After a decade of impactful and innovative research, the MCEC Research Center is now entering its final phase.
Since 2024, our center has made significant contributions to scientific advancements, thanks to the dedication and hard work of everyone who has been part of this journey.
Now it’s time to reflect on and celebrate these achievements.
Stay connected for more information about a final event coming in 2025!
“For outstanding achievements and leadership in the field of sustainable chemistry and catalysis research”, prof. Bert Weckhuysen (UU) is being honored the 2023 Chemistry Europe Award.
Chemistry Europe, an association of 16 chemical societies from 15 European countries publishing a family of high-quality scholarly journals and the magazine ChemistryViews, recognizes outstanding contributions to chemistry with its new Chemistry Europe Award. The award ceremony will be held in August, during the 49th IUPAC World Chemistry Congress (IUPAC|CHAINS2023) in The Hague, The Netherlands. Bert Weckhuysen will receive the award and give a lecture.
In our latest MCEC Newsletter you can read about:
Important dates:
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This year’s Annual Meeting is taking place on Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th of June.
We count on your presence at this two-day event so make sure you reserve these dates in your agenda.
We have selected The Anthony Hotel in Utrecht as our location.
For those who are not living in Utrecht City we have arranged a shared hotel room at NH Hotels Utrecht Jaarbeurs. You are of course free to travel back home after dinner, but in case you want to stay this is an option.
All MCEC PhD’s will be required to present a poster.
Below you can find the registration form. Please register before May 15th.
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has granted a Vici grant to Prof. Pieter Bruijninx of Utrecht University for his research project:
Pieter Bruijnincx: We need to change the way we meet our society’s demands for carbon-containing materials. In this project, we put circularity central to molecular redesign of the chemicals and materials we daily use and develop new synthesis strategies to produce them more sustainably.
Many congratulations Pieter!
Modern society heavily relies on transportation. The internal combustion engines that power most vehicles emit gaseous pollutants that are harmful to human health and to the environment. Catalytic removal of toxic carbon monoxide (CO) from exhaust fumes is typically done with expensive noble metals as one of the key components of automotive catalytic convertors. For his PhD research, Valerii Muravev explored ways to improve the efficiency of costly catalysts by optimising the use of noble metals in convertors. Muravev recevied his PhD cum laude on November 26th 2021.
Have a look at the latest MCEC Publications (September – November 2021).
The purpose of the MCEC Lecture Series is to show our PhD candidates what the possibilities are after completing their PhD.
Upcoming lectures:
– (tentative) January 2022 – Ivan Devic
– March 3 2022 – Evgeny Uslamin
MCEC Member David Fernandez Rivas has received the Stairway to Impact Award. The award is one of five prizes that the NWO domain Science (ENW) presents this week to scientists who are an inspiration in the area of societal impact, team science, excellent science, diversity and communication.
David is an adjunct professor in the Mesoscale Chemical Systems (MCS) department of the Science & Technology (ST) faculty at the University of Twente. He is mainly known for the development of an injection technique that reduces needle usage, by making the fluid itself the needle: it is ‘shot’ through the epidermis at high speed. Earlier this year, David also received the prestigious Prins Friso Ingenieursprijs Engineer of 2021, granted by the Royal Netherlands Society of Engineers for his work on bubbles for practical uses.
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