Nobel Laureate addresses CCI Conference

Left to right: Isaac Daniels, CCI; Tetiana Kulik, Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv; Professor Duncan Wass, Director, Cardiff Catalysis Institute; Professor Ben Feringa; Naomi Lawes, CCI - Nobel Prize-winning professor Ben Feringa joined a host of luminaries for Cardiff Catalysis Institute 's (CCI) annual conference. The Netherlands synthetic organic chemist, who specializes in molecular nanotechnology and homogeneous catalysis, gave a keynote speech on Exploring Catalytic Space at the two-day event. Professor Feringa, awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with J F Stoddart and J-P Sauvage, said: "I was delighted to attend the CCI Conference and was really struck by the quality of early career research on show, the breadth and depth of CCI's work across the field of catalysis, and the fantastic new TRH facilities in which CCI can grow its ambitious collaborations with industry and wider society in search of Net Zero goals." The conference, attended by 120 delegates, also heard from Tetiana Kulik - a Ukrainian professor who is currently working in CCI as part of the British Academy's Researchers at Risk programme, and joined CCI from the Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv. The CCI conference is the first to be held in the Translational Research Hub (TRH) - the Institute's new home on Cardiff Innovation Campus. TRH is a new bespoke facility, offering laboratories, meeting, and office spaces to foster industry-academic partnerships that drive innovation and the University's Net Zero goals for the sciences of catalysis and compound semiconductors.