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• About us
• Background and Summary
• Vision and Ethos
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• 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 deadline extended
• 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
• Dr James Paterson
• Daphne Jackson fellowship
• EPSRC new investigator award: Nov 2023: responsive mode
• EPSRC overseas travel grant: Nov 2023 responsive model
• Ollie Hodson
• EDI events & training survey
• HERCULES EUROPEAN SCHOOL: NEUTRONS & SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FOR SCIENCE
• Examining the fundamental structural and energetic aspects of CO2 adsorption in a MOF - new paper
• Dr Alexander O’Malley
• 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
• RUEDI Energy Generation, Conversion & Storage Town Hall Event
• ERC Consolidator Grant
• Plasmo-Catalysis for Business Innovation: Industry Academia Workshop
• Catalysis for sustainable hydrogen production
• Lindemann Trust Fellowships 2026-2028
• Prof. Sonya Calnan Loughborough
• HarwellXPS and B07 - Near Edge X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy (NEXAFS) training
• Asst. Prof. Nelson Y. Dzade at Penn State
• NERC Large grant outlines: February 2026
• Senior Chemist - Catalysts in Oxford
• SPR - Organometallic Chemistry book commissioning authors for the next volsume
• Paper on catalysts for polymer recycling in the Journal of the American Chemical Society
• The Royce Industrial Collaboration Programme (ICP)
• 8th International Conference on Chemical Looping ICCL
• Everyday Actions: Supporting Diversity in Catalysis Research
• PhD in Ocean biomass catalysis at Plymouth
• Senior Battery Application Engineer at Breathe
• NetDRIVE PhD Summer School:
• Bombannes Summer School 2026
• Frederica Butler wins RSC Chemical Sciences for Sustainability essay competition
• #RSCPoster
• Catalysis Science & Technology Symposium
• ReMADE@ARI Project Consortium Open Call for Proposals to Access ISIS and Other Facilities
• Computational Scientist in Coherent X-Ray Imaging at ESRF
• ECR Net Zero Conference 2026
• PhD in Revealing Solvents Under Confinement at Manchester
• UK Catalysis Hub Summer Conference 2026
• JMT catalysis medal winner announced
• PhD Position on Electrocatalyst Materials for Carbon Monoxide Conversion at Keele
• PhD in Designing Reactive Membranes for Sustainable One-Dimensional Catalysis at Bath
• SCI From molecules to mobility: The future of sustainable fuels
• PhD in Radicals on Demand from Sulfonium Salt Electron Donor-Acceptor Complexes at Bath
• PhD in Sustainable Catalysis with Sb and Bi Pincer Complexes at Manchester
• PhD in Chemistry: Sustainable Main Group Catalysis Using Frustrated Lewis Pairs at Cardiff
• Research Assistant/Associate at Cambridge
• CLF Artemis, Octopus and ULTRA User Meeting 2026
• BioCatUK 2026 - UK Meeting in Biocatalysis
• Light-driven chemistry for a sustainable future
• FAIR Data Management of Theoretical Spectroscopy and Green’s Function Methods
• ChemEngDayUK&I 2026
• HarwellXPS S2CI UK National Surface Science Capability for Industry
• Chem4Energy Annual Conference: Materials and Processes for a Sustainable Energy Future
• Innovate UK Business Connect - Innovation Exchanges (iXs)
• Surface-enhanced raman scattering Faraday Discussion
• XXV International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis (ISHC) 2027
• Understanding molecular catalysis through computation and experiment Faraday Discussion
• 22nd International conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry (ICBIC22)
• SCI Scholarships
• Merck Innovation Cup
• Research Fellow in Defect-Mediated Charge Transport at UCL
• Postdoctoral Researcher at ICIQ
• Governance Procedure
• Webinar: Materials studies for clean energy: how neutron and muon techniques can help​​
• Software Engineer at ICIQ
• Horizon - Development of safe and sustainable by design alternatives to Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
• Efficient capture/ purification/ utilisation of CO2 for the production of competitive products (RIA) (Processes4Planet partnership)
• Low-Middle Economy (LME) Scholarship scheme
• Small molecule high throughput screen using AstraZeneca facilities
• Pre-announcement: EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships 2027
• Associate Professor in Heterogeneous Catalysis at NTNU
• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford
• UK Catalysis Hub Opportunities
• Research Associate in FlowNMR for Self-Optimisation of Homogeneous Catalysis at Bath