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Specialist op het gebied van verduurzamen van de chemische industrie met
bijzondere aandacht voor get gebruik van hernieuwbare grondstoffen en
katalyse.
Co-founder (2008) European Research Institute of Catalysis (ERIC)
Secretary
(2008 – 2011) Dutch Zeolite Association (DZA)
Board Member
(2008 – 2016) Catalysis Commission of the International Zeolite
Association (IZA)
Distinguished Evaluator (since 2012) European
Research Council (ERC)
Elected Council Member (2014 – 2018) Research
Council of the Catholic University Leuven / Belgium
Division Head
(since 2015) Division Bio-refinery and Sustainable Chemistry / Catholic
University Leuven
International Board Member (2015 – 2021)
ChemCatChem (Wiley)
International Board Member (since 2015)
ChemSusChem (Wiley)
Afdelingshoofd (2016 – 2018) Center for Surface
Chemistry and Catalysis (COK) / Catholic University Leuven / Belgium
Co-Chair
(since 2017) Catalysis Commission of the International Zeolite
Association (IZA)
Associate Editor (since 2017) ACS Sustainable
Chemistry & Engineering https://pubs.acs.org/journal/ascecg
Elected
Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (since 2018)
Co-founder
and Board Member (since 2018) of the KULeuven Spin-Off Company ZEOPORE
http://www.zeopore.com/
Consortium Head and Coordinator (since 2019)
of the valorization consortium BIOCON
Steering committee member
(since 2019) TRANSFARM, supporting KU Leuven research groups to scale up
their lab expertise to pilot scale in the broad area of circular
bio-economy.
https://set.kuleuven.be/over-ons/groepsdiensten-en-faciliteiten/transfarm
Spokesman
and coordinator (since 2019) Biomot I Research Trajectory of the
Flanders Industry Innovation Moonshot
2020-2040.https://moonshotflanders.be/moonshot/
Head and
coordinator of the Steering committee (since 2020) New ‘Center for
sustainable chemistry’ at KULeuven (ongoing)
Founder and Head
(since 2020) of the Center for Sustainable Catalysis and Engineering
(CSCE) / Catholic University Leuven / faculty of Bioscience Engineering
/ Department Molecular and Microbiological Sciences (M2S) / Belgium
Elected
member (2021) Academia Europaea
Master in Bioscience Engineering (Chemistry) with great Distinction,
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering / Department Interphase Chemistry /
Center for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (COK) / Catholic University
Leuven / Belgium (1995)
PhD in Bioscience Engineering (Chemistry),
Faculty of Bioscience Engineering / Department Interphase Chemistry /
Center for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (COK) / Catholic University
Leuven / Belgium (2000)
Postdoctoral research position at KULeuven /
Belgium, and visiting researcher BASF (with Ulrich Müller) Ludwigshafen
/ Germany (2000-2003)
Postdoctoral position (funded by FWO), Faculty
of Bioscience Engineering / Center for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis
(COK) / Catholic University Leuven / Belgium (2003-2005)
Gastdocent
(2003-2005) KU Leuven
Visiting Researcher University of Cape Town /
South Africa in the frame of the Flemish – South African Bilateral
Research Agreements (2004)
Docent (2005 -2008) KU Leuven
Hoofddocent
(2008-2011) KU Leuven
Hoogleraar (2012-2014) KULeuven
Gewoon
hoogleraar (2015-.) KULeuven
Visiting Professor Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Guangzhou / China (2018-2021)
1st price of the Royal Flemish engineers community (1996) KVIV / Belgium.
1st
price international DSM chemistry award (2001), Kerkrade / The
Netherlands.
Awarded for Management and Chemical Education: Post-Doc
Forum, BASF Ludwigshafen / Germany (2001)
Awarded for the BASF Summer
School on Catalysis, BASF Ludwigshafen / German (2002)
The ‘Incentive
Award (2005)’, Société Chimie Belge, Brussels / Belgium
33rd
Annual British Zeolite Association Lecture Award (2010), Southampton / UK
Membership
of the American Chemical Society (ACS) (2010)
10 Gold to Gold Open
Access awards of the Royal Society of Chemistry (since 2014)
The
‘Green Chemistry’ Award (2015), La Rochelle, France.
Membership
(Fellow) of the Royal Chemical Society (RCS) (since 2015)
Listed in
the global Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers (2021)