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6th Catalytic Seminar

This year the 6th Catalytic seminar for PhD students was organized by UCT Prague on the 26th of January. The seminar is a great opportunity for PhD students to present their work and discuss current results with our catalytic society. The series of interesting talks started with a welcome note from our group leader David. Valeriia our final-year PhD student presented her interesting results on the hydrogenation of aldol condensation products over nickel catalysts. Her work was an extension of her research efforts on valorizing biomass-derived furanics, where she has been successful in furfural-acetone aldol condensation using hydrotalcite-based catalysts. Our second-year doctoral student Snehasis presented his evaluation of the reaction pathway of deoxygenation of anisole, in which he discussed the significance of process conditions in understanding the product distribution of hydrodeoxygenation reactions. The seminar also included talks from industrial specialists Olga Gonsiorová from Eurosupport s.r.o., and Michal Dudák from Anamet s.r.o. The sessions and seminar lunch allowed the team to meet and interact with researchers from other universities in the Czech Republic.