Bert Weckhuysen (1968) is a Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University. He received his Master and PhD degrees from Leuven University, after which he worked as a postdoc at Lehigh University and Texas A&M University. His research group has been active in the design, synthesis, characterization and application of catalysts for the manufacturing of our current and future fuels, chemicals and materials. Recent research is devoted to the catalytic activation of CO2 and H2O, as well as the chemical recycling of plastics and the upgrading of municipal and agricultural waste. He has received for his research work many prizes, including the Emmett Award, Bourke Award, Spinoza Award, Tanabe Prize, and most recently the Chemistry Europe Award. He has been appointed Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion and is a member of a.o. the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts, and European Academy of Science.
Prof Paulien Herder is the dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences and professor of Energy Systems at TU Delft. She specialises in energy systems integration and in making energy and industry free of fossil fuels through electrochemical conversion by combining technical sciences with social and behavioural sciences. Between 2013 and 2019, she was Director of the Delft Energy Initiative, which is a portal to around 1000 energy researchers on the Delft campus. She is a member of the Supervisory Board of Hotelschool The Hague and a member of the Scientific Sounding Board Committee for the North Sea Consultation.
Ed graduated at Agricultural University Wageningen, the Netherlands and also defended his PhD thesis at the Agricultural University Wageningen, the Netherlands on the degradation of lignocellulose by white-rot fungi (1993). Ed jointed Avantium in 2007. He is currently VP Development – responsible for Public-Private partnerships of Avantium. In addition he is involved in feedstock selection and pretreatment (Avantium’s Dawn Technology and Ray Technology) and Catalytic Biomass Conversion of carbohydrates into building blocks for polyesters such as PEF, an improved replacement of PET. He is also involved in the valorization of side products of the YXY & Dawn Processes, cq lignins, humins and levulinates. He is co-chair of the IEA-Bioenergy Task 42 on Biorefineries.
Martijn is responsible for strategic business management for TNO’s programs in the field of Industrial Transformation, Power-2-X and CCU. He works at the intersection of multiple technologies, products, companies and market segments to accelerate the transition to a CO2-neutral and circular economy. Previously, he worked in various business development positions focused on innovation in the chemical, process technology and high-tech industries. He is deeply involved in setting up public-private partnerships at regional, national and transnational levels, with a focus on industrial transformation and electrification in Northwestern Europe.
Marc Koper is Professor of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He received his PhD degree (1994) from Utrecht University (The Netherlands) with a thesis on nonlinear dynamics and oscillations in electrochemistry. He was an EU Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ulm (Germany) and a Fellow of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) at Eindhoven University of Technology, before moving to Leiden University in 2005. His research in Leiden focuses on fundamental aspects of electrocatalysis, theoretical and computational electrochemistry, and electrochemical surface science, in relation to renewable energy and chemistry. He has received various national and international awards, among which the Spinoza Prize of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (2021), the Allen J. Bard Award for Electrochemical Science of The Electrochemical Society (2020), the Netherlands Catalysis and Chemistry Award (2019), and the Faraday Medal (2017) from the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2021-2022, he was President of the International Society of Electrochemistry.
Frank Geuzebroek is currently Technical Program Manager and Principal Science Expert in the Hydrogen Technology team of Shell Project and Technology. He is responsible for management of the Hydrogen R&D technology program dealing with aspects of production, transport, distribution and end-use of hydrogen. Frank is also the Shell representative in the Mega Watt Test Centre of the Institute for Sustainable Process Technology project, building two electrolysers at EnTranCe at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen.
Frank is with Shell since 1992, all his career in Research and Development. He has a compassion to apply technology to help Shell and the world to decarbonize and has been part of Shell’s Net Zero Emissions journey for many years. He was involved in Carbon Capture and Storage for more than 15 years and has been working as Manager for Gas Processing and CO2 Capture R&D. He has been involved in the development of several innovative Gas Processing technologies currently in operation. From 2014 to 2019 Frank was the R&D manager of ADNOC Gas Processing in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
Frank has a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Amsterdam and a Master in Physics from the Free University, both in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
After obtaining a MSc in chemistry, with a specialization in heterogeneous catalysis from the University of Utrecht in 1992, Guido received his PhD in 1997 from the Delft University of Technology on a thesis on catalytic purification of Diesel exhaust gas. After a Post-Doc position at SRI-International (Stanford Research Institute) (1997-1999), he was awarded a fellowship of the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) to return to the Delft University of Technology as assistant professor, investigating the mechanism of heterogeneous catalytic processes using in situ spectroscopy and transient kinetics. He was awarded a VIDI scholarship in 2005 to develop liquid phase (photo)catalytic processes.
In 2009 he was appointed full professor initiating the research group ‘Photocatalytic Synthesis’ at the University of Twente. Prof. Dr. Guido Mul is a leading scientist in synthesis and performance evaluation of (photo)electrodes and photocatalysts for environmental and industrial applications, including using Raman and Infrared spectroscopy, and published over 200 peer-reviewed papers. He chairs the discipline of chemical engineering at the UT, is a member of the Dutch ECCM advisory committee (Electrochemical Conversion and Materials), a member of the CCPTS council (Chemical Conversion, Process Technology, and Synthesis (Top Sector Chemistry)), editorial board member of the international journals “ChemElectroChem“ and “ACS Environmental Science & Technology – Engineering”, and presently cooperates with industry in various Public-Private, and Dutch Science Foundation-funded consortia, such as RELEASE.
Jan Jaap Nusselder is Sustainability Lead for OCI Nitrogen Europe. OCI Nitrogen Europe is a subsidiary of OCI Global, a leading global producer and distributor of hydrogen based products – ammonia and its derivatives, and methanol, providing low carbon fertilizers, fuels and feedstock. Jan Jaap leads OCI Nitrogen Europe’s efforts to lower the carbon footprint of OCI’s products during production and work with customers across downstream value chains to minimize emissions occurring during the application of those products.
Jan Jaap joined OCI in 2013, working in roles across business development and public affairs before transitioning to his current role in September 2022. Prior to OCI, he held various positions within DSM in research, business intelligence and business development. Jan Jaap has a PhD in Physic Organic Chemistry and Masters in Chemistry from the University of Groningen
