ICB Seminar Series
Welcome note from the chairman
Dear all,
the series of seminars was founded to cover the umbrella of diverse research activities encompassed by ICB, including catalysis, functional materials, polymer engineering, separations, microfluidics, process design, and systems engineering. This series aims at complementing existing seminar programs offered by other institutes of DCHAB. Each year, around 7 distinguished scientists and technologists will be invited to speak on topics of current interest in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. Everybody is warmly invited to attend.
Don’t miss the opportunity to listen to our top speakers.
Welcome to the ICB seminars!
On behalf of all ICB Professors,
Prof. Dr. Kjell Jorner, Chairman
Seminar series 2024/2025
Chairman: Prof. Dr. Kjell Jorner
Download Stochastic processes in cells and tissues (PDF, 92 KB)
Dr. Christoph Zechner
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics &
Center for Systems Biology Dresden
Wednesday, 27/11/2024, 4 pm
ETH Hönggerberg, HCI J 7
Seminar titel tba
Prof. Dr. Hugo Sax
University Hosptital Zurich
Wednesday, 11/12/2024, 4 pm
ETH Hönggerberg, lecture hall tba
Prof. Dr. Kim Ragaert
Department Circular Chemical Engineering (CCE),
Maastricht University
Wednesday, 26/02/2025, 4 pm
ETH Hönggerberg, lecture hall tba
Download Generative Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Process Engineering (PDF, 111 KB)
Prof. Dr. Artur M. Schweidtmann
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Technology Delft
16/10/2024
ICB recommended seminar:
Dr. Jan Gerit Brandenburg
Director for Digital Chemistry, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt
08/10/2024
Prof. Dr. Ignacio E. Grossmann
Rudolph and Florence Dean Professor of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
02/10/2024
Seminar series 2023/2024
Chairman: Prof. Dr. Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez
ICB recommended Seminar
Host: The deMello Group / Prof. Dr. Andrew deMello
Prof. Dr. Milad Abolhasani
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
North Carolina State University
Friday, 04/06/2024
ICB recommended Seminar
Host: ICB/Nanomaterials Engineering Research Group/
Prof. Dr. Chih-Jen Shih
Prof. Dr. Rui Shang
Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo
Friday, 3/05/2024
Download Self-driving labs in nanochemistry and medicine (PDF, 132 KB)
Prof. Dr. Eugenia Kumacheva
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Wednesday, 31/01/2024, 11 am
Download Design and evolution of new metabolism for C1 assimilation (PDF, 2.3 MB)
Prof. Dr. James C. Liao
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Wednesday, 20/09/2023
Seminar series 2021/2022
Chairman: Prof. Dr. Paolo Arosio
Prof. Dr. Kumar Varoon Agrawal
Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Wednesday, 15/12/2021, on zoom
Zoom ID: 955 3584 8356/PW:932715
external page https://ethz.zoom.us/j/95535848356?pwd=NElaWjREcjNWaktBYmlDeUgrdzBzUT09
Seminar Series 2021/22: past seminars
Mini-Symposium on Digital Chemistry
Chairman: Prof. Dr. Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez
4 and 17 November 2021, on Zoom
Sustainable digital chemistry through network science
Jana Marie Weber, University of Cambridge
Why machine learning can find a new catalyst but not a needle in a haystack
Kevin M. Jablonka, EPFL
The digital chemistry revolution
Dr. Kjell Jorner, University of Toronto
Multi-scale Discovery of Energy Materials in the Era of Data-Driven Science
Dr. Seyed Mohamad Moosavi, FU Berlin
Beyond chemical intuition: Combining biocatalysis, high-throughput experimentation and machine learning
Dr. Abigail Mountford, University of Cambridge
First-principles catalyst design with high-throughput simulations
Daniel Schwalbe-Koda, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar series 2020/2021
Chairman: Prof. Dr. Paolo Arosio
Download Process Synthesis in the Era of Renewable Energy: Novel Approaches for New Problems (PDF, 83 KB)
Prof. Dr. Christos T. Maravelias
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment,
Princeton University
21/04/2021
Download Tailored interfaces for electrochemical energy conversion and green synthesis (PDF, 102 KB)
Prof. Dr. Maria Escudero Escribano
Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen
03/02/2021
Download RNA compartmentalization by liquid-liquid phase coexistence in polyelectrolyte solutions (PDF, 2 MB)
Prof. Dr. Christine D. Keating
Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Penn State University
13/01/2021
Download New Technologies for High-Sensitivity and High-Multiplex Single-Cell Studies (PDF, 83 KB)
Prof. Dr. Daniel T. Chiu
A. Bruce Montgomery Professor of Chemistry, Endowed Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Washington Research Foundation Professor, and Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle
09/12/2020
Download Synergizing High Capacitance with Fast Charging: Pseudocapacitance in 2D Materials (PDF, 907 KB)
Prof. Dr. Maria Lukatskaya
Electrochemical Energy Systems Laboratory, MAVT, ETH Zürich
18/11/2020
Download Assembly of Molecular Electronics: The Journey is More Important Than the Destination (PDF, 224 KB)
Prof. Dr. Ying Diao
Dow Chemical Company Faculty Scholar
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
28/10/2020
Seminar series 2019/2020
Chairman: Prof. Dr. Paolo Arosio
Please understand that due to the coronavirus pandemic, there will be no ICB seminars taking place in the spring semester 2020. The next seminars are scheduled from September 2020.
