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Perspective: Hybrid Chemo-Enzymatic Heterogeneous Catalysts
In our lab, a small group of researchers is actively working at the interface between heterogeneous catalysis and biocatalysis. Our goal is to interface “chemo” and “bio” catalysts in bi-(or multi-)functional solid catalysts, with the idea to perf...
Post · February 22, 2024
Margot Van der Verren gets the best PhD talk award at “The Next Generation of Biocatalysis in Bern 2021”!
Margot has presented her work on the one-step preparation of hybrid chemo-enzymatic heterogeneous catalysts, combining a zeolite and an oxidase. At the occasion of this even, organized by and for non-permanent scientists, Margot has presented the ...
Post · February 22, 2024
La catalyse au service du CCU (CO2 Capture and Utilization)
Petite conférence tout public donnée à l’occasion d’un séminaire organisé par Agro Louvain Alumni, à l’UCLouvain le 17 novembre 2021. J’y évoque les questions scientifiques, techniques et stratégiques liées à l’hydrogénation catalytique du CO2 ver...
Post · February 22, 2024
Damien Debecker appointed as a Chemistry Europe Fellow
Chemistry Europe, an association of 16 chemical societies from 15 European countries publishing a family of high-quality scholarly chemistry journals (including for example ChemCatChem, ChemSusChem, ChemEurJ, etc.) and the magazine ChemistryViews,...
Post · February 22, 2024
Filippo Brienza defends his PhD on lignin depolymerization
Congratulations to Filippo for an exceptionnal PhD defense! Filippo has been working on “Extending the scope of reductive lignin depolymerization toward new feedstocks and innovative non-metal approaches“. His work paves the way to an improved val...
Post · February 22, 2024
Podcast long format: “les catalyseurs—le Tinder de la transition énergétique”
Mon collègue, le Professeur Francesco Contino, a entrepris de réaliser une série de podcasts intitulés “Exergie: Regards croisés sur l’énergie sous toutes ses formes”. Le podcast est basé sur les interview d’experts (Lionel Dubois, Philippe Lamber...
Post · February 22, 2024
Hippolyte Meersseman wins the first prize for the best oral communication at the “Club Biocatalyse en Synthèse Organique” symposium!
The 29th edition of the “Colloque du CBSO” took place on June 30 and July 1st 2022, online. This event allowed gathering the French (French-speaking) community of biocatalysis, biotechnology and biological synthesis. In her invited lecture, Caroli...
Post · February 22, 2024
Valentin Smeets wins the ISGS PhD Thesis Award
Dr. Valentin Smeets has received the 2019 ISGS PhD Thesis Award on May 15, 2020 for his work entitled « New synthetic approaches to efficient Ti–SiO2 epoxidation catalysts ». This prize, granted by the International Sol-Gel Society (ISGS), awards ...
Post · February 22, 2024
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