Bert Sels#
| Membership Number: | 5877 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://sels-group.eu |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9657-1710 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 Professor (full Professor since 2012)
- 2020 Founder and Head of the Center for Sustainable Catalysis and Engineering (CSCE) / Catholic University Leuven / faculty of Bioscience Engineering / Department Molecular and Microbiological Sciences (M2S) / Belgium
- 2019 Visiting Professor Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou / China
- 2018 Co-founder and Board Member of the KULeuven Spin-Off Company ZEOPORE http://www.zeopore.com
- 2018 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2017 Associate Editor of the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering https://pubs.acs.org/journal/ascecg
- 2015 Head of the Division Bio-refinery and Sustainable Chemistry / Catholic University Leuven
- 2008 Co-founder of the European Research Institute of Catalysis (ERIC)
- 2017 - 2019 Co-chair of the Catalysis Commission of the International Zeolite Association (IZA)
- 2016 - 2019 Head of the Center for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (COK) / Catholic University Leuven / Belgium
- 2014 - 2018 Member of the Research Council of the Catholic University Leuven / Belgium
- 2008 - 2016 Board Member of the Catalysis Commission of the International Zeolite Association (IZA)
- 2008 - 2011 Secretary of the Dutch Zeolite Association (DZA)
- 2004 Visiting Researcher University of Cape Town / South Africa in the frame of the Flemish – South African Bilateral Research Agreements
- 2005 - 2012 Guest / Assistant / Associate Professor
- 2003 - 2005 Postdoctoral position (funded by FWO), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering / Center for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (COK) / Catholic University Leuven / Belgium
- 2000 - 2003 Postdoctoral research position at KULeuven / Belgium, and visiting researcher BASF (with Ulrich Müller) Ludwigshafen / Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Biorefinery
- Methane Activation
- Renewable Chemistry
- Catalytic Site Characterization
- Catalysis
Honours and Awards
- 1996 1st price of the Royal Flemish engineers community KVIV / Belgium
- 2001 1st price international DSM chemistry award, Kerkrade / The Netherlands
- 2005 The ‘Incentive Award 2005’, of the Société Chimie Belge, Brussels / Belgium
- 2009 First Clean Tech Challenge (London UK)
- 2011 Green Footsteps Award Taminco (now Eastman, Ghent BE)
- 2012 UMICORE Research Award (Leuven), BE)
- 2013 TOTAL Research Award (Feluy, BE)
- 2015 The ‘Green Chemistry’ Award 2015, La Rochelle, France
- 2018 Nominated membership of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2019 INEOS research Award (Antwerp)
