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报告人简介及报告摘要： Bert Sels教授简介： Bert Sels教授，于2000年获得博士学位，目前是比利时最大的学府KU Leuven的全职教授, 该校表面化学和催化中心主任。研究方向为多相催化，主要集中在生物炼制中的多相催化、层状沸石和碳基材料合成和小分子活化中活性中心的光谱学和动力学研究。发表学术论文近280篇， h指数达65及近13500次他引（Google Scholar）及25项国际专利。是国际沸石协会催化委员会联合主席，欧洲催化研究所的共同创始人，ACS Sustainable Chemistry Engineering副主编以及ChemSusChem, ChemCatChem杂志国际顾问委员会成员。曾获DSM Chemistry Award（2000）、比利时化学协会的the Incentive Award (2005)和Green Chemistry Award（2015）。报告1摘要： The role of heterogeneous catalysis in biomass conversion Bert F. Sels Prof. Dr. Ir. Currently full professor at KU Leuven，Center for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Heverlee Global feedstock supply under pressure due to shortness and geopolitical issues. Current transition of feedstock use implies a change from fossil oil into other resources like gas, coal and biomass. Strategies to convert each of them into chemicals and materials and the challenges associated with that goal are different for each alternative feedstock. Biomass, when sustainably harvested, is considered renewable and may have low carbon footprint. As long as the atom economy of the reactions to convert biomass into chemicals is high, use of biomass is an elegant solution to replace the fossil resources. Reactivity of a molecule is determined by its chemical functional groups. Biomass comprises a collection of beautiful chemical structures: alcohols and carbonyls in carbohydrates, amines in proteins, carboxylic acids and esters in triglycerides, aromatics in lignin and cyclic structures in terpenes. Next to technological challenges in the biorefinery, the emerging task of (bio) chemists is to discover reaction pathways to selectivity convert the original structures into useful ones. While biotechnology is able to deal with biomass feedstock, classic heterogeneous catalysis also will play a great role in that transformations. Even better, taking advantage of both worlds, joint conversions will likely be the best strategy in a biorefinery to produce a han