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• About us
• Background and Summary
• Vision and Ethos
• Exploitation of Facilities
• Catalysis facilities at Harwell Campus
• Management Structure
• Professor Charlotte K. Williams OBE FRS
• Team Members
• Professor Andrew Beale
• Professor Richard Catlow
• Professor Matthew Davidson
• Professor Anthony Green
• Doctor Amanda Jarvis
• Professor Christopher Hardacre
• Professor Graham Hutchings
• Professor Adrian Mulholland
• Professor Matthew Rosseinksy
• Doctor Josie Goodall
• Doctor Abraham Nieva de la Hidalga
• Hub III Research
• Research Project Call 2025
• Flexible Fund
• Infrastructure and Equipment
• Phase II Research
• Core
• Optimising predicting and designing new catalysts
• Catalysis at the Water and Energy Nexus
• Catalysis for the Circular Economy and Sustainable Manufacturing
• Exemplar Projects with the UK Catalysis Hub
• Phase I Research
• Pathways to Impact
• Catalysis for net zero
• Importance of Catalysis for Achieving Net Zero
• Watch now – On The Mechanism of Catalytic Methanol Synthesis
• Watch Now Early Career Researcher symposium – Lignins
• Developing operando synchrotron techniques for understanding CO2 to Methanol Catalysts
• Watch now – Catalysts for Polymer Degradation: Progress and Potential
• Catalysis an essential tool for net zero presentation by Dr Josie Goodall
• Sustainable fuels and chemicals from biomass by Dr Christopher M. A. Parlett
• Video on Net Zero research work by PhD student James Counter at the B07 beamline, Diamond Light Source
• Stable and economic catalysts for green hydrogen
• Dr Xue Han from the University of Manchester on her project and net zero research exploiting low grade thermal energy
• Nanostructured Solid/Liquid Acid Catalysts for Glycerol Esterification: The Key to Convert Liability into Assets
• Selective Polymerisation
• Fracking wastewater treatment: Catalytic performance and life cycle environmental impacts of cerium-based mixed oxide catalysts
• Methanol to hydrocarbons (MTH) for Net Zero
• Direct Hydrogenation of Captured Carbon Dioxide using a Heterogeneous Catalyst
• Watch now – Catalysing green hydrogen generation
• Events
• Catalysis Hub Conferences
• Webinars
• Early Career Researcher webinar with Prof. Meera Mehta (Oxford) and Dr. Lucy Costley-Wood (UCL) - Watch now
• UK Catalysis Hub Events
• UK Catalysis Hub Summer Conference 2025
• Polymerisation and depolymerisation chemistry: the second century Faraday Discussion
• External Events
• Publications
• Hub I Publications
• Community
• BAG
• BAG at Diamond Light Source
• Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering (QENS) BAG at ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
• BAG Case Study: Quantitative production of butenes from biomass-derived γ-valerolactone catalysed by hetero-atomic MFI zeolite
• QENS BAG at ISIS Neutron and Muon Source webinar – Watch now
• How the Hub can help academics
• Events for Early Career researchers
• Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (MASC) Group Seminars – Call for ECR speakers
• SCI Materials Early Career Committee
• Visiting researchers
• ECR Experiences
• Dr Roong Jien Wong, Research Fellow at RMIT University
• Dr Brent Melot, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Southern California (USC)
• Dr Matthew Potter
• Dr Yaroslav Odarchenko
• JMT Medal 2025
• Dr Catherine Davies
• Dr Ellie Dann
• Dr Cristina Stere
• Dr Pip Hellier
• Industry – Interacting with the UK Catalysis Hub
• Workshops, Conferences and Events
• Co-funded projects – Impact and Industrial Relevance of Catalysis Hub Projects
• Case Study: Development of an Ambient Pressure Microreactor for In Situ Soft XAS
• Case study: Direct fixation of CO2
• Case Study: Development of XAFS methods for industrial applications
• Autonomous repair
• Impact Case Study: Biotechnology — Prof. Nigel Scrutton
• Selective Polymerisation
• Case study: Neutrons in Catalysis (Hub Harwell)
• RCAH Impact Fellows Report, Dr Simon Jacques, Manchester
• Network
• International interactions
• Women in Science
• Dr Veronica Celorrio
• Dr June Callison – Lab Manager
• Watch now - Accelerating discovery of substrate promiscuity in biocatalyzed oxidations
• Watch now – One step process for generating ultra pure alloy nanoparticle catalysts
• Congratulations to Prof. Charlotte Williams on receiving OBE
• External Opportunities
• News
• Catalysis Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering (QENS) BAG at ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ISIS Neutron and Muon Source – Call
• UK Catalysis Hub III Research Projects 2025 call now open!
