Spain

Pedro Luis Arias

University of Basque Country
Coordinator of the action and co-supervises the work for DC5, DC9.

Professor in Chemical Engineering. Pedro´s profile is focused on the sustainable integration of diverse fields in chemical engineering, involving hydrocracking, hydrodeoxygenation, oxidations, oligomerization, dehydration and separation processes coupled to designing solid-catalysts, reactors and processes as well as modelling tasks.

Iker Aguirrezabal

University of Basque Country
Co-supervises the work for DC2, DC6, DC10.

Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering. Iker´s profile is focused into alkene reactions working under capillary condensation conditions in microporous (MOFs) and mesoporous (MCM-41) materials applied to mechanistic and kinetic understanding.

Beneficiaries

University of Basque Country

SUPREN, UPV/EHU, Spain

The Sustainable Process Engineering Research Group (SUPREN) is part of the EHU Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Group´s activities are concentrated in biofuel and biobased product formation, H2 production, heterogeneous catalysis applied to sustainable processes and engineering applied to techno-economic studies. 14 tenure researchers plus postdoctoral researchers (3) and PhD students (10) form this Group. Activities are financed by regional, national and European funds and through contracts with industrial partners.


Norway

Unni Olsbye

University of Oslo
Co-supervises the work for DC1, DC2.

Professor in Chemistry. Unni´s research is mainly directed towards structure-composition-function correlations in catalytic reactions, with emphasis on mechanistic studies of target- and by-product formation in microporous catalysts. In recent years, major efforts have been devoted to study the influence of confinement effects in micro- and nanoporous materials.

Petra Agota Szilagyi

University of Oslo
Co-supervises the work for DC1.

Associate Professor – Catalysis. Petra´s research is focused on the design, synthesis and characterisation of functionalised MOFs for sustainability applications. She is interested in using hybrid porous coordination polymers as hosts for guest particles, and examining the emergent host-guest interactions with a view to controlling materials properties.

David Balcells

University of Oslo
Co-supervises the work for DC3, DC8, DC12.

Research Professor. David´s work is oriented towards computational catalysis, with a strong focus on data-driven approaches based on high-throughput virtual screening and machine learning.

Beneficiaries

University of Oslo

UIO, Norway

UIO´s expertise ranges from metal organic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis, to materials for synthesis and characterisation of microporous materials (zeolites, zeotypes) and MOFs, performance evaluation and computational catalysis. In 2007-15, the group led the inGAP Centre (Innovative Natural GAs Processes and Products); a National Centre of Excellence for Research Innovation (CRI). The group is currently involved in a new CRI, (Industrial Catalysis – Science and Innovation).

Associated partners

ProfMOF

PMOF, Norway

PMOF is a Norwegian-based company within the chemical industry. PMOF was founded in 2015 by a group of scientists at the University of Oslo. PMOF´s vision is to scale up and bring excellent MOFs to the market in large scale industrial applications. Building on more than 10 years of research and development carried out by the University of Oslo, we are providing world class MOFs for the Research and Development. These MOFs can be applied to a wide array of industrial processes.


France

Franck Dumeignil

University of Lille

Expert in heterogeneous and hybrid catalysis.

Egon Heuson

Centrale Lille
Co-supervises the work for DC6, DC7.

Egon´s work is focused on enzyme catalysis and hybrid catalysis (combination of enzymes and chemo-catalysts/inorganic supports).

Fabio Bellot-Noronha

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Co-supervises the work for DC8, DC11.

Expert in heterogeneous catalysis and catalytic processes.

Didier Lecouturier

University of Lille
Co-supervises the work for DC13.“Expert in bioprocess engineering and fermentation”.

Expert in bioprocess engineering and fermentation.

Beneficiaries

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

UCCS, CNRS, France

UCCS research focuses on three main topical themes: energy, environment and sustainable development. We organize our activities according to three scientific departments: Catalysis and Molecular Chemistry, Heterogeneous Catalysis, and Solid-State Chemistry. The UCCS research efforts are mainly towards catalytic upgrading of biomass, fine chemistry, plant chemistry, pollution abatement, new fuels, nuclear fuel and wastes, fuel cells, eco-friendly materials.

