Catalytic Biomass Conversion

Prof.Abhaya Datye is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering and Director of the Center for Microengineered Materials, University of New Mexico, USA. He received his BS in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India and was awarded his PhD from the University of Michigan, USA in 1984. Prof Datye?s research focuses on understanding heterogeneous catalysis at the atomic level. Prof. Datye has more than 20 publicaiton, one patent, Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Catalysis and is on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed journals.

Prof. Robert Schloegl is the Director of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany. Prof. Schlögl was awarded his PhD from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany in 1982. He expanded his research during his postdoctoral stays with Sir John Meurig Thomas at Cambridge University, UK and Prof. H. J. Güntherodt, Institut für Physik, Basle, Switzerland. He then continued his catalytic work in his advanced scientific studies targeting on "understanding the structure of industrial ammonia-synthesis catalysts" at the Fritz-Haber-Institute in Berlin, where RS was associated with Professor Gerhard Ertl, now a Nobel Laureate. In 1989 he was awarded the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Frankfurt before he was appointed Director of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the Fritz-Haber-Institute. Prof. Schloegl has more than 500 publications, 20 patents and is on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed journals.