Date of Birth: 27 July 1968

Nationality: Belgian

Place of Birth: Aarschot, Belgium

Professor Bert M. Weckhuysen
Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University,Universiteitsweg 99, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands; b.m.weckhuysen@uu.nl

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL CAREER
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2018-to-date, Distinguished University Professor of Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
2012-2017, Distinguished Professor of the Faculty of Science at Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
2000-to-date, Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis at Utrecht University (the Netherlands)
1997-2000, Research Fellow of the Belgian National Science Foundation at KULeuven (Belgium)
1995-1997, Postdoctoral Fellow at Texas A&M University (USA) and Lehigh University (USA)1995, Ph.D. Degree at Leuven University (KULeuven) (Belgium)
1991, Master Degree at Leuven University (KULeuven) (Belgium)

SCIENTIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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Scientific Director of theo Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Blocks Consortium (ARC CBBC) (2016-to date)o Netherlands Center for Multiscale Catalytic Energy Conversion (MCEC) (2014-to date)o SmartMix research program on Biomass Catalysis funded by the Dutch government and chemicalindustries (CatchBio) (2006-2016)o Dutch Research School for Catalysis (NIOK) (2003-2013)
Serves/served on the editorial and/or advisory board of 15 scientific journals, including The Journal ofCatalysis, Chemical Society Reviews and Angewandte Chemie.
Elected member of the European Academy of Sciences, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences andArts and the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of a.o. the Max Plank Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion(Germany), Cardiff Catalysis Institute (UK), Center for Catalysis and Surface Science of Northwestern
University (USA) and State Key Laboratory of Catalysis in Dalian (China)
Knight in the Order of the Dutch LionSCIENTIFIC OUTPUT AND HONORS•••••••

Author and co-author of ~ 425 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals
Web of Science (January 4 2019) ~ 25,800 citations, with an average number of citations per paper of ~ 49
Hirsch index of 83 (Web of Science, January 4 2019)11 patents or patent applications
Editor or co-editor of three scientific books and author of 31 book chapters
56 PhD students graduated under his supervision at Utrecht University in the period 2000-2018Obtained prestigious scientific prizes, including the Gold Medal from the Royal Dutch Chemical Society, theDECHEMA Award from The Max Buchner Research Foundation, the Netherlands Catalysis and ChemistryAward, the Eminent Visitor Award of the Catalysis Society of South Africa, the Paul H. Emmett Award inFundamental Catalysis of the North American Catalysis Society, the International Catalysis Award of theInternational Association of Catalysis Societies, the Vladimir N. Ipatieff Lectureship in Catalysis fromNorthwestern University, the John Bourke Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Spinoza Awardfrom the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, the Kozo Tanabe Prize in Acid-Base Catalysis fromthe International Acid-Base Group and the Robert B. Anderson Award from the Canadian Catalysis Society.

RESEARCH TOPICS••Development and use of advanced spectroscopic and microscopy methods applied on heterogeneous
catalysts during preparation and real operation (i.e., the operando mode) in order to develop structureactivity relationships for catalytic processes
Catalytic conversion of fossil resources (i.e., crude oil and natural gas) as well as renewables, including
biomass, municipal waste and CO2, to transportation fuels, (bulk) chemicals and materials