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"