Speakers NCCC
Confirmed Keynote speakers XXVIII 2027
Professor Tatjana Parac-Vogt - KU Leuven
"Metal–Organic Frameworks for Biologically Inspired Catalysis"
Dr. Gonzalo Prieto - CSIC
"C1 catalysis: integrating C-C coupling and chemo-functionalization to (e)chemicals"
Professor Francesca Paradisi — University of Bern
"Discoveries, innovation and implementation of biocatalytic processes"
Dr. Ina Vollmer - UU
"Force for recycling – Mechanocatalytic conversion of plastics"
Dr. Francesco Mutti - UvA
"Engineering Enzymes Beyond Nature: From Promiscuous Reactivity to New Catalytic Pathways"
Dr. Dennis Hetterscheidt – Leiden University
"Activation Dioxygen at Copper Sites; From Bioinorganic Chemistry to Electrocatalysis"
Confirmed Plenary speakers XXVIII 2027
Professor Paolo Fornasiero - University of Trieste
"Advanced Nanostructured Catalysts for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Applications"
Maurits van Tol - JM
"Catalysis enabling a low carbon intensity society"
Professor Robert Phipps - UoC
"New Catalysts and Strategies for Enantioselective Hydrogen Atom Transfer"
Professor Bob van der Zwaan - UvA/TNO
"Catalyis and Techno-Economic Analysis"
Plenary speakers XXVII 2026
Prof. Frank Glorius (U. Münster)
"On data, discovery & sensitivity in (photo)catalysis"
Prof. Charlotte Williams (U. Oxford)
"Catalysis for the circular economy: understanding and predicting performances in polymerizations and depolymerizations"
Dr. Hirohito Hirata (Toyota Motor Corporation)
"Progress and future of automotive exhaust gas purification catalysts: mutual utilization of materials data for exploring material application"
Prof. Selin Kara (Aarhus University & Leibniz University Hannover)
"Intensification of chemo-enzymatic processes towards industrial volumetric productivities"
Prof. Pelayo García de Arquer (ICFO)
"Beyond static approaches to control electrolysis interfaces"
Keynote speakers XXVII 2026
Prof. Chris Slootweg (U. Amsterdam)
"Catalysing a sustainable future: radical redesign of chemistry for circularity"
Dr. Jingxiu Xie (RU Groningen)
"Thermocatalytic CO2 conversion to chemicals and fuels via Fischer–Tropsch synthesis"
Prof. Maarten Roeffaers (KU Leuven)
"Illuminating microplastics: chemical, optical and materials approaches to a growing challenge"
Dr. Tom Burdyny (TU Delft)
"How extreme gradients govern the performance and stability of electrocatalysis"
Dr. Clemens Mayer (RU Groningen)
"Harnessing evolution to break PFAS: engineering next-generation defluorinases"
Dr. Max Voß (RWE)
"Towards net zero: decarbonizing flexible power generation"