!!!Bert Sels \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='Sels_Bert.jpg' alt='Bert Sels' height='220'}] %% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\ \\ \\ \\ __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__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __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) \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/Sels_Bert/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/Sels_Bert/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Sels_Bert/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Other information|User/Sels_Bert/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}] [{ALLOW edit bsels}] [{ALLOW upload bsels}] [{ALLOW comment All}]