• Open for poster abstracts at our Summer Conference with 3 fantastic prizes
• UK CATALYSIS HUB III: Researching Catalysis for Net Zero and Sustainability
• ISIS Neutron and Muon Source (ISIS) feature article – Unlocking the secrets of catalysis with neutrons
• UK Catalysis Hub features in UKRI EPSRC article Catalysts: hidden heroes of modern industry
• Contact
• Studentships
• Computational insights into mxenes and zeolites as catalysts
• Data-driven discovery in supramolecular chemistry
• Kinetic Profiles as a Diagnostic Probe of Complex Multi-Cycle Catalytic Reaction Networks
• Down the Rabbit Hole: Illuminating the Organoiron Species Central to Chemical Synthesis
• Room Temperature Ethene to Propene (ETP) using a Cascade of Solid-State Molecular Organometallic Catalysts
• Uncovering Structure-Activity Relationships in Sustainable Polymerisation Catalysis
• Plasma catalysis: Knowledge gaps towards creating real synergy
• Engineering chemical reactor technologies for a low-carbon energy future
• Surface Nitrogen Transformation Pathways in Iron–Cobalt Ammonia Decomposition Catalysts Revealed by Operando Ambient Pressure X-
• From Electrons to Reactors: ab initio multi-scale simulation of methane oxidation over palladium oxide
• UK Catalysis Hub Summer Conference 2024 – Watch Now
• Winter Conference 2023 – Watch now
• Watch Now – UK Catalysis Hub Summer Conference 2023
• Watch Now – UK Catalysis Hub Winter Conference 2022
• Watch now – UK Catalysis Hub Summer Conference 2022
• UK Catalysis Hub Winter Conference 2021
• UK Catalysis Hub Virtual Summer Conference 2021 – Watch Now
• UK Catalysis Hub Winter Conference 2020 - Watch Now
• Junhao Huang – PhD visit opportunity LIKAT and UK Catalysis Hub
• Dr. Andrew Logsdail
• Dr. James McGregor
• Dr. Sherry Yiping
• Prof. Asterios Gavriilidis
• Dr Andrew C. Marr
• Prof David Lennon
• Prof. Adisa Azapagic
• Blog
• High-Throughput Approaches for the Discovery of Molecular Organic Materials
• Exploring the Impact of Cage Size and Framework Topology on Methanol-to-Olefins using Operando Spectroscopy
• Q&A on Equipment with Prof Andrew Beale
• Conversion of renewable feedstocks to advanced synthetic fuels by homogeneous Guerbet catalysis
• Privacy Policy
• Microbial Metabolites for Catalytic Hydrogenation
• UK Catalysis Hub Strategic Equipment call for expressions of interest 2025/2026
• UK Catalysis Hub BAG Call for B18 at Diamond Light Source
• Supporting Research
• Applied Catalysis for the Circular Economy III
• Vibrations at interfaces Faraday Discussion
• Bridging the gap from surface science to heterogeneous catalysis Faraday Discussion
• Sustainable chemistry of electrofuels and electrochemicals Faraday Discussion
• Probing Li-N-H catalysts for ammonia synthesis and decomposition
• JMT catalysis medal: Mid Career Call Open!
• JSPS International Fellowships for Research in Japan
• Neutrons and Simulations
• Dr Sarah Lovelock
• Materials chemistry poster symposium
• Dr James Paterson
• LAURELIN Final Conference: advancing E-fuel production innovation for Sustainable Transport
• PhD positions at EnerHy
• STFC leadership fellowships in public engagement
• Daphne Jackson fellowship
• Turing AI Pioneer Interdisciplinary Fellowships: outline applications
• EPSRC new investigator award: Nov 2023: responsive mode
• EPSRC overseas travel grant: Nov 2023 responsive model
• SUPERGEN BIOENERGY HUB BUSINESS INTERACTION VOUCHER SCHEME
• Quantum computing in materials and molecular sciences
• Rideal Travel Bursary
• Ollie Hodson
• EDI events & training survey
• PhD scholarship in generating green hydrogen out of thin air at Manchester Met
• HERCULES EUROPEAN SCHOOL: NEUTRONS & SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FOR SCIENCE
• X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) Data Analysis Workshop 2025
• Examining the fundamental structural and energetic aspects of CO2 adsorption in a MOF - new paper
• Dr Alexander O’Malley
• Beamline Scientist in the Imaging and Microscopy group F/M at ESRF
• Operando VIII - the 8th International Congress on Operando Spectroscopy
• UK Catalysis Hub & Solar Chemicals Network Joint Workshop
• The Parliamentary & Scientific Committee’s STEM for BRITAIN 2026
• Securing an independent academic research career - Funding Workshop
• UK CATALYSIS CONFERENCE 2026
• Postdoctoral Research Associate in ESR spectroscopy at Oxford
• Oxford EARTH Senior Research Associate in Chemistry and Materials for Natural Resource Innovation at Oxford
• PhD in Sustainable Aviation Fuel production by process intensification at Manchester
• RUEDI Energy Generation, Conversion & Storage Town Hall Event
• ERC Consolidator Grant
• Plasmo-Catalysis for Business Innovation: Industry Academia Workshop
• Catalysis for sustainable hydrogen production
• Research Associate in Computational Chemistry at Cardiff
• C-DICE: Getting Social: Social Media for Researchers
• Artificial Intelligence for Materials
• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Modelling of Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction at Oxford
• Research Associate in Organometallic Chemistry at Bath
• The Royal Society Career Development Fellowship
• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Catalytic Co2 Conversion at Liverpool
• ESAB CONGRESS 2025
• Research Associate in Heterogeneous Catalysis at Manchester