“We are glad to announce that G.T. Kasun Kalhara Gunasooriya and Pedro Mendes from LCT have been selected to be the Belgian delegation (total 2 candidates per country) for the upcoming European Federation of Catalysis Societies (EFCATS) Young Generation Catalysis Challenge. This challenge provides a unique opportunity to strengthen the interactions and to more fully integrate the younger generation into the European catalysis community. This challenge will be held at Wageningen University and Research (WUR), The Netherlands from 9–11 July 2018.”

Columbus, Ohio (May 16, 2018) – CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, announced today the participants selected for the 2018 CAS SciFinder Future Leaders program. César A. Urbina-Blanco from Ghent University has been selected as one of several international Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers who garnered an all-expense paid visit to CAS headquarters in Columbus, OH this August to collaborate on exciting new initiatives that support the scientific community.

Biogas, generally produced by anaerobic digestion of organic (waste) material, is a renewable low-carbon source of methane. A techno-economic analysis, performed jointly by two research teams at Ghent University, the Laboratory for Chemical Technology (Lukas Buelens, Vladimir V. Galvita, Guy B. Marin, Kevin M. Van Geem) and the Center for Microbial Ecology & Technology (Kristof Verbeeck, Korneel Rabaey), shows that the production of hydrogen, heat or electricity from biomethane would require either financial support or a strong increase in product revenues.