Sustainable Catalysis by Design
Our research community is currently composed of academic staff, research fellows, and PhD students at the University of Warwick (UK), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) and Univerza v Ljubljani (Slovenia). We are actively looking to expand, so if you are interested in joining the community then please get in touch!
Primary investigators
Synthetic organometallic chemistry and catalysis with a supramolecular twist. Activation of alkanes and nitrous oxide.
Synthetic chemist specialising at the interface between organocatalysis and main group catalysis. Development of novel catalysts that operate through unconventional non-covalent interactions.
Synthetic inorganic chemist working at the interface between molecular and materials chemistry. Design of metal oxo cluster molecules and metal oxide materials for use in photocatalysis.
Photoelectrochemistry and photoelectrocatalysis for solar oxygen, fuel and chemical production in terrestrial and microgravity environments.
Frank De Proft
Concepts and computation of reactivity descriptors for insights into the reactivity of atoms, molecules and solids.
Mercedes Alonso Giner
Modern computational tools and conceptual methods towards for understanding and predicting the reactivity of organic or inorganic molecules. Design of sustainable chemical processes.
Frederik Tielens
Computational materials modelling, specialising in silica, self assembled monolayers/noble metals, and biocalcifications.
Heterogeneous catalysis and photocatalysis for environmental technologies, including water treatment and greenhouse gas utilisation.
EUTOPIA Science and Innovation Fellow working on the design and application of pincer complexes for the synthetic exploitation of nitrous oxide.
PhD students
EUTOPIA Co-tutelle PhD student working on the organometallic chemistry of cycloalkane-based metallocatenanes. Supervised by Chaplin/Alonso.
EUTOPIA Co-tutelle PhD student working on the
optimisation of Ti-oxo cluster based materials for photocatalysis. Supervised by Pike/De Proft/Tielen.
EUTOPIA Co-tutelle PhD student working on a fundamental understanding of chalcogen bonding. Supervised by Greenhalgh/Alonso/De Proft.