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Hosted event: The 2nd Green Chemistry and Engineering Symposium

The 2nd Green Chemistry and Engineering Symposium organized by Aarhus University and Merck KGaA will take place on 26-27th October. Topics include Green Technologies - from organic electronics to smart lubricants, Green Chemistry & Engineering - from teaching to planetary solutions and impact on entrepreneurship, Green Chemistry Synthesis, and CO2.

Info about event

Time

Thursday 26 October 2023, at 11:30 - Friday 27 October 2023, at 13:20

Location

AIAS Auditorium (1632-201) and online

Programme

Thursday 26 October

11.30 - 12.15  Lunch

12.15 - 12.30  Introduction by Brian Vinter, Green Chemistry & Engineering at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, Aarhus University

Session: Green technologies - from organic electronics to smart lubricants

12.30 - 13.10  Shweta Agarwala, AU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Electronics and Photonics, iNANO

13.10 - 13.50  Morten Madsen, SDU, Sønderborg, DK

13.50 - 14.30  "The design and synthesis of emissive carbon dots toward sustainable light-emitting applications" by Jia Wang, Department of Physics, Umeå University 

14.30 - 15.10  Adalina, Merck 

15.10 - 15.30  Sergei Glavatskih, KTH - SYSTEM- O KOMPONENTDESIGN

15.30 - 16.00 Break

Session: Green Chemistry & Engineering - from teaching to planetary solutions and impact on entrepreneurship

16.00 - 16.20  Amy Cannon, Beyond Benign 

16.20 - 16.50  Julie Zimmerman, Yale Vice Provost for Planetary Solutions, Professor of Green Engineering, Assistant Director for Research at Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering

16.50 - 17.10  John Warner 

 

Friday 27 October

Session: Green Chemistry Synthesis

9.30 - 10.10  Lars Ottosen, Head of Department, Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering

10.10 - 10.50  Tomislav Friscic, Leverhulme International Professor in Green and Sustainable Chemistry School of Chemistry University of Birmingham

10.50 - 11.10  Kei Seito, Professor at Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability (GSAIS), Kyoto University

11.10 - 11.30  Merck presentation by Mikael Friberg

11.30 - 11.40  Break 

Session: CO2 

11.40 - 12.20  Adam Slabon, Chair Inorganic Chemistry, Universitaet Wuppertal, Germany

12.20 - 12.40  Zhimin Liu, Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences

12.40 - 13.20  CORC


Registration

Everyone interested is welcome to join but registration is required.

Link to registration: 2nd Aarhus University and Merck Green Chemistry & Engineering Symposium (au.dk)


Contact 

Prof. Anja Verena Mudring, Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering

anja-verena.mudring@bce.au.dk