Bert weckhuysen spinoza biography
Weckhuysen is best known for his developments in operando (micro)spectroscopy; imaging catalysis at macro, meso and micro scales, from the reactor down to interactions between single atoms and molecules....
Biography.
Bert Weckhuysen
Belgian chemist
Bert Marc WeckhuysenFRSC (born 27 July 1968) is a professor of inorganic chemistry and catalysis at Utrecht University, originally from Belgian descent.
Weckhuysen is best known for his developments in operando (micro)spectroscopy; imaging catalysis at macro, meso and micro scales, from the reactor down to interactions between single atoms and molecules. He was a winner of the 2013 Spinoza Prize, and was knighted in the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 2015.[1]
Biography
Weckhuysen was born on 27 July 1968 in Aarschot.[2] He studied chemistry and biology at Leuven.
He obtained his PhD in Leuven in 1995 under R. Schoonheydt with a thesis titled: Oppervlaktechemie van Cr aan anorganische oppervlakken. In 2000 Weckhuysen was appointed as professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis at Utrecht University.[2]
In 2020 Weckhuysen was head of a commission which wrote a proposal for new scientific funding in the