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


upcoming seminars:

Christoph Zechner

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


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Prof. Dr. Hugo Sax
University Hosptital Zurich

Wednesday, 11/12/2024, 4 pm
ETH Hönggerberg, lecture hall tba


Kim Ragaert

Download From mechanical to chemical recycling of plastics - how does a complimentary system work? (PDF, 424 KB)

Prof. Dr. Kim Ragaert
Department Circular Chemical Engineering (CCE),
Maastricht University

Wednesday, 26/02/2025, 4 pm
ETH Hönggerberg, lecture hall tba


past seminars:

Prof. Schweidtmann

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

Schweidtmann and Jorner

Dr. Brandenburg

ICB recommended seminar:

Download Digital Chemistry at Merck: The power of Data and AI to tackle industry challenges (PDF, 1.1 MB)

Dr. Jan Gerit Brandenburg
Director for Digital Chemistry, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt
08/10/2024


grossmann

Download Optimal Synthesis and Planning of Sustainable Chemical Process and Energy Systems (PDF, 2.3 MB)

Prof. Dr. Ignacio E. Grossmann
Rudolph and Florence Dean Professor of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
02/10/2024

Proff. Grossmann and Guillén Gosálbez
post seminar line up


Seminar series 2023/2024

Chairman: Prof. Dr. Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez


Prof. Abolhasani

ICB recommended Seminar
Host: The deMello Group / Prof. Dr. Andrew deMello

Download Accelerated Materials and Molecular Discovery and Optimization with Autonomous Fluidic Labs (PDF, 227 KB)

Prof. Dr. Milad Abolhasani
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
North Carolina State University

Friday, 04/06/2024


Prof. Shang

ICB recommended Seminar
Host: ICB/Nanomaterials Engineering Research Group/
Prof. Dr. Chih-Jen Shih

Download Iron-Catalyzed New Transformations and their Applications for Functional Electronic Materials (PDF, 120 KB)

Prof. Dr. Rui Shang
Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo

Friday, 3/05/2024


Prof. Kumacheva

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

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Seminar series 2021/2022

Chairman: Prof. Dr. Paolo Arosio


Kumar Agrawal

Download Chemistry & engineering of two-dimensional materials for energy-efficient molecular separation (PDF, 590 KB)

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

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Seminar series 2020/2021

Chairman: Prof. Dr. Paolo Arosio

Christos Maravelias

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

Maria Escudero Escribano

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

Christine Keating

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

Daniel T. Chiu

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

Ying Diao

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

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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.

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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 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)

 

5 February 2020, 3 pm and 4 pm
HCI J 3

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Smart Process Analytics and Machine Learning

Richard Braatz

Prof. Dr. Richard D. Braatz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Global optimization with hybrid models embedded

Alexander Mitsos

Prof. Dr. Alexander Mitsos, RWTH Aachen

6 February 2020, 10 am, 11 am, 2pm and 3 pm
HCI J 3

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Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Engineering: Past, Present, and Future

Venkat

Prof. Dr. Venkat Venkatasubramanian, Columbia University New York

Intersections of AI/ML and Chemistry in Catalyst Design and Discovery

Zachary Ulissi

Prof. Dr. Zachary Ulissi, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

Learning the language of organic chemistry: developing artificial intelligence models using existing knowledge

Teodoro Laino

Dr. Teodoro Laino, IBM Research, Zurich

Presentations: AI at ICB

Prof. Dr. Gonzalo Guillén Gozálbez
DataHow AG

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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

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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

image Folch

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

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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

 

Enlarged view: Wagemann

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

Enlarged view: Tibbitt

Download Macromolecular engineering of hydrogel biomaterials (PDF, 2.1 MB)

Prof. Dr. Mark Tibbitt
Macromolecular Engineering Lab, ETH Zürich, MAVT
08/11/2017

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Seminar series lineup 2016/2017

Chairman 2016/17: Prof. Dr. Andrew deMello

 

Enlarged view: Robert Grass

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

Enlarged view: Arvind Varma

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

Enlarged view: Salatino line-up

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

Enlarged view: Bercovici

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

jiri cejka

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

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Seminar series lineup 2015/2016

Chairman 2015/16: Prof. Dr. Rudiyanto Gunawan

 

Enlarged view: Prof. Ces

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

line up Maffettone

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

Enlarged view: Jensen_lineup

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

Flyer Prof. Stirolo

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

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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

Enlarged view: Flyer Prof. Skogestad

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

Enlarged view: Schlögl line-up

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

Metiu line-up

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

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