Education
He studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Alicante, and later obtained his Doctor of Philosophy cum laude at TUDELFT (2002).
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Javier Perez-Ramirez
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Career
He worked for Norsk Hydro and Yara International and returned to academia as a ICREA research professor at the Catalan Institute of Chemical Research of the Rovira i Virgili University (2005-2009). Pérez-Ramírez"s central research focuses on the fundamental design and technical development of new heterogeneous catalysts and reactor engineering concepts, favoring the more efficient and sustainable manufacturing within the chemical industry, such as his development of novel catalysts for the gas-phase oxidation of hydrogen chloride (Deacon process) and his groundbreaking work in the rational design of hierarchical zeolites. He is the Swiss representative of the European Federation of Catalysis Societies.
Pérez-Ramírez"s work of nearly 400 articles and 13 patents has been recognized by several major prizes, including the Beilby Medal and Prize (2014), European Federation of Catalysis Societies Young Researcher Award (2013), Gesellschaft für Chemische Technik und Biotechnologie (Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology) Otto Roelen Medal (2012), the Andrew Main lectureship (2013), the Universal Oil Products-Honeywell Invitational Lectureship (2012), and the KNCV Prijs voor Katalyse (2003).
Membership
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2013 and a scientific member of the advisory board of the Max-Planck Institute for Coal Research in 2015.
