Back to school Robin Geitenbeek 20 February 2018 Archive De afgelopen tijd ben ik druk geweest met het afronden van wat onderzoeken. Er liggen nu twee manuscripten op het bureau van mijn professor en dus heb ik mooi weer even wat adempauze... onder andere om te beginnen met nadenken over de vraag: wat wil ik ‘later ...
“Without fossil fuels, we wouldn’t be where we are today” Jeroen Vollenbroek 16 February 2018 Archive Interview with Prof. Ib Chorkendorff By Jeroen van Vollenbroek Who is your source of inspiration or role model? I don’t really have one. There are many people that I admire, Faraday for instance. Faraday’s law was very difficult at that time. Maxwell mad...
Fuelling the Future MCEC Office 14 December 2017 Archive MCEC's first outreach symposium, on catalysis and sustainability, was held last 14 December in the Academy Hall in Utrecht. 'Fuelling the Future' was aimed at a broad audience and open to anyone who was interested. Throughout the day, around one hundred gues...
“It’s unavoidable that this situation will change in the next ten years” Jeroen Vollenbroek 14 December 2017 Archive Interview with Prof. Karsten Reuter By Jeroen Vollenbroek Why or when did you decide to work in theoretical chemistry? My uncle is a professor in theoretical physics, and as a kid, I always wanted to be like him. I was quite ignorant then, as probably mo...
Het ‘te volle agenda’-dilemma Anne-Eva Nieuwelink 31 October 2017 Archive Hebben jullie een leuke zomer gehad? Met wilde verhalen teruggekomen van vakantie, of net als ik vooral doorgewerkt? Ik had dit jaar bewust gekozen voor een vroege vakantie: buiten het hoogseizoen is het heerlijk rustig en precies warm genoeg in Portugal. Een...
From UT to Utah (part four) Álvaro Moreno 27 October 2017 Archive For the last time: hi everybody! This is my final blog in my Utah series. Amazing how time flies, I almost cannot believe it’s been four months since I arrived in Salt Lake City. In a week I will be leaving this city that has been my first home in the USA. ...
Developing new algorithms: Ivo Filot at Penn State University, Part 4 Ivo Filot 14 August 2017 Archive In the summer of 2016, Ivo Filot went to Penn State University (USA) to stay for two months in Adri van Duin’s research group. The goal of his stay was to develop a new algorithm for fitting ReaxFF potentials. In this blog, kept especially for MCEC, Ivo tells ...
Spectroscopie & de ratel Anne-Eva Nieuwelink 1 August 2017 Archive Zoals beloofd: spectroscopie. Zitten jullie er klaar voor? Nou, kom maar op! Spectroscopie is een verzamelnaam voor technieken die straling gebruiken om gassen, vloeistoffen of vaste stoffen te analyseren op basis van hun spectrum. Straling heb je in al...
From UT to Utah (part two) Álvaro Moreno 14 July 2017 Archive Hi again, guys! Already two months have passed since I arrived in the States. Everything is going by so fast! Well, let’s start with the good news: I am achieving good results at work! Finally, I have mastered the technique of manufacturing my own electrode...
From UT to Utah (part three) Álvaro Moreno 12 July 2017 Archive 2 Hi again, guys! Three months have already gone by, time is flying here in the States. I think that is a very good sign! Let’s start with science. I am very happy to tell you that I finally have got results, really good results if I have to be honest. So tog...
