The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Catalysis Sciences
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Catalysis Sciences series
23–25 Apr 2025
catalytic reactions, catalytic processes, enzyme, catalytic mechanisms, green and sustainable, homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis
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Welcome from the Chairs
A. Catalytic Materials
We are confident that these sessions will provide an excellent opportunity to engage with distinguished experts, gain new insights, and establish valuable connections that will drive future research and innovation in the field of catalysis. We look forward to your active participation and contributions, which will undoubtedly enrich the scientific discourse and propel the field forward.
Professor Evangelos Topakas
School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Carl R. Ice College of Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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Event Chairs
School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Dr. Topakas holds a distinguished degree in Chemistry from Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, and earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Biotechnology from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2004. His academic journey includes impactful roles such as a Research Associate at the Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and the Biotechnology Laboratory at NTUA. In 2010, he served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Chalmers University, followed by his appointment as a Lecturer in January 2012 and subsequent promotions to Assistant Professor in November 2014 and Associate Professor in July 2019. As of December 2023, he holds the prestigious position of Professor in Industrial Biotechnology at the School of Chemical Engineering, Department of Synthesis and Development of Industrial Processes, NTUA. Since March 2015, Dr. Topakas has concurrently served as a Visiting Associate Professor in the Chemical Engineering Division of the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Natural Resources Engineering at Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. This dual role has expanded his collaborative efforts and enriched his experiences in Northern Europe.
Carl R. Ice College of Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
Dr. Keith Hohn is the Editor-in-Chief of Catalysts, an open access journal published by MDPI, and Associate Dean for Academic and Administrative Affairs and Professor in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering at Kansas State University. He received his PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1999. He then joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Kansas State University, where he worked for 20 years before moving to Miami University in 2019 as Department Chair and Professor in the Department of Chemical, Paper, and Biomedical Engineering. He returned to Kansas State University in 2024. Dr. Hohn’s research interests are in heterogeneous catalysis, with an emphasis on energy applications. In particular, he has researched the conversion of hydrocarbons and alcohols to hydrogen and catalytic processes for converting biomass to fuels and chemicals.
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Guido Busca
Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, The University of Genova, Genova, Italy
Prof. Dr. Jean-François Lamonier
Faculty of Science and Technology, Université de Lille, Lille, France
Dr. Vincenzo Baglio
CNR-ITAE Institute for Advanced Energy Technologies “N. Giordano”, Messina, Italy
Dr. José R. B. Gomes
Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Santiago University Campus, Aveiro, Portugal
Dr. Dominic R. Alfonso
Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, USA
Prof. Dr. Albin Pintar
Department of Inorganic Chemistry and Technology, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Prof. Dr. Donald Tryk
Fuel Cell Nanomaterials Center, University of Yamanashi, Japan
Prof. Dr. Narendra Kumar
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Industrial Chemistry and Reaction Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
Dr. Jingrun Ran
School of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Prof. Dr. Ioannis Konstantinou
Laboratory of Industrial Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
Prof. Dr. Frank Hollmann
Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Dr. Francesco Mauriello
Università degli Studi di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy
Event Committee
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Department of Environment and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
National Research University “Moscow Power Engineering Institute”, Moscow, Russia
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Industrial Chemistry and Reaction Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, Turku/Åbo, Finland
Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials, Environment of Sapienza - University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China
Organic Chemistry, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO), Polytechnique Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal
Department of Applied Physics, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain
Department of Chemistry Provost, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA
Department of Chemistry, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain
Istituto Di Tecnologie Avanzate Per L'energia, Messina, Italy
Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN) UMR CNRS-8520, University of Lille, Lille, France
Department of Chemical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy
Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, United States
Department of Physics, Hamline University, Saint Paul, United States
Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fujian, China
Energy Technology and Renewable Sources Department (TERIN)—ENEA—Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Portici, Italy
Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Department of Organic Chemistry and Technology, University of Technology, Budapest, Hungary
Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Bioinformatics, Institute of Integrative and Systems Biology, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
Particles and Catalysis Research Group, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Laboratory of General and Agricultural Microbiology, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Department of Chemistry - Ångström Laboratory, Structural Chemistry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Keynote Speakers
Institute of Technical Chemistry Leibniz Universität, Hannover, Germany
Department of Chemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
Department of Chemical Engineering, School of chemical Sciences,Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan, Republic of Korea
Clariant AG, Bruckmühl, Germany
Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Invited Speakers
Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Qingdao, China
Department of Chemical Engineering and Physical Chemistry, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain
Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, USA
Registration
The registration for ECCS 2025 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to all conference sessions.
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is the 20th of April 2025.
Instructions for Authors
ECCS 2025 will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
Important Deadlines
- Deadline for abstract submission: 16 December 2024.
