The-authors

Professor Hans Niemantsverdriet

• 1951 Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 1978 M.Sc. in Experimental Physics
• Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 1983 Ph.D. Technical Sciences, Delft University
  of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
• 1984 C. en C. Huygens fellow of the Netherlands
  Organization of Research (NWO) at Eindhoven
  University of Technology, the University of
  Munich and Fritz-Haber-Institute at Berlin
• 1989 Associate Professor at the Department of
  Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at the
  Eindhoven University of Technology
• 1999 Professor Physical Chemistry of Surfaces a
  Eindhoven University of Technology
• Hans Niemantsverdriet is author of Spectroscopy
  in Catalysis (VCH, Weinheim 1993), coauthor of
  Chemical Kinetics and Catalysis (together with
  R.A. van Santen; Plenum, New York, 1995) and
  (co)author of more than 150 publications. He
  was President of the European Federation of
  Catalysis Societies, and has been Associate
  Editor of the Journal of Catalysis since 1996.                          

Professor Ib Chorkendorff

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• 1955 Born in Svendborg, Denmark
• 1982 M.Sc. in Physics and B.Sc. in Chemistry, Odense
  University, Denmark
• 1985 Ph.D. degree in Physics, Odense University, Denmark
• 1986 Post-doc with Professor John T. Yates Jr. at the Surface
  Science Center, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• 1987 Associate Professor at the Department of Physics,
  Technical University of Denmark
• 1999 Professor in Heterogeneous Catalysis at CINF, DTU
• Ib Chorkendorff has been the author or co-author of more than
  100 scientific papers and one patent. He is active within
  surface science and heterogeneous catalysis and has been
  heading a number of larger research initiatives in Denmark,
  spanning from materials science to future energy research. He
  has been awarded the Brinch award and is an elected member
  of The Danish Academy of Natural Sciences (DNA) and The
  Academy for Technical Sciences (ATV).