Seminar Series line up 2019/2020
Download Volcanos, cliffs and ways around: strategies to break linear scaling relationships in Catalysis (PDF, 377 KB)
Prof. Dr. Núria López
Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Tarragona
18/12/2019
Download Artificial intelligence approaches towards hybridizing analytical & data-driven decision-making (PDF, 102 KB)
Dr. Ruth Misener
Imperial College London
20/11/2019
Download Studying cell signaling in complex environments with open microfluidics (PDF, 1 MB)
Prof. Dr. Ashleigh Theberge
University of Washington, Department of Chemistry
01/11/2019
Download Image recovery and resto-ration with neural net-works and robust storage of information on DNA (PDF, 368 KB)
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Heckel
Rudolf Moessbauer assistant professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Munich
and an adjunct assistant professor at Rice University
30/10/2019
Symposium on
Artificial Intelligence in Chemical and Bioengineering
5 - 6 February 2020
The aim of this symposium is to provide an introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in chemical and process engineering. In the same way it is revolutionizing several areas of science and technology, artificial intelligence has huge potential to impact also core activities of chemical engineers such as modeling, material design, reaction engineering, process control and intensification. This series of seminars, delivered by world-class leaders in the field, will provide a comprehensive overview of this very exciting and rapidly evolving area, from a historical perspective to the most recent developments, from fundamental scientific questions to examples of concrete applications. The seminars will also provide a critical overview on challenges and opportunities in building hybrid mechanistic/data driven models.
Download symposium programme (PDF, 3.7 MB)
6 February 2020, 10 am, 11 am, 2pm and 3 pm
HCI J 3
Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Engineering: Past, Present, and Future
Prof. Dr. Venkat Venkatasubramanian, Columbia University New York
Intersections of AI/ML and Chemistry in Catalyst Design and Discovery
Prof. Dr. Zachary Ulissi, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Learning the language of organic chemistry: developing artificial intelligence models using existing knowledge
Dr. Teodoro Laino, IBM Research, Zurich
Presentations: AI at ICB
Prof. Dr. Gonzalo Guillén Gozálbez
DataHow AG
Seminar series 2018/2019
Download Holistic molecular imaging and rapid phenotyping of complex biological systems (PDF, 4.2 MB)
Prof. Dr. Kwanghun Chung
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
22/05/2019
Download Genetic Media (PDF, 133 KB)
Prof. Dr. Yaniv Erlich
Chief Science Officer of MyHeritage.com and Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computational Biology at Columbia University
17/04/2019
Download (Industrial) Catalysis for the Energy Supply: small molecules – large opportunities (PDF, 243 KB)
Dr. Carl Mesters
Chief Scientist Catalysis & Chemistry, Royal Dutch Shell-Projects and Technology, Shell Technology Center Houston
27/03/2019
Download Integrating process and molecular design: a journey across scales (PDF, 112 KB)
Prof. Dr. Claire S. Adjiman Freng
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Imperial College London
06/03/2019
Download building a synthetic cell (PDF, 210 KB)
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm T. S. Huck
Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
23/01/2019
Download Atomic layered Au clusters on α-MoC as catalyst for water gas shift reaction (PDF, 137 KB)
Prof. Dr. Ding Ma
College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and College of Engineering, BIC-ESAT
Peking University, China
10/12/2018
Download Advances in Mechanistic Understanding and Modeling of Protein Process Chromatography (PDF, 268 KB)
Prof. Dr. Giorgio Carta
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia
05/09/2018
Seminar series line up 2017/2018
Chairman 2017/18: Prof. Dr. Andrew deMello
Download Imaging and sequencing single cells (PDF, 2.9 MB)
Prof. Dr. Aaron M. Streets
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley
19/07/2018
