15 October 2021
Pablo Martínez is welcomed as new PhD student in the group. Pablo’s project “CO2 valorization with combined fermentation and chemical catalysis” is funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.
30 September 2021
Prof. Jakob Albert, University of Hamborg, Germany visit the research group for a two-day seminar to discuss present and future research collaboration and give an invited talk on the chemistry and catalysis of polyoxometallates.
1 September 2021
Mahtab Madani is welcomed to the group as new PhD student within the H2020 SPIRE project “Membranes And Catalysts Beyond Economic and Technological Hurdles” (MACBETH). Her project is entitled “Supported Liquid-Phase Homogeneous Catalysis”.
Macbeth link: https://www.macbeth-project.eu/
6 May 2021
Independent Research Fund Denmark supports the project “Sustainable aviation fuel from CO2 with combined fermentation and catalysis” (Research Project 2) for 3 years with 6.2 MDKK. The project is managed by Prof. Anders Riisager (PI) and Prof. Alex T. Nielsen, DTU Biosustain (co-PI) and will develop and integrate new filter technology for CO2 absorption with bio- and chemo-catalysis to make sustainable aviation fuel from biogas.
1 November 2020
Huirong Li joins the group as new PhD student with funding from the China Scholarship Council and the project “Low-temperature active and poisoning resistance catalysts for selective catalytic reduction of NOx with ammonia”
1 October 2020
Chantal Abou Fayssal and Deepthy Krishnan joins the group as new PhD students within the framework of the European Joint Doctorate (EJD) training network “Coordination Chemistry Inspires Molecular Catalysis” (CCIMC). Their PhD projects are: “Biphasic catalysis with metal nanoparticles inside polymeric nanoreactors” and “Selective hydrogenation of amides with supported transition metal nanoparticles”.
CCIMC link: www.ccimc.eu
13 February 2020
Prof. Anders Riisager is participating in the inaugural lecture at Stockholms University of Prof. Paul T. Anastas (Yale University) awarded the H.R.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf’s professorship in environmental science, and gives an invited lecture at the associated Green and Sustainable Chemistry Symposium.
17 January 2020
Prof. Anders Riisager is hosting a New Year seminar and lunch between CSC and Chemical Reaction Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
16 January 2020
PhD student Jakob Maximilian Marinkovic defends his thesis entitled “Supported Ionic Liquid-Phase (SILP) Membrane Reaction Systems for Industrial Homogeneous Catalysis”. He will continue in the group as postdoc working on hydroformylation in the H2020 SPIRE project “Membranes And Catalysts Beyond Economic and Technological Hurdles” (MACBETH).
20 December 2019
Prof. Anders Riisager is hosting the department seminar “Sustainable Materials and Processes” with invited guest lectures by Prof. Anja-Verena Mudring (Stockholm University) and Prof. Robin Rogers University of Alabama and 525 Solutions Inc.)
2 December 2019
Guest PhD student Kalina Grzelek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) rejoins the group to complete work on catalysis with AlPOs.
30-31 October 2019
Prof. Anders Riisager is co-organizer of a track at the DTU High Tech Summit on “Sustainable Chemicals through Digitalization”.
See more here
23 October 2019
The book “Biomass, Biofuels, Biochemicals - Recent Advances in Development of Platform Chemicals” is published by Elsevier with Prof. Anders Riisager as author and co-editor.
See more here
7 September 2019
Guest PhD student Wengfang Zhao, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China joins the group. She will work on the catalytic conversion of biomass-derived chemicals using alternative hydrogen carriers.
1 September 2019
Wenting Fang joins the group as new PhD student with the project “Selective catalytic conversion of renewables to chemicals with heterogeneous catalysis”.
30 August 2019
PhD student Irene Tosi defends her thesis entitled “Zeolite Catalysts for the Selective Conversion of Sugars into Polymer Monomer”. She continue in the group as postdoc working on catalytic conversion of oxygenates with zeolites.
28 May 2019
Prof. Anders Riisager is co-editor on the special Issue of Topics in Catalysis relating to the 18th Nordic Symposium on Catalysis. All 20 articles of this issue are now out.
See more here: https://link.springer.com/journal/11244/onlineFirst
15 May 2019
The H2020 International Training Network “Coordination Chemistry Inspires Molecular Catalysis” (CCIMC) is granted with Prof. Anders Riisager as co-applicant. The project will establish a coordinated doctoral training at the European level on molecular catalysis with 19 academic/industrial partners and 15 PhD fellowships.
30 April 2019
The H2020 SPIRE project “Membranes And Catalysts Beyond Economic and Technological Hurdles” (MACBETH) involving 25 industrial/academic partners across Europe is granted. The project will run in 2019-2024 (budget 20.7 M€) with the group of Prof. Anders Riisager working on catalyst development and implementation for industrial hydroformylation.
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9 February 2019
Guest PhD student Kalina Grzelek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) joins the group. She will work on synthesis and catalysis of modified zeolites and AlPOs for aviation fuel production.
1 December 2018
Ping Zhu join the group as new PhD student with the project “Enhancing the activity of micro porous zeolites for catalytic sugar transformations”.
26-28 August 2018
Prof. Anders Riisager is chairing the 18th Nordic Symposium on Catalysis in Copenhagen.
Read more here: https://www.conferencemanager.dk/NSC2018
1 June 2018
Guest PhD student Nasrin Nemati (Shiraz University, Iran) joins the group. She will work on carbonylation catalysis with ionic liquid systems.
1 March 2018
Guest PhD student Omar Abdelaziz (Lund University) joins the group. He will work on oxidative catalytic depolymerisation of lignin.
1 October 2017
Amalie Elise Modvig joins the group as postdoc working on catalytic conversion of biomass-derived oxygenates.
25 August 2017
PhD student Amalie Elise Modvig defends her thesis entitled ”Selective Oxidation of Biomass-derived Chemicals”.