HISTORY - Invited lectures presented at the Symposium in recent years.
 

2023
Juan Carlos Colmenares Q. (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
ADVANCED CARBON-BASED COMPOSITE (PIEZO)PHOTOCATALYSTS: ENVIRONMENTAL AND ORGANIC SYNTHESIS APPLICATIONS

Roland A. Fischer (Technical University of Munich)
METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS AS MATERIALS PLATFORM FOR ADVANCED PHOTO-/ELECTROCATALYSIS: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE

Santiago Gómez Ruiz (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid)
PHOTOCATALYTIC NANOMATERIALS AS POWERFUL TOOLS FOR HELPING IN ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION PROCESSES

 

2022
Louis Fensterbank (Sorbonne University, France)
ORGANOMETALLIC CATALYSIS UNDER VISIBLE LIGHT

Andreas Gansäuer (University of Bonn, Germany)
CATALYSIS IN SINGLE ELECTRON STEPS

Petr Krtil (J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague)
RATIONAL DESIGN OF NANO-SIZED ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR WATER ELECTROLYSIS

Paolo Melchiorre (Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain)
PHOTOCHEMISTRY & ORGANOCATALYSIS: NEW RADICAL OPPORTUNITIES

 

2021
Céline Chizallet (IFP Energies nouvelles, France)
COMPUTATIONAL HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS IN AN INNOVATION CONTEXT: UNDERSTANDING AND PREDICTING PERFORMANCE FOR METALLIC AND ZEOLITE CATALYSTS

Christophe Copéret (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN WELL-DEFINED AND INDUSTRIAL CATALYSTS VIA A MOLECULAR APPROACH

Rhett Kempe (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
CATALYSIS FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY

Bert M. Weckhuysen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
ADVANCES IN OPERANDO SPECTROSCOPY AND ITS ROLE IN THE REFINERY OF THE FUTURE

 

2019
Paul Knochel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
POLYFUNCTIONAL HETEROCYCLIC ORGANOMETALLICS IN SYNTHESIS

Philippe Zinck (Université de Lille, France)
CHAIN SHUTTLING POLYMERIZATION: A POWERFULL TOOL FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF MULTIBLOCK (CO-)POLYMERS

Gabriele Centi (University of Messina, Italy)
CHANGING CATALYSIS PARADIGMS TO FACE THE TRANSITION IN ENERGY AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTION

Michal Mazur (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
ELECTRON MICROSCOPY METHODS FOR CHARACTERISATION OF ZEOLITE CATALYSTS

Štefan Vajda (J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry Prague, Czech Republic)
CATALYSIS BY SIZE-SELECTED CLUSTERS & BRIDGING THE PRESSURE AND MATERILAS GAP

2018
Hansjörg Grützmacher (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Low valent mono and dinuclear metal olefin complexes in catalyzed hydrogenation/dehydrogenation reactions

Steven P. Nolan (Ghent University, Belgium)
Gold-N-Heterocyclic Carbene Mediated Catalysis: An Organic and Inorganic Adventure

Radek Cibulka ( UCT Prague, Czech Republic)
Photoredox catalysis with organic dyes and visible light: the way towards new chemical transformations

Nicolas Bats (Johnson Matthey, Billingham, UK)
From zeolite powder to industrial catalysts or adsorbents : an overview of the scale-up and industrialization process

2017
George Britovsek (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Ethylene Oligomerisation Beyond Schulz-Flory Distributions

Paul Diddams (Johnson Matthey, United Kingdom)
Cracking Chemistry linked to catalyst design

Shigeyoshi Inoue (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
N-Heterocyclic Imines and N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Main Group Catalysis

Evgeny A. Pidko (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Balancing reductionist and systems approaches in computational catalysis

2016
Fabrizio Cavani (University of Bologna, Italy)
H-transfer with methanol and heterogeneous catalysis

Giuliano Giambastiani ICCOM-CNR, Florence, Italy)
Metal-Ligand Synergies in Early Organometallics and Organolanthanides for Polymerization and Hydroamination catalysis

Angelos A. Lappas (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece)
Advances in Biomass Catalytic Pyrolysis towards production of transportation fuels and chemicals

Duncan Wass (University of Bristol, UK)
New Directions in Homogeneous Catalysis: from Biofuels to Self-Healing Aeroplanes

2015
Freek Kapteijn (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
What options do Metal-Organic Frameworks have for catalysis?

Nicholas Long (Imperial College London, UK)
Redox-active and lanthanide complexes for single-site polymerisation catalysis

Jun Okuda (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Activation of Dihydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Using Complexes of Electropositive Metals

Gianfranco Pacchioni (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Nanocatalysis: from supported clusters to two-dimensional oxides

2014
Manfred Bochmann (University of East Anglia, UK)
Catalysis-relevant Gold(III) Chemistry: Exploring the Au-C, Au-H and Au-O Energy Landscape

Sjoerd Harder (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Early Main Group Metal Catalysis - Development and Working Principles

Bert Sels (KU Leuven, Belgium)
A Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Concept in Leuven: A Chemist's View

Ben Slater (University College London, UK)
Computational Determination of Porous Catalyst Structures

2013
Jean-Francois Carpentier (Université de Rennes, France)
Green Concepts for Catalysis: Discrete Alkaline- and Rare-Earth Catalysts for Cyclic Esters Polymerizations and Hydroelementation Reactions.

