December 2024

Farewell to Dr. Vera Giulimondi, Dr. Dario Poier, and Dr. Zihao Zhang who leave the group

November 2024

Dr. Jianyang Wang joins the group as a post-doctoral guest researcher

Yimeng Jin joins the group as a Master Thesis student

Dr. Seok Kim and Dr. Sibei Zou join the group as post-doctoral researchers

October 2024

Farewell to Dr. Shibashish Jaydev who leaves the group

September 2024

Amir Zholdasbekov, Tobias Heinrich, and Pit Hoffmann join the group as Master students

Our study 'Assessment of transport phenomena in catalyst effectiveness for chemical polyolefin recycling' is published in Nature Chemical Engineering

Our study 'CO2 electroreduction to long-chain hydrocarbons on cobalt catalysts' is published in Advanced Energy Materials

August 2024

Our study 'Convergent active site evolution in platinum single atom catalysts for acetylene hydrochlorination and implications for toxicity minimization' is published in ACS Catalysis

Bayan Karapenchev joins the group as a Master Thesis student

Dr. Ayesha Alkhoori joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher

July 2024

aCe delegation at the 18th International Congress on Catalysis in Lyon

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Farewell to Dr. Thaylan Pinheiro Araújo who leaves the group

April 2024

JPR receives the Award for Excellence in Natural Gas Conversion for his contributions towards carbon neutrality via CO2 utilization

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March 2024

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

February 2024

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

December 2023

aCe celebrates Christmas by welcoming Catalina as our new group mascot

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November 2023

Farewell to Dr. Dario Faust Akl who leaves the group

October 2023

Adam Yung-Tai Chiang joins the group as a PhD student

Successful PhD defense by Dario Faust Akl October 11, 2023

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Successful PhD defense by Thaylan Pinheiro Araújo October 4, 2023

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Farewell to Dr. Kevin Rossi who leaves the group and joins TU Delft

Gian Marco Potros Beshara rejoins the group as a PhD student

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Our study 'Evidence of bifunctionality of carbons and metal atoms in catalyzed acetylene hydrochlorination' is published in Nature Communications

September 2023

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

August 2023

aCe delegation at EuropaCat 2023 in Prague

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Thomas Moragues wins the Best Oral Presentation award in the Analytical Sciences section at the SCS Fall Meeting 2023

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June 2023

Andrea Ruiz Ferrando joins as a visiting PhD student from ICIQ, Tarragona

March 2023

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

February 2023

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

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Gian Marco Potros Beshara joins the group as a student

November 2022

Marc Eduard Usteri rejoins the group as a PhD student

October 2022

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

September 2022

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

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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

June 2022

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

April 2022
February 2022

Dr. Phil Preikschas and Dr. Matteo Vanni join the group as post-doctoral researchers

November 2021

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

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Vera Giulimondi wins a poster prize at the Catalysis Science & Technology 10th Anniversary Symposium

Successful PhD defense by Ali J. Saadun November 03, 2021

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October 2021

Farewell to Dr. Cecilia Mondelli who leaves the group

September 2021

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

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August 2021

Javier is announced as the recipient of the 2021 Robert K. Grasselli Award for Catalysis of the European Federation of Catalysis Societies

April 2021

Manu Suvarna joins the group as a PhD student

March 2021

Successful PhD defense by Selina Kaiser March 24, 2021

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Anton Dimitrov, Asbjörn Rasmussen, Marc Eduard Usteri, and Ivan Surin join the group as students

January 2021

Successful PhD defense by Matthias Frei January 13, 2021

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Clemens Wöllhaf joins the group as a student

December 2020

Our research on nanoscale engineering of catalytic materials for sustainable technologies is highlighted by Chemistry World

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November 2020
October 2020

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

August 2020

Simon Büchele wins the award for the best virtual poster in Catalysis Science and Engineering at the SCS Fall Meeting, held this year online

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Javier wins for the third time the individual tournament at the Tennisclub Riesbach with a resounding 6:0 6:0 in the final

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Javier reaches the final at the Belvoir Cup, which had to abandon due to abdominal injury

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July 2020

Shibashish Jaydev joins the group as a PhD student

June 2020

Javier participates in a discussion about the future of oil refinery in Switzerland broadcasted in the SRF program Echo der Zeit 

May 2020

Farewell to Dr. Begoña Puértolas Lacambra who leaves the group

March 2020

ETH goes to online teaching due to COVID-19 - here Javier is ready to teach Heterogeneous Reaction Engineering

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Our article 'Nanostructuring unlocks high performance of platinum single-atom catalysts for stable vinyl chloride production' is published in Nature Catalysis

February 2020

Javier is named Distinguished Lecturer at the College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

January 2020

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)

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Javier delivers an invited seminar at the Faculty of Applied Sciences, TU Delft, Netherlands

December 2019

Farewell to Dr. Zupeng Chen who leaves the group

The NCCR Sustainable Chemical Processes through Catalysis, which jpr will direct, is officially accepted

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Successful PhD defense by Guido Zichittella 11 December 2019

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Successful PhD defense by Harris Ho Ting Luk 4 December 2019

