Each year the Francqui Foundation attributes Francqui Chairs to Belgian universities. In that way national and renowned international professors can be invited as guest lecturers. This academic year the Department of Chemistry of the University of Antwerp honors Prof. Bert Weckhuysen with a Francqui Chair. Promotor of the University of Antwerp is Prof. Bert U.W. Maes. 

Bert Weckhuysen, a Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University (The Netherlands), investigates the fundamentals of catalytic processes to make fuels and chemicals from renewable resources, including carbon dioxide, biomass and plastic waste. 

We are pleased to invite you to Professor Bert Weckhuysen’s inaugural lecture entitled ‘Towards a Circular Society: Dreams Become Reality with Catalysis’ on 23/4/2025 followed by a series of classes of excellences later this year. 

More information on Prof. Weckhuysen and his research can be found on the Weckhuysen website. 

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The program and the opportunity to register will be available in due course. 

Date
Wednesday 23 April 2025 at 4:30 p.m

Location
University of Antwerp - Campus Middelheim
Building G 
Middelheimlaan 1, 2020 Antwerpen