Associated partners

University of Lille

France

Genoscope

France

Genoscope, the French sequencing center, is a department of the Francois Jacob Institute of Biology of the CEA (Commissariat à L’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives / France). The main research area of its research unit, Genomic Metabolic (GM), is the exploration of the diversity of organisms through the analysis of genomes and metagenomes, the in-depth understanding of the microbial metabolism and the diversification of the chemistry of living organisms using metabolic engineering / synthetic biology approaches.


Slovenia

Blaž Likozar

National Institute of Chemistry
Co-supervises the work for DC3, DC4, DC10.

Researcher and Head of the Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering at National Institute of Chemistry Slovenia. His expertise lies (among others) in heterogeneous catalysis materials, modelling, simulation and optimization of process fluid mechanics, transport phenomena and chemical kinetics.

Matej Huš

National Institute of Chemistry
Co-supervises the work for DC5.

Assistant Professor. Matej´s expertise lie in theoretical modelling of chemical reactions, including homogenous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis and non-catalysed reactions at the atomistic level, mesoscale and kinetic level (DFT and other HF-inspired approaches, KMC, microkinetics, macrokinetics).

Beneficiaries

National Institute of Chemistry

NIC, Slovenia

NIC is primarily invested in chemical (process) engineering, reactor and unit operation design and construction, and multi-scale process modelling. The Department topics include carbon dioxide and natural gas conversion, hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, biomass valorisation to bio-based compounds, and (bio)pharmaceutical processes.

Associated partners

University of Ljubljana

Slovenia


Italy

Silvia Bordiga

University of Turin
Co-supervises the work for DC1, DC9, DC11.

Professor in Chemistry. Silvia applies spectroscopic methods in order to achieve a detailed understanding of the physicochemical nature of a large variety of nanostructured high surface area materials that find applications as heterogeneous catalysts.

Elisa Borfecchia

University of Turin
Co-supervises the work for DC4, DC12.

Associate Professor in Chemistry. Elisa has a strong background in physical chemistry/material science and a consolidated experience on the use of in situ/operando synchrotron-based X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy.

Nadia Barbero

University of Turin
Co-supervises the work for DC7.

Associate Professor in Chemistry.

Beneficiaries

University of Turin

UNITO, Italy

The Physical Chemistry group at UNITO (Chemistry Department and NIS Centre) has a long-term internationally recognised expertise in the characterisation of surfaces and interfaces of nanostructured materials, in the field of heterogeneous catalysis. In situ and operando spectroscopies in controlled atmosphere will be applied to the materials under study in order to describe, at atomic level, the Fe species formed under reaction conditions and to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the physical-chemical properties and reactivity of the DEMO (bio)-heterogeneous catalysts.


United Kingdom

Annette Alcabasas

Johnson Matthey
Co-supervises the work for DC13.

Expert in molecular biology.

Beneficiaries

Johnson Matthey

JM, United Kingdom

As a global leader in sustainable technologies, JM applies our cutting-edge science to create solutions with our customers that make a real difference to the world. JM is leader in the field for more than 200 years, applying unrivalled scientific expertise to enable cleaner air, improved health and the more efficient use of our planet’s natural resources. As the world faces the challenges of climate change and resource scarcity, JM has an even bigger role to play. JM will be central in accelerating the big transitions needed in transport, energy, chemicals production and creating a circular economy. JM employs nearly 14.000 people, among which 1.500 working in R&D.


The Netherlands

Associated partners

Yellow Research

The Netherlands

YR is the top training company in the field in writing personal research grants. YR is specialised in supporting PIs in the writing of ERC individual grant or synergy grant. YR collaborates with top universities in EU to train the most talented researchers in writing such grant. Beside preparing researchers in thinking about high-gain/high-risk research, YR is involved in the discussions with representatives of university management in the development of strategies to focus research staff on excellent research as well as strategies with regard to tenure tracks.