An article appeared in the Volkskrant (in Dutch) about work in the group of Petra de Jongh regarding sustainable energy conversion and storage. It focuses on the search to develop […]
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Prize for best MSc thesis for Maarten Branssen
Maarten Branssen, MSc student onder Jessi van der Hoeven in een samenwerkingsproject tussen Alfons van Blaaderen (Soft Condensed Matter) en Petra de Jongh (Anorganische Chemie en Katalyse) heeft met zijn […]
Recent media appearances – group of Bert Weckhuysen
BNR podcast: interview with Jochem Wijten June 7, 2017 The podcast is about the production of artificial manure, without the high CO2 emmisions that appear during the Haber-Bosch process. Wijten […]
Krijn de Jong receives François Gault Lectureship Award
EFCATS, the European Federation of Catalysis Societies, has announced today that they are awarding the 2017 EFCATS François Gault Lectureship to Krijn de Jong. The Award will be presented at […]
Recent media appearances – group of Bert Weckhuysen
Lectures at Universiteit van Nederland in the Media In May 2016, Bert Weckhuysen appeared in a series of five lectures of the ‘Universiteit van Nederland’ (University of the Netherlands), in […]
Group of Bert Weckhuysen featured in podcast Captains of Chemistry
(From left to right: Anne-Eva Nieuwelink, Edwin Mooibroek (BNR), Bert Weckhuysen en Katinka Wondergem.) Bert Weckhuysen, Katinka Wondergem and Anne-Eva Nieuwelink feature in the first episode of ‘Captains of Chemistry’; […]
Pasi Paalanen and José Moya-Cancino featured in ‘De Werkplek’ on DUB
Pasi Paalanen and José Moya-Cancino have their research topic in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. Fischer-Tropsch fuels are a possible alternative for crude oil. Both PhD candidates work under supervision of Bert Weckhuysen […]
Thesis defense Peter Bramwell, 22 May 2017
Peter Bramwell will defend his dissertation, entitled “Pore-confined light metal hydrides for energy storage and catalysis”. Date and Time: Monday, May 22, 2017 at 10.30 AM. Location: Academic Building, Domplein […]
Bert Weckhuysen wins Tanabe Prize for Acid-Base Catalysis
The prize was initiated by the International Acid-Base Catalysis Group and bears the name of Kozo Tanabe, who pioneered many of the modern concepts in catalytic chemistry of acids and […]
Petra de Jongh contributed to the book “Hoe zwaar is licht?” (What is the weight of light?)
In het boek “Hoe zwaar is licht?” worden 100 vragen aan “de wetenschap” beantwoord. Beatrice de Graaf en Alexander Rinnooy Kan, hebben in 2015 alle Nederlanders opgeroepen om alles wat […]
The CatchBio Magazine; Ten years of Biomass Catalysis
In November 2016, the CatchBio consortium celebrated a decade of high-level research on catalytic biomass conversion. In an article in Agro & Chemie (March 2017), scientific director Bert Weckhuysen speaks […]
“Meet the Professor” with Petra de Jongh and Eelco Vogt
(Professor Petra de Jongh (links) met groep 8 van de Daltonschool in Rijnsweerd. Foto door Jade Heister). Op 29 maart, bezochten Petra de Jongh en Eelco Vogt ieder een basisschool […]