Frontiers of Science

March 20^th at 12:00
Onsite event
in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity
Spring 2025 program

Prof. Javier Perez Ramirez, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Catalysis and sustainability from atom to planetary scale
Host: Dmitry Murzin (dmitry.murzin@abo.fi)

Coffee and sandwich at 11:45, first come first served!

Six PhD researchers and early-career postdocs are welcome to have a lunch and discuss with Prof. Javier Perez Ramirez after the seminar. This is a great possibility to learn hosting skills in a friendly environment and create connections for future. Everyone is welcome to join, BioCity Turku will offer the lunch.

If you got interested, please send an email to biocityturku@bioscience.fi

Javier Perez Ramirez, full Professor of Catalysis Engineering at ETH Zurich since 2010, pursues the design of catalytic materials and process concepts to drive sustainable chemical and energy production at scale. He studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Alicante and received his PhD at Delft University of Technology. He serves as the Chair of the Editorial Board of Green Chemistry and directs NCCR Catalysis, a Swiss Centre of Competence in Research devoted to developing carbon-neutral chemicals across the whole value chain through catalytic processes.

Selected publications

S.D. Jaydev, A.J. Martín, D. Garcia, K. Chikri, J. Pérez-Ramírez. 2024. Assessment of transport phenomena in catalyst effectiveness for chemical polyolefin recycling. Nat. Chem. Eng. 2024, 1, 565-575

Suvarna, T. Zou, S.H. Chong, Y. Ge, A.J. Martín, J. Pérez-Ramírez. 2024. Active learning streamlines development of high performance catalysts for higher alcohol synthesis. Nat. Commun. 2024, 15, 5844

Pinheiro Araújo, G. Giannakakis, J. Morales-Vidal, M. Agrachev, Z. Ruiz-Bernal, P. Preikschas, T. Zou, F. Krumeich, P.O. Willi, W.J. Stark, R.N. Grass, G. Jeschke, S. Mitchell, N. López, J. Pérez-Ramírez. 2024. Low-nuclearity CuZn ensembles on ZnZrOx catalyze methanol synthesis from CO2. Nat. Commun. 2024, 15, 3101

General information

• You can download and save all the spring 2025 FoS-seminars to your calendar from here: https://seafile.utu.fi/d/44a70f80ac1e46a9ad0a/
• Registration is not needed, participation list is circulated in the audience
• If you are a student and later wish to get a certificate of attendance from the Frontier of Science seminars, print out the seminar diary and after the seminar ask the BioCity coordinator to sign it https://seafile.utu.fi/d/44a70f80ac1e46a9ad0a/
• Please note that any audio or video recording of the seminars is strictly forbidden.
• Spring 2025 image credits to Teemu Tuominen: Close up photograph of soil bacteria Streptomyces colonies border.