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November 2019

Javier delivers a seminar at the School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin

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Successful PhD defense by Evgeniya Vorobyeva 20 November 2019

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Javier participates as an invited speaker at the Cell Symposium: Next-Generation Materials for Energy Applications held at Xiamen University, China

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Our cover in Nanoscale was selected as one of the top covers published since the journal launch in 2009

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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

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Javier is distinguished lecturer at the Beijing Institute of Technology, China

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Dario Faust Akl joins the group as a PhD student

October 2019

Farewell to Drs. Ronghe Lin and Vladimir Paunovic who leave the group

Successful PhD defense by Matthias Scharfe 30 October 2019

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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

September 2019

Javier gives an overview of ENERGY-X at the SUNRISE: Swiss Stakeholder Workshop help at EMPA Dübendorf

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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

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Javier wins the individual and doubles (with Erik) tennis tournament at the Akademische Tennisclub Zürich

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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

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Javier delivers a plenary talk at the 20th Brazilian Catalysis Conference in São Paulo, Brazil

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Javier wins the individual tournament at the Tennisclub Riesbach

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Kyle Stephens joins the group as a PhD student and Marion Short as a student

August 2019

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

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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.

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July 2019

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

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Congratulations to Vladimir Paunović, whose outstanding dissertation has been awarded the prestigious ETH medal

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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

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June 2019

jpr at the prize ceremony

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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.

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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

May 2019

Guido Zichittella delivers a TEDx talk entitled 'What connects empathy, eggs and chemical industry?' in Siracusa, Italy

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jpr delivers an invited lecture at the XXXVII Biennial Meeting of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry in San Sebastian, Spain

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A snapshot of our single-atom catalyst inspired baking to celebrate our recent publications in ACIE and ChemCatChem

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Thaylan Pinheiro Araújo joins the group as a PhD student

March 2019

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

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James Lüthi and Dario Faust Akl join the group as students

February 2019

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

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January 2019

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

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Javier delivers an invited lecture at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain

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Javier appointed as new Editor-in-Chief of Catalysis Science & Technology, the catalysis flagship journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry

December 2018

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

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November 2018

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

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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!

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October 2018

Javier delivers a plenary lecture on catalyst design at the 2nd Trans-Pyrenean Meeting in Catalysis held in Tarragona

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September 2018

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.

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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

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Javier delivers a keynote lecture at the annual meeting of the Sustainable Chemistry Division of the German Chemical Society in Aachen, Germany

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With a dramatic final match lasting more than 3 h (4:6 6:3 6:4), Javier wins the Lerchenberg Herbst Trophy in Zurich

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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

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Guido Zichittella wins the best  poster presentation in Catalysis Science and Engineering at the SCS Fall Meeting

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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.  

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Our single-atom catalyst for Suzuki couplings is highlighted by the St.Galler Tagblatt

August 2018

Javier lectures at the Summer School 'Power to X: Fundamentals and Applications of Modern Electrosynthesis' in Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland

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Javier is honored with the Zhang Dayu Young Investigator Lectureship at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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jpr attends the 2nd International Forum on Clean Energy in Dalian, China.

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July 2018

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

June 2018

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

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Javier is honored with the Xing Da Lectureship at Peking University, China

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Javier delivers a lecture at the Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University, China

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May 2018

Florentine Veenstra joins the group as a PhD student 

Our article 'Evidence of radical chemistry in catalytic methane oxybromination' is published in Nature Catalysis

April 2018

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

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Los Payasos de la Tele visited aCe and performed at Vladimir’s PhD party

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Successful PhD defense by Vladimir Paunović April 4, 2018

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March 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.

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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

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Farewell to Martin Artusi who leaves the group

February 2018

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

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January 2018

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

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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 

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Loredana Falco joins aCe as Administrative Assistant

Prof. Pérez-Ramírez joins the International Advisory Board of Energy Technology, Wiley.

December 2017

Successful PhD defense by Gastón Larrazábal December 6, 2017

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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.

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October 2017

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.

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Successful PhD defense by Giacomo Lari October 18, 2017

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Gaston Larrazábal delivers his public PhD presentation

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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

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Ali Saadun and Simon Büchele join the group as PhD students

September 2017

Javier wins the individual, double, and mixed-double tournaments at the Akademischen Tennisclub Zürich

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Bharath Tata joins the group as a visiting student

Javier wins the individual tournament at the Tennisclub Riesbach

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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

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Javier delivers a lecture at the SUNCAT Summer Institute 2017, Stanford University

August 2017

Matthias Scharfe and Robbie Warringham win the runner-up and best  poster presentations in Catalysis Science and Engineering as the SCS Fall Meeting

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Our article on olefin production from natural gas via oxychlorination catalysis is published as a Hot Paper in Angewandte Chemie

July 2017

Javier delivers a keynote lecture entitled ‘Catalytic Technologies towards the Glycerol Biorefinery’ at the 46th World Chemistry Congress in São Paulo

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June 2017

Gaston Larrazábal wins the poster award competition of the MaP Graduate Symposium

