The 14th Annual Eastman Distinguished Lecturers in Catalysis (online)

Details:

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley is pleased to announce the 14th Annu­al East­man Dis­tin­guished Lec­tur­ers in Catal­y­sis. The lec­tures will be held online via Zoom on Thurs­day, Novem­ber 19, 2026, from 8:00 to 11:00 AM Pacif­ic Stan­dard Time (11:00 AM – 2:00 PM EST; 16:00 – 19:00 UTC). The NACS com­mu­ni­ty is warm­ly encour­aged to attend.

Lec­tur­ers and Talks

Fanx­ing Li – Thomas M. Clausi Dis­tin­guished Pro­fes­sor, North Car­oli­na State University
“Dynam­ic Redox Catal­y­sis with Mul­ti­func­tion­al Mixed Met­al Oxides”

Aditya Bhan – Dis­tin­guished McK­night Uni­ver­si­ty Pro­fes­sor, Uni­ver­si­ty of Min­neso­ta Twin Cities
“Selec­tive cat­alyt­ic com­bus­tion of ter­mi­nal alkynes in mix­tures with alkenes”

Jeroen A. van Bokhoven – Pro­fes­sor, Depart­ment of Chem­istry and Applied Bio­sciences, ETH Zurich, and Head of the Lab­o­ra­to­ry for Catal­y­sis and Sus­tain­able Chem­istry, Paul Scher­rer Insti­tute, Switzerland
“Char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of methanol-syn­the­sis cat­a­lysts from car­bon diox­ide at high pressure”

Liang-Shih Fan – Dis­tin­guished Uni­ver­si­ty Pro­fes­sor and C. John Eas­t­on Pro­fes­sor in Engi­neer­ing, The Ohio State University
“Chem­i­cal Loop­ing Tech­nol­o­gy for Clean Ener­gy and Chem­i­cal Production”

Reg­is­tra­tion (Zoom webinar):
https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q4-p-JdUR92B86h2VSheXQ

Event infor­ma­tion:
https://events.berkeley.edu/events/event/290572-the-fourthteenth-annual-eastman-distinguished-lecture

The full pro­gram, with abstracts and speak­er biogra­phies, is attached. 

Gen­er­ous sup­port for this lec­ture series is pro­vid­ed by Eastman.