B.M. Weckhuysen

Faculty of Science
Utrecht University
Netherlands

Professor Chemistry
Biography

Bert Weckhuysen is Distinguished Professor at Utrecht University’s Faculty of Science. After obtaining his Master’s degree and PhD from Leuven University, he worked as a postdoc at Lehigh University and Texas A&M University in the US. Since October 2000, Weckhuysen has been working as a full professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis at Utrecht University. The central research theme of the Weckhuysen group is the development of structure-activity relationships in the field of heterogeneous catalysis and materials science with special emphasis on the use of advanced spatiotemporal characterization techniques under realistic reaction conditions.

Research Intrest

Inorganic Chemistry

List of Publications
D.E. Perea, I. Arslan, J. Liu, Z. Ristanovic, L. Kovarik, B.W. Arey, J.A. Lercher, S.R. Bare and B.M. Weckhuysen, Determining the Location and Nearest Neighbors of Aluminum in Zeolites with Atom Probe Tomography, Nature Communications 2015, 6, 7589.
B.M. Weckhuysen, Porous Materials: Zeolites Shine Bright, Nature Materials 2016, 15, 933-934 (News & Views article).
Y. Liu, F. Meirer, C.M. Krest, S. Webb and B.M. Weckhuysen, Relating structure and composition with accessibility of a single catalyst particle using correlative 3-dimensional micro-spectroscopy, Nature Communications 2016, 7, 12634.

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