Matthias Driess (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Unifying Catalysis Through Synthesis of Hybrid Materials

Roger Gläser (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
Heterogeneously Catalyzed Partial Oxidations in Nanopores: Old Wine in New Skins?

2012
Michael Buchmeiser (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
Stereo- and Regioselective Cyclopolymerization-Derived Poly(diynes): Gadgets in Polymerization Catalysis or Useful Materials?

Gabriele Centi (University of Messina, Italy)
Catalysis for CO2 Conversion to Introduce Renewable Energy in the Value Chain of Chemical Industries.

Paul Diddams (INTERCAT inc., USA)
State-of-the Art Catalytic Additives for Fluid Catalytic Cracking.

2011
Marco Daturi (ENSICAEN, Université de Caen, France)
ON THE USE OF IR SPECTROSCOPY TO CHARACTERISE CATALYTIC MATERIALS AND REACTION MECHANISMS

Martin Kotora (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
AXIALLY CHIRAL BIPYRIDINE N,N-DIOXIDES AS EFFICIENT CATALYSTS IN ENANTIOSELECTIVE REACTIONS

Dmitry Yu. Murzin (Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland)
ASYMMETRIC HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS

2010
Krijn P. de Jong (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY FOR 3D CHARACTERIZATION OF POROUS CATALYSTS

Jyri-Pekka Mikkola (Umeå University, Sweden)
HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS AND IONIC LIQUIDS – NOVEL POSSIBILITIES FOR LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOREFINERIES

Bernhard Rieger (TU Munich, Germany)
CATALYTIC CO2-ACTIVATION – NOVEL CHANCES, NOVEL MATERIALS

Wieslaw J. Roth
NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE SYNTHESIS AND CATALYSIS OF EXPANDED ZEOLITE STRUCTURES

Petr Štěpnička (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Polar Phosphinoferrocene Ligands for Catalysis

2009
Karol Grela (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)
Motivational tools in challenging olefin metathesis reactions

Marcello Rigutto (Shell Technology Centre Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Hydrocarbon processing – present and future challenges for catalysis

Thomas Straßner (The Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Homogeneous catalysis with Pt(II)- and Pd(II)-NHC-complexes

Ulrich Zenneck (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
p-ARENE Transition metal complexes and their use in homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis

2008
Con-Yong Chen (Chevron, USA)
Disproportionation of alkanes via molecular redistribution and molecular averaging.

Joaquín Pérez Pariente (ICP CSIC Madrid, Spain)
The early beginnings of catalysis science: a chemo-historical approach.

David Kubička (VÚANCH, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic)
Biomass in oil refineries - new challenges for catalysis.

Sulaiman Al-Khattaf (King Fahd University, Saudi Arabia)
Aromatic transformations in fluidized bed reactor.

Cornelius J. Elsevier (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Palladium-carbene complexes for catalytic hydrogenation.

Ajayan Vinu (NIMS Tsukuba, Japan)
Highly acidic nanoporous materials and their application in catalysis.

Michal Hocek (IOCB, Prague, Czech Republic)
Pd-catalyzed cross-couplings and C-H activations for modification of nucleosides and nucleotides and polymerase catalyzed construction of functionalized nucleic acids.

Klaus H. Theopold (University of Delaware, USA)
Selective ethylene oligomerization with chromium catalysts.

2007
Philip Llewellyn (MADIREL, France)
Using gas adsorption and complementary in situ methods to characterize potential catalyst materials.

Jesus Santamaria (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Microreactors and microsensors with zeolite films.

Jihong Yu (Jilin University, China)
Design and synthesis of inorganic microporous materials.

Sergio de A. Bambirra (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Neutral and (poly)cationic group 3 complexes: from generation to catalysis.

2006
Pierre Braunstein (University Louis Pasteur, France)
From hemilabile ligands and homogeneous catalysts to 1-D dimetallic wires.

Michal Horáček (J. Heyrovský Institute, Czech Republic)
Activation of simple molecules by titanocenes or zirconocenes

Narenda Kumar (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
Conversion of light hydrocarbons to value added products in petro-chemical industry.

Michael Stoecker (SINTEF, Norway)
Methanol to olefins - Present scenario and future perspectives.

2005
Eckhard Dinjus (Institute of Technical Chemistry, Karlsruhe, Germany)
Recent developments on the utilization of carbon dioxide for chemical synthesis.

Jan Kaspar (University of Trieste, Italy)
Catalysis and nanomaterials: mastering the properties of CeO2-ZrO2 nanostructured oxides as a case study.

Gerhard Pirngruber (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Creation of active oxygen species - from iron zeolites to biomimetic catalysts.

Francis Verpoort (Ghent University, The Netherlands)
Immobilized Schiff-base ruthenium complexes as multi-functional catalysts.

2004
Ana Margarida Martins (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal)
Syntheses and Reactivity in Olefin Polymerisation Catalysis.

