Invited speakers

Plenary lectures

Guido Busca

University of Genoa, Italy

“Infrared studies on the localization of acid sites on microporous materials”

Masakazu Iwamoto

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

"Metathesis of olefins on nickel ion-loaded mesoporous silica"

Vlado Kanazirev

UOP LLC, USA

“Industrial applications of micro- and mesoporous materials in adsorption technology”

Rutger A. van Santen

Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

“Modeling of zeolite catalysis”

Michael StÖcker

SINTEF, Norway

"Biofuels/biomass-to-liquids (BTL) within the biorefinery concept: the catalytic conversion of biomass using porous materials"

Keynote lectures

Helmut Knözinger

University of Munich, Germany

“Infrared characterization of Au/NaY catalysts”

Jeroen A. van Bokhoven

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

“Structure and activity of crystalline and amorphous microporous and mesoporous alumina-silicates”

Alain Walcarius

CNRS – University of Nancy, France

"Electrochemistry with mesoporous materials"