Jorge Gascon

Professor Jorge Gascon

Jorge Gascon (born December 1, 1977) is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, director of the KAUST Catalysis Center.[1] and a group leader of Advanced Catalytic Materials group[2]

Biography

He received his MSc. in Industrial chemistry in 2002 and his PhD cum laude in Chemical Engineering in 2006, both at the University of Zaragoza. The topic of his PhD thesis: Two zone fluidized bed reactors for hydrocarbon valorization.

Then he moved to Netherlands, where he was a post-doc (2006-2009), Assistant Professor (2010-2012), Associate Professor (2012-2014) and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor (2014-2017) of Catalysis Engineering at Delft University of Technology.

In 2017 he moved to Saudi Arabia, where he is working as a Professor and Director of Catalysis Center at KAUST.

His research interests fall at the interphase of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, including the development and demonstration of new nano-structured materials and composites tackling the problems of global warming and renewable energy resources. He is particularly interested in application of porous materials, such as Metal Organic Frameworks, Covalent Organic Frameworks and zeolites. Applications comprise membrane and adsorbent development, multifunctional catalysis, Fischer Tropsch Synthesis, methanol to olefins, photo- and electro-catalysis.

He is also a member of editorial board of Chemical Engineering Journal[3] and editorial advisory board of ACS Catalysis Journal.[4]

Awards and honors

Gascon is a member of the board of the International Zeolite Association Commission on Metal–organic framework. He has been the recipient of the prestigious VENI (2010), VIDI (2013) and ERC Starting (2013) personal grants and of the 2013 ExxonMobil Chemical European Science and Engineering Award.

He has co-authored more than 300 publications in peer-reviewed journals,[5] several book chapters, patents and has edited the book ‘Metal Organic Frameworks as Heterogeneous Catalysts'.[6][7]

Gascon has been recognized as a highly cited researcher by Web of Science[8] having the current h-index of 86.

He is in the list of Highly cited researchers 2019, 2020, 2021. Demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.[9]

Professor Gascon was named Doctor Honoris Causa by La Universidad de Alicante in 2021.[10]

Most influential publications

  1. Metal–organic framework nanosheets in polymer composite materials for gas separation[11]
  2. An Amine-Functionalized MIL-53 Metal−Organic Framework with Large Separation Power for CO2 and CH4[12]
  3. Solution processable metal–organic frameworks for mixed matrix membranes using porous liquids[13]
  4. Structure–performance descriptors and the role of Lewis acidity in the methanol-to-propylene process[14]
  5. Evidence for a chemical clock in oscillatory formation of UiO-66[15]
  6. Metal organic framework-mediated synthesis of highly active and stable Fischer-Tropsch catalysts[16]

References

  1. ^ "KAUST Catalysis Center - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology". kcc.kaust.edu.sa. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  2. ^ "Home". Advanced Catalytic Materials. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  3. ^ "Jorge Gascon". www.journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  4. ^ "ACS Catalysis". pubs.acs.org. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  5. ^ Gascón, Jorge publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. ^ (Professor), Jorge Gascon (2013-07-08). Metal Organic Frameworks as Heterogeneous Catalysts. ISBN 978-1-84973-572-8.
  7. ^ "Jorge Gascon". scholar.google.es. Retrieved 2021-05-02.
  8. ^ "Jorge Gascon's Publons profile". publons.com.
  9. ^ "Highly Cited Researchers". publons.com. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  10. ^ Hernández, J. (2021-09-29). "La Universidad de Alicante nombra doctor honoris causa al profesor Jorge Gascón Sabaté". Información (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  11. ^ Rodenas, Tania; Luz, Ignacio; Prieto, Gonzalo; Seoane, Beatriz; Miro, Hozanna; Corma, Avelino; Kapteijn, Freek; Llabrés i Xamena, Francesc X.; Gascon, Jorge (January 2015). "Metal–organic framework nanosheets in polymer composite materials for gas separation". Nature Materials. 14 (1): 48–55. Bibcode:2015NatMa..14...48R. doi:10.1038/nmat4113. hdl:10251/105345. PMC 4270742. PMID 25362353.
  12. ^ Couck, Sarah; Denayer, Joeri F. M.; Baron, Gino V.; Rémy, Tom; Gascon, Jorge; Kapteijn, Freek (13 May 2009). "An Amine-Functionalized MIL-53 Metal−Organic Framework with Large Separation Power for CO 2 and CH 4". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131 (18): 6326–6327. doi:10.1021/ja900555r. PMID 19374416.
  13. ^ Knebel, Alexander; Bavykina, Anastasiya; Datta, Shuvo Jit; Sundermann, Lion; Garzon-Tovar, Luis; Lebedev, Yury; Durini, Sara; Ahmad, Rafia; Kozlov, Sergey M.; Shterk, Genrikh; Karunakaran, Madhavan; Carja, Ionela Daniela; Simic, Dino; Weilert, Irina; Klüppel, Manfred; Giese, Ulrich; Cavallo, Luigi; Rueping, Magnus; Eddaoudi, Mohamed; Caro, Jürgen; Gascon, Jorge (December 2020). "Solution processable metal–organic frameworks for mixed matrix membranes using porous liquids". Nature Materials. 19 (12): 1346–1353. Bibcode:2020NatMa..19.1346K. doi:10.1038/s41563-020-0764-y. hdl:10754/664580. PMID 32778813. S2CID 221100639.
  14. ^ Yarulina, Irina; De Wispelaere, Kristof; Bailleul, Simon; Goetze, Joris; Radersma, Mike; Abou-Hamad, Edy; Vollmer, Ina; Goesten, Maarten; Mezari, Brahim; Hensen, Emiel J. M.; Martínez-Espín, Juan S.; Morten, Magnus; Mitchell, Sharon; Perez-Ramirez, Javier; Olsbye, Unni; Weckhuysen, Bert M.; Van Speybroeck, Veronique; Kapteijn, Freek; Gascon, Jorge (August 2018). "Structure–performance descriptors and the role of Lewis acidity in the methanol-to-propylene process". Nature Chemistry. 10 (8): 804–812. Bibcode:2018NatCh..10..804Y. doi:10.1038/s41557-018-0081-0. hdl:1854/LU-8574193. PMID 29941905. S2CID 205563036.
  15. ^ Goesten, M. G.; de Lange, M. F.; Olivos-Suarez, A. I.; Bavykina, A. V.; Serra-Crespo, P.; Krywka, C.; Bickelhaupt, F. M.; Kapteijn, F.; Gascon, Jorge (September 2016). "Evidence for a chemical clock in oscillatory formation of UiO-66". Nature Communications. 7 (1): 11832. Bibcode:2016NatCo...711832G. doi:10.1038/ncomms11832. PMC 4906383. PMID 27282410.
  16. ^ Santos, Vera P.; Wezendonk, Tim A.; Jaén, Juan José Delgado; Dugulan, A. Iulian; Nasalevich, Maxim A.; Islam, Husn-Ubayda; Chojecki, Adam; Sartipi, Sina; Sun, Xiaohui; Hakeem, Abrar A.; Koeken, Ard C. J.; Ruitenbeek, Matthijs; Davidian, Thomas; Meima, Garry R.; Sankar, Gopinathan; Kapteijn, Freek; Makkee, Michiel; Gascon, Jorge (5 March 2015). "Metal organic framework-mediated synthesis of highly active and stable Fischer-Tropsch catalysts". Nature Communications. 6 (1): 6451. Bibcode:2015NatCo...6.6451S. doi:10.1038/ncomms7451. PMID 25740709.