Sanjiv Prashar (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain)
Design of Novel Group 4 ansa-metallocene Systems.

Zdeněk Sobalík (J. Heyrovský Institute, Prague)
Opportunities and Challenges for Redox Catalysis over Metallozeolites.

Bert Weckhuysen (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Breaking and Making of Molecules: Operando Spectroscopy for the Advancement of Heterogeneous Catalysis.

2003
Irina Beletskaya (Moscow State University)
Transition Metal Catalyzed Reactions of Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Formation by Addition Process.

Svetlana Mintova (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)
Chemistry in Nanoporous Materials.

Cyril O’Connor (University of Cape Town)
Shape Selective Synthesis of Phenol Derivatives.

Jiří Vohlídal (Charles University, Prague)
Control of Polymerization by Transition-Metal Complexes.

2002
F. Fajula (Montpellier, France)
Mesostructured hybrid catalysts: design and use.

M. Hronec (Bratislava, Slovak Republic)
Catalytic oxidation in the manufacture of specialty chemicals.

J.W. Niemantsverdriet (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
Surface science models of industrial catalysts.

C. Perego (EniTecnologie, Italy)
Combining alkylation and transalkylation for alkylaromatic production.

P. Sobota (Wroclaw, Poland)
Incorporation of Ziegler-Natta catalyst components. Structures and reactivity of the intermediates.

2001
Giuseppe Bellussi (EniTecnologie, Italy)
Heterogeneous Catalysis for the Hydroxylation of Aromatic Compounds.

Outi Krause (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
Dehydrogenation of Light Paraffins on Supported Oxide Catalysts.

Petr Nachtigall (J. Heyrovsky Institute, Czech Republic)
Overlap Between Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Transition Metal Ion/Zeolite Systems.

Ferdi Schüth (Max-Planck Institute, Germany)
High-Throughput Catalysis Research: State-of-the-Art and Perspectives.

Dirk Walther (University of Jena, Germany)
Bi- and Oligometal Oxalamidinato Complexes of Late Transition Metals: New Catalysts in C-C Linking Reactions.

2000
J. Dědeček (Prague, Czech Republic)
Transition metal ions - probes for investigation of silicon rich molecular sieves.

H. van Bekkum (Delft, The Netherlands)
Recent progress in the use of zeolites and related materials in organic conversions.

J. Pérez-Pariente (Madrid, Spain)
Design of mesoporous materials for catalytic applications.

F. di Renzo (Montpellier, France)
Problem-solving in the synthesis of microporous and mesoporous catalysts.

J. Sundermeyer (Marburg, Germany)
Oxidation and polymerisation of olefins by new designed molecular catalysts of the d-metal acids.

1999
S. Ernst (Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Preparation and catalytic properties of transition metal complexes in zeolites.

A. Kogelbauer (Zurich, Switzerland)
Solid acids as nitration catalysts.

K. Kochloefl (Rosenheim, Germany)
Development of industrial solid catalysts.

A. Martinez (Valencia, Spain)
Potential catalytic applications of ordered mesoporous materials in acid, bifunctional and redox processes.

M. Zdražil (Prague, Czech Republic)
Preparation of supported molybdenum catalysts by the new slurry impregnation method.

A. Zecchina (Turin, Italy)
The structure of the catalytic centres in titanium silicalite TS1.

1998
C.S. Cundy (Manchester, England)
Advances in the Synthesis and Modification of Zeolite Catalysts.

P.H. Dixneuf (Rennes, France)
Ruthenium catalysts: the new tailors of molecules.

J.M. López Nieto (Valencia, Spain)
Gas phase selective oxidation of hydrocarbons on microporous materials.

K. Mach (Prague, Czech Republic)
Peculiarities of titanocene-catalyzed linear dimerization of terminal acetylenes.

P.M. Maitlis (Sheffield, England)
The chemistry underlying Fischer-Tropsch reactions.

R.A. Sheldon (Delft, The Netherlands)
Redox molecular sieves: heterogeneous catalysts for liquid phase oxidations.

J. Sommer (Strasbourg, France)
Alkane reactivity on solid acids. Molecular approaches to the activation step.

B. Wichterlová (Prague, Czech Republic)
Metal ions in molecular sieves: State of the art.

1997
R. Burch (Reading, England)
Mechanistic aspects of the selective reduction of nitrogen oxides by organic compounds under oxygen rich conditions.

B. Kraushaar-Czarnetzki (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Developments and challenges in catalysis on solid bases.

A. Jentys (Vienna, Austria)
Role of acidic and metallic sites in hydroconversion reactions.

R. Prins (Zurich, Switzerland)
Kinetic studies of the effect of P and F promoters in hydrodenitrogenation.

B. Sulikowski (Krakow, Poland)
Oxidative dehydrogenation of low molecular weight alkanes on zeolites and selected catalysts.

F. Trifiro (Bologna, Italy)
Multifunctional properties of catalysts for light paraffins selective oxidations.

J. Vedrine (Villeurbanne, France)
Molecular approach to active sites on metallic oxides for partial oxidation reactions.