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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 Martin Wilding
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)
UK Catalysis Hub Events
UK Catalysis Hub Summer Conference 2025
Polymerisation and depolymerisation chemistry: the second century Faraday Discussion
External Events
The 2025 Faraday Institution Conference
5th International solar fuels conference
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
Science for Policy Workshop from Network on Sustainable Chemistry for Net Zero
Recent Appointees in Materials Science (RAMS)
CBIC Chemical Biology Leadership Retreat for Early Career Researchers
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
Lecturer within Manchester Institute of Biotechnology at University of Manchester
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
NANOCHEMISTRY CAMP 2025 Iseo, Italy
17th International conference on materials chemistry (MC17)
1st International Conference on Sustainable Chemistry for Net Zero
Science for Policy Workshop from Network on Sustainable Chemistry for Net Zero
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
Research Fellow in Sustainable Additive Manufacturing at UCL
Research Fellow in Automation and Flow Reactor Engineering at Leeds
Research Fellow in Mechanochemistry, Catalysis and Plastic depolymerisation at Surrey
2 x Research Associate/Senior Research Associates in Greenhouse Gas Inverse Modelling at Bristol
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
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Microbial Metabolites for Catalytic Hydrogenation
Research Associate in Kinetics of Catalytic Biomass Waste Pyrolysis and Gasification at Heriot-Watt
Research Associate in Ultrafast Dynamics of Photoactive Proteins at Bristol
UK Catalysis Hub Strategic Equipment call for expressions of interest 2025/2026
UK Catalysis Hub BAG Call for B18 at Diamond Light Source
RUEDI Dynamics of Chemical Change Science Theme Town Hall Event
Global NMR Discussion Meetings online conference
EuropaCat 2025
SCHEMA Hub Autumn Conference