Plenary speakers

in alphabetical order:

  • Georg Gescheidt-Demner / Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Austria
  • Ladislav Kavan / J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
  • Sixto Malato / Plataforma Solar de Almeria, Spain
  • Mark James Muldoon / School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen`s University Belfast, UK

Keynote speakers in alphabetical order

  • Andrzej Kotarba / Materials and Surface Chemistry Group, Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Poland,
  • Milan Kralik / Research Institute of Chemical Technology a.s., Slovak Republic,
  • Günther Rupprechter / Institute of Materials Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Austria,
  • Gyorgy Szollosi / Organic Catalysis Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary,
  • Radek Zboril / Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic

Symposium Topics

As 24 years long tradition the symposium covers most standard topics of the catalytic research. The main areas are:

  • Homogeneous catalysis – including catalysis for fine chemicals, organometallic catalytic complexes, regioselectivity and stereoselectivity aspects in catalysis, etc.
  • Heterogeneous catalysis – including preparation and characterisation of the catalysts, applied catalysis, theoretical fundaments of catalysis, noble metal catalysts, zeolites, etc.
  • Environmental catalysis and photocatalysis – including semiconducting photocatalysts, photoinduced charge separation processes, electrocatalysis, photocatalytic oxidation processes, etc.
  •  Industrial catalytic processes – including catalysis in industrial technologies, large scale operations, petrochemistry, polymers production, catalysts for inorganic commodities, operation unit design, process optimisation, etc.
  • Catalysis related materials research and nanotechnology – including surface sciences, bottom-up approaches, molecular templating, etc.
  • Biocatalysis – including enzyme catalysis, catalytic biotechnologies, DNA catalysis, etc.
  • New trends and mathematical modelling – including catalytic microreactors, lab-on-chip catalysis, DFT models, etc.