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Welcome to my Amsterdam webspace! You'll find here information about my research and teaching, and also a link to the
design website of my sister Ada - go see some of her great work.
If you're into Jazz/Rock music, check out my kid brother Ami, who's drumming all over Europe.
I head the heterogeneous catalysis and sustainable chemistry group in the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) at the University of Amsterdam.
We focus on three areas: catalyst discovery, new materials for sustainable energy applications, and predictive modelling in catalysis.
I also have two companies: Sorbisense A/S in Denmark, that manufactures and markets a new groundwater sampling technology, and Yellow Diesel B.V.
in the Netherlands, that designs new solid catalysts and processes for biodiesel manufacturing and biomass conversion.
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01/2010: PhD vacancy - I am looking for a PhD student for a catalyst synthesis and testing project. Experience in heterogeneous catalysis is a plus. Excellent command of English and a master's degree in either Chemistry or Chemical engineering is a must.
12/2009: Check out my paper in Nature Chemistry on the implications of Gabor Somorjai's new catalysts.
11/2009: Dr. Santiago Gómez-Quero has joined our group to work on our ACTS/ASPECT project. Welcome Santi!
10/2009: Dr. Stefania Grecea has joined our group to work on the CatchBio lignin project, together with a new PhD student, Zea Strassberger. Good luck Stefania and Zea!
For earlier items see our News Archive.
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Bayer Cropscience Innovation Award ceremony (Viborg, 14 March 2006,
link).
(left) Rothenberg, Hubert de Jonge and dr. Gerhard Simons, CEO of Bayer Cropscience;
(right) Simons, Rothenberg, de Jonge and Danish MP Eyvind Vesselbo.
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From left: Dr. Laura Durán (currently at ICIQ Tarragona); Dr. Hessel Castricum (postdoc)
synthesises porous hybrid membranes for a variety of applications; Dr. Marjo Mittelmeijer (chief technician) is the boss of the lab and an expert on
solids characterisation; Jurriaan
Beckers (PhD student) is looking for new catalysts to make propylene; Paul Collignon (electronics technician)
heads the electronics and equipment support lab; Dr. Ana Maldonado (postdoc) designs new catlaysts using advanced chemometric models;
Dr. Anil Gaikwad (currently working for Corus Steel); Erik-Jan Ras (PhD student, not shown) develops descriptors for heterogeneous catalysts;
Dr. Albert Alberts (Senior Research Fellow, not shown) uses combinatorial synthesis for catalyst discovery; Irene Zacharaki (PhD student, not shown) is researching new catalysts for
making biofuel additives.
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last updated February 1st, 2010. |
