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Congratulations to the winners of the Green Chemistry and Reaction Chemistry & Engineering poster prizes at the Electrosynthesis Faraday Discussion!

28 Aug 2023

The Faraday Discussion on Electrosynthesis was held from 12-14 July 2023, in Edinburgh, UK and online. Green Chemistry and Reaction Chemistry & Engineering were pleased to support best poster prize awards at this event and we would like to congratulate our winners!

Green Chemistry winner

Mickaël Avanthay (University of Bristol, UK)

Poster title: Mediated Silane Oxidation: A practical and metal-free counter-electrode process for electrochemical reduction reactions

Mickaël completed his undergraduate studies at ETH Zürich and then completed the AstraZeneca R&D graduate program in Sweden before starting a PhD in the Lennox Lab (Bristol) to investigate reductive electrochemical methods. His areas of interest are novel defluorination methods and new techniques to make electrochemical reductions more practical and scalable.

Reaction Chemistry & Engineering winner

Zach Nguyen (University of Utah, USA)

Poster title: Electrolyte Induced Cage Effects for Enantioselective Electrosynthesis

Zach is currently completing his Ph.D. studies with Shelley Minteer at the University of Utah, where he also received a B.S. in chemistry. His current research interests are sustainable electro organic synthesis and mechanistic investigations using electrochemistry. Outside of chemistry, he enjoys exploring the Wasatch mountains, where he enjoys being an avid photographer, skier, and fisherman.

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Welcome Javier Pérez-Ramírez, our new Editorial Board Chair

18 Jan 2023

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Javier Pérez-Ramírez (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) has been appointed as the new Editorial Board Chair for Green Chemistry. We would like to thank Prof. Philip Jessop (Queen’s University), who is retiring as Chair, for his outstanding work within the journal.

Javier Pérez-Ramírez is Full Professor of Catalysis Engineering at ETH Zurich since 2010. His research pursues the nanoscale design of catalytic materials enabling the transition towards sustainable chemical and energy production. He studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Alicante and received his PhD degree at Delft University of Technology in 2002. He is a Highly Cited Researcher in the field of chemistry and his work has been recognized by several awards, most recently the Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis from the North American Catalysis Society in 2019, the EFCATS Robert K. Grasselli Award for Catalysis in 2021, and the Horizon Prize John Jeyes Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2022. In the period 2019-2021, he directed the Green Energy Flagship program at the National University of Singapore.

Javier founded and currently directs NCCR Catalysis, a Swiss Centre of Competence in Research devoted to the development of carbon-neutral chemicals across the whole value chain through catalytic processes.

Javier served as the Editor-in-Chief of Catalysis Science and Technology from 2019-2022. He works closely with industry to implement solutions, believes that the greatest challenges in chemistry are solved in multidisciplinary teams, and his not-so-secret passion is tennis.

“I’m honoured and excited to become the Chair of the Editorial Board of Green Chemistry and help to shape the journal’s leading role in publishing frontier research toward sustainable chemicals manufacture. In this endeavour, an important priority will be interfacing innovative green chemistry concepts with other relevant dimensions, including economic, political and societal aspects. The quantification of sustainability advances through metrics is crucial to progress in transitioning to a renewables based circular chemical enterprise ” – Javier Pérez-Ramírez

Read some of Javier’s Open Access papers in Green Chemistry:

Planetary metrics for the absolute environmental sustainability assessment of chemicals