- Announcement of oral and poster abstract results: 17 January 2025. You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.
Certificates of Participation are available in your logged-in area of Sciforum.net, under “My Certificates” after the conference.
1. The abstract structure should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 200–300 words in length.
2. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
3. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
Detailed Requirements:
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Note: We only accept live presentations.
The slot for the oral presentation is 15 mins. We advise that your presentation lasts for a maximum of 12 mins, leaving at least 3 mins for the Q&A session. Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the abstract. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly on the website using the proprietary slide viewer at Sciforum.net. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results are presented. Slides should be converted to PDF format prior to submission so that they can be converted for online display.
- Poster should include the title, authors, contact details and main research findings, as well as tables, figures and graphs where necessary.
- File format: PDF (.pdf).
- Size in pixel: 1080 width x 1536 height–portrait orientation.
- Size in cm: 38,1 width x 54,2 height–portrait orientation.
- Font size: ≥16.Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3).
You can use our free template to create your poster. The poster template can be downloaded HERE.
Authors who wish to present a poster are invited to send it to the conference email at eccs2025@mdpi.com. All posters will be permanently exhibited online in the Poster Gallery.
It is the author's responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunities
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue "Catalysis for the Future", published in Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344, Impact Factor 3.8), with a 10% discount on the publication fee. Please note that no other discounts are applicable. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of the 3rd international electronic conference on catalysis sciences in journal Chemistry Proceedings (ISSN: 2673-4583); if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference. There will be no additional fees.
Proceedings submission deadline: 6 June 2025.
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:
Title.
Full author names.
Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses.
Abstract.
Keywords.
Introduction.
Methods.
Results and Discussion.
Conclusions.
Acknowledgements.
References.
ECCS 2025 Proceeding Paper Template
Event Awards
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 6
The Best Poster Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
Sponsors and Partners
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Organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Bella Zhang
Dr. Maeve Yue
Ms. Janine Li
Ms. Theodora Felegean
Email: eccs2025@mdpi.com
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.
A. Catalytic Materials
Exploring the synthesis, characterization, and application of novel catalytic materials. Discussions will cover advancements in catalyst design, including nanomaterials and porous structures, and their roles in enhancing catalytic performance.
Session Chair
Prof. Dr. Narendra Kumar, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Industrial Chemistry and Reaction Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
B. Environmental Catalysis
Focusing on catalytic processes aimed at addressing environmental challenges. Topics will include the development of catalysts for pollution control, water treatment, and sustainable chemical processes that minimize environmental impact.
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Jean-François Lamonier, Faculty of Science and Technology, Université de Lille, Lille, France
Prof. Dr. Albin Pintar, Department of Inorganic Chemistry and Technology, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
C. Photocatalysis
Exploring mechanisms and applications of photocatalysts. This session will cover light-driven catalytic reactions, advancements in semiconductor photocatalysts, and their applications in energy conversion and environmental remediation.
Session Chairs
Dr. Jingrun Ran, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Prof. Dr. Ioannis Konstantinou, Laboratory of Industrial Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
D. Electrocatalysis
Examining the role of catalysts in electrochemical reactions. Key areas of discussion will include fuel cells, electrolyzers, and batteries, with a focus on improving efficiency and developing new materials for electrocatalytic applications.
Session Chairs
Dr. Vincenzo Baglio, CNR-ITAE Institute for Advanced Energy Technologies “N. Giordano”, Messina, Italy
Prof. Dr. Donald Tryk, Fuel Cell Nanomaterials Center, University of Yamanashi, Japan
E. Biocatalysis
Exploring the use of natural catalysts, such as enzymes and microorganisms, in chemical processes. Sessions will address advancements in enzyme engineering, applications in synthetic biology, and the integration of biocatalysis into industrial processes.
Session Chair
Prof. Dr. Frank Hollmann, Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
F. Biomass Catalysis
Discussing the catalytic conversion of biomass into valuable chemicals and fuels. Topics will include the development of catalysts for bio-refining, the valorization of bio-based feedstocks, and the role of catalysis in sustainable energy production.
Session Chair
Dr. Francesco Mauriello, Università degli Studi di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy
G. Industrial Catalysis
Focusing on the application of catalysis in industrial processes. This session will highlight advancements in catalyst design for large-scale chemical production, process optimization, and the development of more sustainable industrial practices.
Session Chair
Prof. Dr. Guido Busca, Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, The University of Genova, Genova, Italy
H. Computational Catalysis
Exploring the use of computational methods to understand and predict catalytic behavior. Discussions will include modeling and simulation techniques, data-driven approaches, and the integration of computational tools in catalyst design and optimization.
Session Chairs
Dr. José R. B. Gomes, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Santiago University Campus, Aveiro, Portugal
Dr. Dominic R. Alfonso, Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, USA