Congratulations to the 2024, 2025, and 2026 aCe Fellows of the Clariant Talent Program in Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry photographed at the 2026 Award Ceremony

Successful PhD defense by Abhinandan Nabera on July 1, 2026

Farewell to Jianyang Wang who leaves the group

aCe celebrates summer BBQ

Jiangkai Lin joins the group as a post-doc

Bettina Eberle, Isabelle Hengartner and Vivianne Müller join the group to undertake Master Theses and Greta Berselli, Janani Shanmugarajah, Alexander Pitzer, David Iliev, Fabiano Caretti, Jan Schäuble, and Paul Nesemeier join the group to undertake Research Projects

aCe celebrates Christmas dinner

Farewell to Sibei Zou who leaves the group

Farewell to Ivan Surin who leaves the group

Welcome to Jan Sarro, Vivianne Müller, and Zhouyu Zhang who join the groups to undertake Research Projects

JPR receives the inaugural #greenchemistry medal at the @RSEQUIMICA meeting in Bilbao

Our study 'Coordination environments of Pt single-atom catalysts from NMR signatures' is published in Nature

Farewell to Man Suvarna who leaves the group

Successful PhD defense by Manu Suvarna May 28, 2025

Luca Weigel joins the group as PhD student

Iris Nogueroles Langa rejoins the group as a PhD student and Dr. Andrea Ruiz-Ferrando rejoins as a post-doctoral researcher

Farewell to Dr. Tangsheng Zou and Dr. Phil Preikschas who leave the group

Successful PhD defense by Tangsheng Zou December 18, 2024

Successful PhD defense by Thomas Moragues December 11, 2024

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

Successful PhD defense by Dario Poier November 27, 2024

Successful PhD defense by Vera Giulimondi November 20, 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

Farewell to Dr. Shibashish Jaydev who leaves the group

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

Successful PhD defense by Shibashish Jaydev September 25, 2024

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

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

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

Our study 'Active learning streamlines development of high performance catalysts for higher alcohol synthesis' is published in Nat. Commun.

Farewell to Dr. Thaylan Pinheiro Araújo who leaves the group

Our article 'Embracing data science in catalysis research' is published in Advanced Materials

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 10^th 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 4^th 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 20^th 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 19^th 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 26^th 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 12^th 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 2^nd 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 256^th 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 2^nd International Forum on Clean Energy in Dalian, China.

Javier delivers a plenary lecture at the 4^th 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 13^th, 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 19^th 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 1^st 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 13^th 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 46^th 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 13^th 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

aCe participates in the Day of Open Laboratories

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 2^nd Micromeritics Workshop, Cambridge, USA and at the 6^th 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