Javier Pérez-Ramírez


Javier Pérez-Ramírez is a Professor of Catalysis and Chemical Engineering at ETH Zurich.

Career

Javier Pérez-Ramírez studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Alicante, and later obtained his PhD cum laude at TU Delft. He worked for Norsk Hydro and Yara International and returned to academia as an ICREA research professor at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, related to the Rovira i Virgili University. Since 2010, he is Full Professor of Catalysis Engineering at the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering at the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. In 2018 he became visiting professor and director of the at the .
He is associate editor of Catalysis Science & Technology, and sits on the editorial board of Advanced Functional Materials, , ACS Catalysis, Energy Technology, and Catalysis Communications.
Since 2018, Pérez-Ramírez is president of the of the Swiss Chemical Society. He is Swiss representative of the .

Research

Pérez-Ramírez's central research focuses on the fundamental design and technical development of new heterogeneous catalysts and reactor engineering concepts, favoring the more efficient and sustainable manufacturing within the chemical industry. He has developed novel catalysts for the gas-phase oxidation of hydrogen chloride and has done major and groundbreaking contributions in the rational design of hierarchical zeolites.

Awards

Pérez-Ramírez's work of nearly 400 articles and 17 patents has been recognized by several major prizes, including the Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis, Xingda Lecturship of Peking University, Sustainable Energy Award, the Beilby Medal and Prize, the EFCATS Young Researcher Award, the DECHEMA Otto Roelen Medal, the Andrew Main lectureship, the UOP-Honeywell Invitational Lectureship, and the KNCV Prijs voor Katalyse.
In 2013, he has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.