ITQ Severo Ochoa Lecture «Photocatalytic and sorption materials for water and air treatment» – Prof. Beata Tryba y Prof. Jacek Przepiórski
¡Os invitamos a una nueva sesión de ITQ Severo Ochoa Lecture!
El próximo jueves 24 de abril contaremos con la Prof. Beata Tryba y el Prof. Jacek Przepiórski de la West Pomeranian University of Technology (Szczecin, Poland) quienes impartirán la charla «Photocatalytic and sorption materials for water and air treatment».
- Jueves 24 de abril de 2025 (12:30h)
- Salón de Actos del ITQ (UPV-CSIC)
Prof. Beata Tryba
Prof. Beata Tryba is a researcher employed at the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland, since 2000. She works in the field of water treatment technology and photocatalysis. She has studied various sorption materials, such as activated carbon and exfoliated graphite for water treatment and TiO2-based photocatalytic materials for environmental applications, such as photocatalytic paints, bacterial inactivation, hydrogen generation, air and water purification. For 2 and a half years she worked in a Japanese group as a postdoctoral student and developed TiO2 materials coated with carbon, later also modified with iron species. TiO2-coated carbon materials showed comprehensive properties, such as high adsorption capacity and photocatalytic activity, and those modified with iron were additionally active in the photo-Fenton process and generated a large amount of hydroxyl radicals. Prof. Beata Tryba worked in the COST project “Phonasum” (Photocatalytic Technologies and New Nano-Surface Materials – Critical Issues) in the years 2006-2010. During her work in this project she visited CSIC – Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica in Madrid (Spain) for two weeks (STSM program) and worked with Prof. Jose Conesa on the topic of radical detection by EPR technique. Currently, prof. Beata Tryba is the head of the NCN (National Science Center) project “Research on photocatalytic decomposition of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in a fluidized bed reactor”. Another research area carried out in prof. Tryba’s group is the study of photocatalytic composites based on metal foams and TiO2. These are very promising materials that have shown high photocatalytic activity towards removal of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
Prof. Jacek Przepiórski
Prof. Jacek Przepiórski, since 1998 is a scientist and academic teacher at the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin. He specializes in carbon materials in terms of their use for gas and liquid purification and in catalysis, including photocatalysis. His main interests include hybrid porous materials, some aspects of coating formation, phenomena accompanying chemical processes and photocatalysis. He prefers innovative and unconventional approaches to problems in materials science and chemical engineering. He obtained his PhD in Japan (1998) and worked there as a post-doc (NEDO, AIST), mainly on the development of highly effective sorption materials for gas purification and on the unconventional introduction of dopants to solid materials. Internationally he cooperated mainly with Japanese teams (prof. A. Oya, M. Inagaki, M. Toyoda) and Spanish teams (Prof. Elena Perez-Mayoral, UNED). After 8 years as vice-rector, he recently returned to intensive research activities, implementing a project related to photocatalytic conversion of siloxanes in water. He works closely with Prof. B. Tryba, and recently with researchers from ITQ, which resulted in submitting a project to the Horizon program, submitting a publication and starting work on further ones. He works closely with industry, mainly as an advisor and solving various operational problems.
