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Emiel J.M. Hensen

Emiel Jan Maria Hensen is a prominent Dutch chemist and currently professor of Inorganic Materials and Catalysis at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Hensen focuses on developing novel catalysts for a more sustainable future.[1] His research areas are heterogeneous catalysis, kinetics and mechanism, modelling and energy conversion.[2] He and his staff members lead a team of more than 50 scientists including PhD students, postdoctoral research fellows and Master and Bachelor students. [3]

During interviews, he shared that resolving the atomic-scale working principles of catalysts by uncovering the reaction mechanisms is the most exciting his research would lead him to. Hensen believes that seeing young scientists develop under his guidance is his biggest motivation.[4]

Biography

Hensen was born in Geleen, The Netherlands, on February 5th 1971. He studied chemical engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology in Eindhoven (TU/e) and obtained his Master degree in 1994. He obtained a PhD degree in 2000 from the same institution under the supervision of Prof. Rutger van Santen and Prof. Rib van Veen. During his PhD, he studied transition metal sulphide catalysts used for desulfurization of oil.[5]

Hensen continued his career in academia by moving to the University of Amsterdam. He worked as an assistant professor in the group of Professor Berend Smit. In 2001, he returned to Eindhoven to become an assistant professor at TU/e. Between 2006 and 2008, he worked for Shell Research and Technology Centre Amsterdam sponsored by a Casimir grant from the Dutch government. He was promoted associate professor of TU/e in 2008 and full professor in 2009 chairing the Inorganic Materials and Catalysis group of the department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at TU/e. He has been a visiting teaching professor for 15 years (2001-2016) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He has an extensive network of collaborators around the world. The most prominent collaborations are with Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (where he now serves as a member of the international advisory board), Xiamen University, and Jilin University in China, VITEC in Thailand and Hokkaido University in Japan. He spent a sabbatical year at Hokkaido University in 2016.

From 2016 to 2020, Hensen served as the Dean of the department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry of Eindhoven University of Technology.[6] Emiel Hensen is an active member of theNetherlands Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Blocks Consortium (ARC-CBBC), the chairman of the Netherlands Institute for Catalysis Research (NIOK) and a member of the management team of the national (Dutch) program Multiscale Catalytic Energy Conversion (MCEC). He is a foreign expert at the Xiamen University and Jilin University in China. He also serves as the Dutch representative in the board of the European Research Institute of Catalysis (ERIC).[7]

Prize and Grants

Emiel Hensen obtained prestigious Veni, Vidi and Vici grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).[8] In 2002, he was awarded a Veni grant on a topic related to valorization of lower paraffins. In 2006, he became a Casimir grant laureate allowing him to work as a visiting scientist at Shell research. Hensen was awarded a Vidi grant in 2007 for developping hierarchically porous catalysts and obtained in 2013 both Vici and TOP grants for carrying out research respectively on structure sensitivity and in-situ x-ray diffraction investigations of catalyst nanoparticles. [9]

Research activities (publications)

Hensen co-authored more than 550 papers published in renowned scientific journals.[10]

Educational activities

Hensen is involved in teaching activities in the bachelor and master curriculum of TU/e with focus on catalysis and inorganic chemistry. His research group hosts every year many MSc. and BSc. students for the completion of their end projects.

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References

  1. ^ "Emiel Hensen". www.tue.nl. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  2. ^ "Emiel J. M. Hensen". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57 (10): 2528–2528. 2018. doi:10.1002/anie.201712847. ISSN 1521-3773.
  3. ^ "Inorganic Materials & Catalysis". Eindhoven University of Technology research portal. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
  4. ^ "Emiel J. M. Hensen". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57 (10): 2528–2528. 2018. doi:10.1002/anie.201712847. ISSN 1521-3773.
  5. ^ "Web of Science | Clarivate Analytics". app.webofknowledge.com. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  6. ^ "Emiel Hensen new dean Chemical Engineering". www.cursor.tue.nl. 2016-09-15. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  7. ^ "Emiel Hensen speaker page".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ "Emiel Hensen". www.tue.nl. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
  9. ^ "Emiel Hensen". www.tue.nl. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  10. ^ "Emiel J.M. Hensen". Eindhoven University of Technology research portal. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
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