry
Contributions by Dr. Cecilia Mondelli, Blaise Bridier, Dr. Sharon Mitchell, and Amol Amrute at the first Swiss Heterogeneous Catalysis Meeting (HCM), Grindelwald, Switzerland
Farewell to Akanksha Raj and Zair Dominguez Trinidad
Blaise Bridier granted 2011 SCNAT/SCS Chemistry Travel Award
Dr. Frédéric Meunier visits aCE from the Laboratoire Catalyse and Spectrochimie of Caen, France
Gianvito Vilé, Akanksha Raj, Zair Dominguez Trinidad, and Maximilian Moser join the group as students
Dr. Cecilia Mondelli assumes new position as Senior Scientist
Dr. Katia Barbera joins the group as a post doctoral researcher and Oliver Martin as a PhD student
Pierre-Yves Dapsens joins the group as a PhD student
Inagural lecture of Prof. Javier Pérez-Ramírez
Mrs. Martha Mariani-Rodríguez joins the group as administrative assistant
Defense of doctoral thesis by Marta Santiago
Nina-Luisa Michels, Alberto Restuccia, and Hui Yin join the group as PhD students
Maria Milina joins the groups as a PhD student
Dr. Cecilia Mondelli joins the group as a post doctoral researcher
Prof. Javier Pérez-Ramírez arrives with Dr. Georgiana Stoica, Dr. Sharon Mitchell, Marta Santiago, Danny Verboekend, Blaise Bridier, and Amol Amrute
Establishment of aCe at ETH