💡 ITQ Inspire Lab
El próximo 12 de mayo de 2025 vuelve una nueva edición de ITQ Inspire Lab: Managing YOUR Science.
En esta ocasión contaremos con el Prof. Jean Pierre Gilson, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus. Laboratory of Catalysis & Spectrochemistry (LCS), ENSICAEN, Caen (France).
- Lunes 12 de mayo de 2025 (15:30h)
- Salón de Actos del ITQ (UPV-CSIC)
En la jornada se tratarán los siguientes puntos:
- El Prof. Gilson explicará el proceso entre invención e innovación.
- Presentará las etapas y realizará preguntas clave.
- Se realizará un debate con investigadores jóvenes.
La jornada supone una gran oportunidad para aprender de su experiencia académica e industrial.
EN: First, Prof Gilson will begin by outlining the pathway between an invention and innovation, and the different steps in this arduous trip. He will also pose a series of thought-provoking questions related to this topic, which will set the basis for an open discussion with the young researchers. This meeting offers a valuable opportunity to benefit from Prof. Gilson’s extensive experience in both academia and industry.
Jean-Pierre GILSON
Jean-Pierre received his PhD in physical chemistry at the University of Namur (Belgium) under the guidance of Prof. Eric Derouane.
He started a 15-year industrial career in the US (UOP and Grace) and Europe (Shell, The Netherlands and France) in the design and commercial deployment of heterogeneous catalytic processes.
He moved to academia as a Professor of Catalysis in France and joined the LCS to develop his research. He designed a new curriculum (Catalytic Processes for Energy and Environment) and was the LCS Director for three four-years terms; the laboratory received the highest mark, A+, at the end of his last mandate. He expanded the scope of the LCS by adding new spectroscopic techniques (solid state NMR, Raman, UV-VIS) and a now large group dedicated to the preparation, characterization and application of nanoporous materials. He took a leave of absence from LCS to be attached for 4 years in the downstream R&D of Total (now TotalEnergies) as Director of their external research cooperations. He was awarded, together with Dr. Nesterenko (TotalEnergies), the Industrial Chair “NanoCleanEnergy” to investigate new routes to separate and upgrade natural gas within the Energy and Materials transitions.
He published 130+ peer reviewed papers and holds 50+ patent families. In industry, as a junior researcher, he contributed to the development of C3-4 and C6-9 paraffins aromatization catalysts (UOP), FCC catalysts and additives (Grace) and later, as a senior researcher, headed a team to develop 3 successfully commercialized catalysts for light naphtha (C5-6) isomerization, selective Ethylbenzene/Xylene isomerization to p-Xylene, Fischer-Tropsch heavy waxes hydro-isomerization and-cracking (Shell).
Jean-Pierre was a 1000 Talent Professor at DICP and invited Professor in China (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Dalian and Jilin University, Changchun), Belgium (U. Namur) and Czechia (Charles University) and Scientific Advisor for some large energy companies.