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Prof. Ignacio E. Grossmann (Carnegie Mellon University) receives the ETH Chemical Engineering medal

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May 2017

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

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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

April 2017

aCe participates in the Day of Open Laboratories

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March 2017

Our patent 'Indium oxide catalyst for methanol synthesis' is among the top 20 inventions of ETH in 2016

February 2017

Tim Forster and Nicolas Aellen join the group as students

January 2017

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

December 2016

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

November 2016

Selina Kaiser and Matthias Frei join the group as PhD students

October 2016

Successful PhD defense by Tobias Keller October 26, 2016

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September 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

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Ferdy Coumans joins the group as a PhD student

August 2016

Farewell to Pedro Lira who leaves the group

Farewell to Rohan Murty and Erdem Ibrahim Irtem who finish their research stays

June 2016

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

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Sergio Mazzotti joins the group as a Hilfsassistent

May 2016

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

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April 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

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March 2016

Chemistry World highlights our emoticons representing different mechanisms of catalyst deactivation recently featured as cover art in Green Chemistry 

February 2016

Dr Zupeng Chen joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher and Rohan Murty visits us as an exchange student

January 2016

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

December 2015

Farewell to Dr. Gianvito Vilé and Mr. Sundararajan Thirumalai who leave the group

Successful PhD defense by Max Moser December 9, 2015

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November 2015

Successful defense of doctoral thesis by Gianvito Vilé November 4, 2015

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October 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

September 2015

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

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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

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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

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August 2015

Contribution by Tobias Keller at Biofuels and Bioenergy, Valencia, Spain

June 2015

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

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May 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

March 2015

Prof. Pérez-Ramírez receives the Beilby Medal and Award 2014

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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

February 2015

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

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January 2015

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

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December 2014

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

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November 2014

Davide Albani joins the group as a PhD student

October 2014

Successful defense of doctoral thesis by Maria Milina October 1, 2014

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September 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.

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Gianvito Vilé is awarded the best poster presentation in Catalysis Science and Engineering and Tobias Keller is awarded the ChemPhysChem poster award

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July 2014

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

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June 2014

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

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May 2014

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

April 2014

A colorful explosion transforms our laboratory through a new graffiti

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Prof. Pérez-Ramírez awarded the Beilby medal for outstanding contributions to catalysis engineering

March 2014

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

February 2014

Sotiria Mostrou joins the group as a student

January 2014

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

December 2013

Our Motto: gas costante

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Farewell to Drs. Amol Amrute and Bright Kusema who leave the group

November 2013

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

October 2013

Successful defense of doctoral thesis by Amol Amrute October 9, 2013

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September 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

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Max Moser and Oliver Martin are awarded the best and runner-up Poster Presentation in Catalysis Science & Engineering, respectively

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August 2013

Dr. Lars Borchardt joins the group as a post-doctoral researcher

 

July 2013

Prof. Pérez-Ramírez is training hard in the summer heat

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Prof. Pérez-Ramírez is awarded the EFCATS Young Researcher Award for seminal contributions to the field of heterogeneous catalysis

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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

June 2013

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

May 2013

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

April 2013

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!

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March 2013

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

February 2013

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

January 2013

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

December 2012

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

October 2012

Successful defense of doctoral thesis by Danny Verboekend October 10, 2012

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September 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

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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

August 2012

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

July 2012

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

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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

June 2012

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

April 2012

Dr. Evgenii Kondratenko joins the group as an academic guest

Prof. Pérez-Ramírez joins the Editorial Advisory Board of Advanced Functional Materials

March 2012

Successful defense of doctoral thesis by Blaise Bridier March 14, 2012

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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

February 2012

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

January 2012

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

December 2011

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

November 2011

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

October 2011

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

September 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

August 2011

Contributions by Dr. Cecilia Mondelli, Amol Amrute, and Blaise Bridier at EuropaCat X, Glasgow, Scotland

July 2011

Farewell to Maximilian Moser and Gianvito Vilé who finishe their Master theses

Contribution by Danny Verboekend at the 5th International FEZA Conference, Valencia, Spain

June 2011

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

May 2011

Blaise Bridier granted 2011 SCNAT/SCS Chemistry Travel Award

April 2011

Dr. Frédéric Meunier visits aCE from the Laboratoire Catalyse and Spectrochimie of Caen, France

March 2011

Gianvito Vilé, Akanksha Raj, Zair Dominguez Trinidad, and Maximilian Moser join the group as students

Dr. Cecilia Mondelli assumes new position as Senior Scientist

February 2011

Dr. Katia Barbera joins the group as a post doctoral researcher and Oliver Martin as a PhD student

January 2011

Pierre-Yves Dapsens joins the group as a PhD student

December 2010

Inagural lecture of Prof. Javier Pérez-Ramírez

November 2010

Mrs. Martha Mariani-Rodríguez joins the group as administrative assistant

October 2010

Defense of doctoral thesis by Marta Santiago

September 2010

Nina-Luisa Michels, Alberto Restuccia, and Hui Yin join the group as PhD students

July 2010

Maria Milina joins the groups as a PhD student

March 2010

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