Dr. Andre Van Veen

Biography

Andre C. van Veen was born in Issum, Germany in 1971. He studied chemistry at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, specializing in industrial chemistry, and graduated with a Diplom in 1997. He completed his PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in 2000 under the supervision of Martin Muhler. Following his doctoral studies, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse in Villeurbanne, France, and at the Max-Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim, Germany, where he worked with Ferdi Schüth. In 2003, he joined the CNRS as permanent staff (CR1), focusing on structured reactor systems. He later left Ruhr-Universität Bochum to take up the position of scientific coordinator at a collaborative research center (SFB 558) and subsequently became a group leader at Technische Universität München. In 2011, he obtained his habilitation at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, specializing in structured reactors and heterogeneous catalysis. Van Veen became a private lecturer at Technische Universität München and was appointed as a professor of engineering at the University of Warwick in the UK in late 2012. His research interests include multifunctional chemical reactors, intensification of catalytic processes, advanced studies on catalyzed reaction mechanisms, activation of saturated hydrocarbons, and catalytic chemistry related to light olefins and oxygenates.

Research Interests