Education and recruitment - iCSI - industrial catalysis science and innovation
Education and recruitment
The Centre emphasizes PhD education to provide candidates with high competence in industrial catalysis to the Norwegian process industry.
The results obtained and the competence built will be important to the international competitiveness of Norwegian industry beyond that of the partners, as well as to ensuring future industrial chemistry with minimum environmental impact.
In total, 15 PhD fellows will be graduated in the Centre and 6 post-doctoral fellows will be trained.
The industry partners in the center are actively involved in the research programs, and offer a two months industry exchange program to the PhD fellows. This is a unique opportunity for the candidates to gain experience with industrial challenges and thinking.
The gender equality within the consortium is very good, reflecting a highly inclusive (gender, ethnicity, religion) working environment with all of the partners over time. Representation of both genders at the iCSI board and among the international advisors is targeted, Among the Centre management, as well as in research and education (PhD, post doc.) at least 30% will be ensured. Efforts will be taken to encourage leadership in science and innovation for female investigators.
iCSI is attractive for international researchers. Among the 90 master students, PhD candidates, postdocs and guest researchers within or affiliated with iCSI, more than 20 countries are represented.
PhD candidates
Four candidates have finalized their PhDs, two in December 2019, and two in March 2021
Bjørn Baumgarten
PhD candidate 2021 -
NTNU, Department of Chemical Engineering
PhD candidate 2021 -
UiO, Department of Chemistry
PhD candidate 2020 - 2023
NTNU, Department of Chemical Engineering
Thesis:
Catalyst Development of Ethylene Oxychlorination to Ethylene Dichloride and Vinyl Chloride
Youri van Valen
PhD candidate 2020 -
NTNU, Department of Chemical Engineering
Jithin Gopakumar
PhD candidate 2020 -
NTNU, Department of Chemical Engineering
Julie Hessevik
PhD candidate 2019 -
UiO, Department of Chemistry
Karoline Kvande
PhD candidate 2019 - 2023
UiO, Department of Chemistry
Thesis:
Compositional and Mechanistic Studies of Cu-zeolites for the Direct Activation of Lower Alkanes
Moses Mawanga
PhD candidate 2018 -
NTNU, Department of Chemical Engineering
Hongfei Ma
PhD candidate 2017 - 2021
NTNU, Department of Chemical Engineering
Thesis:
Kinetic Studies of Ethylene Oxychlorination to Ethylene Dichloride and Vinyl Chloride
Asbjørn Slagtern Fjellvåg
PhD candidate 2016 -2022
UiO, Department of Chemistry
Thesis:
Platinum Catchment by Noble Metal Alloys and structural studies of Pt- and Rh-containing perovskites
Stine Lervold
PhD candidate 2016 - 2021
NTNU, Department of Chemical Engineering
Thesis:
Investigations of the methanol to formaldehyde (MTF) reaction over silver
Samuel K. Regli
PhD candidate 2016 -
NTNU, Department of Chemical Engineering
Endre Fenes
PhD candidate 2016 - 2021
NTNU, Department of Chemical Engineering
Thesis:
Ethylene Oxychlorination on CuCl2 based Catalysts: Mechanism and Kinetics
Dimitrios Pappas
PhD candidate 2016 - 2019
UiO, Department of Chemistry
Thesis:
Direct methane to methanol conversion over Cu-exchanged zeolites:
Building structure - activity relationships
Ata ul Rauf Salman
PhD candidate 2016 - 2019
NTNU, Department of Chemical Engineering
Thesis:
Catalytic oxidation of NO to NO2 for nitric acid production
Postdocs
Tina Bergh
Postdoc 2021 - 2023
NTNU, Department of Chemical Engineering
Sebastian Prodinger
Postdoc 2020 - 2023
UiO, Department of Chemistry
Yalan Wang
Postdoc 2019 - 2022
NTNU, Department of Chemical Engineering
Oleksii Ivashenko
Postdoc 2016 - 2020
UiO, Department of Chemistry
Yanying Qi
Postdoc 2016 - 2020
NTNU, Department of Chemical Engineering
Michael Dyballa
Postdoc 2016 - 2017
UiO, Department of Chemistry
Master's students 2022/23
This year, 11 students do their master's thesis within the IKP catalysis group, including two exchange master's from Italy and Germany, respectively.