Download Digital Manufacturing of Microfluidic Devices (PDF, 276 KB)
Prof. Dr. Albert Folch
Department of Bioengineering,
University of Washington, Seattle
04/05/2018
Systems Engineering for Sustainability
Chemical Systems Engineering for Sustainability, Manufacturing and Data
Prof. Dr. Fengqi You, Cornell University
Systems engineering approaches for sustainable biomanufacturing
Dr. Cleo Kontoravdi, Imperial College London
Solving sustainability problems using Process Systems Engineering
Dr. Gonzalo Guillén Gosálbez, Imperial College London
Future Low Emissions Energy and Chemical Process Systems
Prof. Dr. Ali Abbas, The University of Sydney
"ICB seminar series" colloquium 2018
Wednesday, 18 April, 2018, 09.00 - 12.30
Download Nanofluidic tools for single DNA molecule analysis (PDF, 123 KB)
Prof. Dr. Fredrik Westerlund
Department of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg
21/03/2018
Download Power-to-X-Technologies and sector coupling (PDF, 949 KB)
Prof. Kurt Wagemann
DECHEMA, Gesellschaft für Chemische Technik und
Biotechnologie e.V.
(Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology)
31/01/2018
Download Macromolecular engineering of hydrogel biomaterials (PDF, 2.1 MB)
Prof. Dr. Mark Tibbitt
Macromolecular Engineering Lab, ETH Zürich, MAVT
08/11/2017
Seminar series lineup 2016/2017
Chairman 2016/17: Prof. Dr. Andrew deMello
Download Chemical engineering of information (PDF, 320 KB)
Prof. Dr. Robert Grass
Titularprofessor ETH Zürich, Functional Materials Lab
Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering
31/05/2017
Download Selected topics related to energy and chemicals (PDF, 538 KB)
Prof. Dr. Arvind Varma
R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor
School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
ICB guest professor 2017
26/04/2017
Download Mixing and segregation in fluidized bed converters (PDF, 214 KB)
Prof. Dr. Piero Salatino
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
01/03/2017
Download Microscale electrokinetics - from enhanced biochemical analysis to configurable microstructures (PDF, 219 KB)
Prof. Dr. Moran Bercovici
Microfluidic Technologies Laboratory, Technion, Israel
30/11/2016
Download Manipulation with zeolitic layers towards new porous materials (PDF, 236 KB)
Prof. Dr. Jiří Čejka
J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry,
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
02/11/2016
Seminar series lineup 2015/2016
Chairman 2015/16: Prof. Dr. Rudiyanto Gunawan
Download Microfluidic technologies for the bottom-up construction of artificial cells (PDF, 160 KB)
Prof. Dr. Oscar Ces
Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London
04/05/2016
Download Rheo-engineered modular microfluidics (PDF, 188 KB)
Prof. Dr. Pier Luca Maffettone
Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II
06/04/2016
Download Advantages of going small: chemistry, nanotechnology, and biology applications (PDF, 477 KB)
Prof. Dr. Klavs F. Jensen
Warren K Lewis Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
Visiting Professor at ICB
30/03/2016
Download The role of interfacial water on water desalination, hydrates management, and oil&gas production (PDF, 110 KB)
Prof. Dr. Alberto Stirolo
Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London
02/03/2016
Download Bioactive materials and biofabrication for tissue engineering: progress and challenges (PDF, 638 KB)
Prof. Dr. Aldo Boccaccini
Institute of Biomaterials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
10/02/2016
Download Devising control structures for complete chemical plants - from art to science (PDF, 197 KB)
Prof. Dr. Sigurd Skogestad
Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim
02/12/2015
Download Microfluidics with sub-nanoliter volumes in the "open space": from patterning to pathology (PDF, 692 KB)
Dr. Govind Kaigala
IBM Research, Zurich
18/11/2015
Download Catalysis - a fundamental perspective (PDF, 56 KB)
Prof. Dr. Robert Schlögl
Department für anorganische Chemie, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin
07/10/2015
Download Halogen-mediated propane conversion to propylene (PDF, 1.2 MB)
Prof. Dr. Horia Metiu
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California
09/09/2015