Winter Conference 2023 – Watch now

When: 18 & 19 December 2023
Where: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Fermi Avenue, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX

On the 18th and 19th of December 2023 the UK Catalysis Hub held its annual winter conference and networking meeting. The Conference took place at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire. The event was a hybrid event so attendees had the option to attend virtually if they couldn’t attend in person.

The conference began at lunchtime on the 18th with lectures, the JMT medal presentation, a poster session in the evening of the 18th December and dinner by invitation. We were very happy to announce Dr Sarah Lovelock from University of Manchester as winner of the Sir John Meurig Thomas Catalysis Medal

Speakers included researchers from the Catalysis Hub and internationally renowned speakers and industrialists covering a range of topics in catalysis.

Speakers included:

Prof. Suzanne Blum, University of California, Irvine
Dr. Sudip Chakraborty, Harish-Chandra Research Institute
Prof. Jacqueline Cole, Cambridge
Dr. Michael Forde, University of the West Indies – Green Catalysis Examples and Insights from the Caribbean - Watch recording
Dr. Arthur Graf, Cardiff - PiFM: Deciphering the nano-world - Watch recording

Dr Yujie Ma, Manchester 
Dr. Thomas McGuire, Oxford
Dr. Pierre Moreau, Plastic Energy Ltd Acceleration of End-of-Life Plastic Chemical Recycling by Catalysis– Watch recording
Dr. Abraham Nieva de la Hidalga, Cardiff University - Using published data for the development of processing and analysis tools: XAS data processing use case – Watch recording
Dr. Andy Wain, National Physical Laboratory  Using In Situ Vibrational Spectroscopy to Probe (Electro)Catalytic Interfaces - Watch recording