Regina Palkovits

Regina Palkovits
Palkovits lectures at the CatchBio Symposium in 2014
Born	1980 (age 43–44)
Alma mater	Technical University Dortmund Max Planck Institute for Coal Research
Scientific career
Institutions	Max Planck Institute for Coal Research RWTH Aachen University
Thesis	Anwendungen von geordnetem mesoporösem Siliciumdioxid in der heterogenen Katalyse (2007)

Regina Palkovits (born 1980) is a German chemist who is a Professor of Chemistry at the RWTH Aachen University. Her research considers heterogenous catalysis. She was elected a Fellow of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts in 2020.

Early life and education[edit]

Palkovits studied chemical engineering at the Technical University of Dortmund.^[1] She spent a year at Lehigh University as a visiting student working in chemical engineering. She joined the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research for her doctoral research, where she studied the use of mesoporous silica in heterogeneous catalysis.^[2] She joined Utrecht University as a postdoctoral scholar working in the group of Bert Weckhuysen.^{[citation needed]}

Research and career[edit]

In 2008, Palkovits returned to the Max Planck Institute as a group leader. She spent two years in Mülheim before joining RWTH Aachen University as a Professor of Chemistry.^[3][4] Palkovits has continued to investigate heterogeneous catalysis, looking at how to transform renewable resources into high value products. Palkovits has investigated how biomass, carbon dioxide and plastic waste can be converted into monomers for polymer synthesis and the production of carbon dioxide neutral fuels.^{[citation needed]}

Academic service[edit]

Palkovits leads the Sustainable Chemistry Division of the German Chemical Society.^[5] She was a founding member of AcademiaNet, a network established to address the underrepresentation of women in senior positions in science.^[6] In 2011, Palkovits' commitment to increasing diversity in science was recognised when she was selected as one of Germany's 100 Women of Tomorrow.^[7]

Awards and honours[edit]

• 2006 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Hendrik Casimir – Karl Ziegler Research Award^[8]
• 2010 North Rhine-Westphalia Innovation Prize^{[citation needed]}
• 2010 GKSS-Prize Science for the Public^{[citation needed]}
• 2010 Jochen Block-Preis^[9][10]
• 2014 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering^[11]
• 2017 DECHEMA Award^[12]
• 2019 European Federation of Catalysis Societies Young Researcher award^[13]
• 2019 Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion Max Planck Fellow^[14]
• 2020 Elected Fellow of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts^[15]

Selected publications[edit]

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• Agnieszka M Ruppert; Kamil Weinberg; Regina Palkovits (28 February 2012). "Hydrogenolysis goes bio: from carbohydrates and sugar alcohols to platform chemicals". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51 (11): 2564–2601. doi:10.1002/ANIE.201105125. ISSN 1433-7851. PMID 22374680. Wikidata Q34177931.
• Roberto Rinaldi; Regina Palkovits; Ferdi Schüth (1 January 2008). "Depolymerization of cellulose using solid catalysts in ionic liquids". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 47 (42): 8047–8050. doi:10.1002/ANIE.200802879. ISSN 1433-7851. PMID 18814164. Wikidata Q82054100.
• Regina Palkovits; Markus Antonietti; Pierre Kuhn; Arne Thomas; Ferdi Schüth (1 January 2009). "Solid catalysts for the selective low-temperature oxidation of methane to methanol". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 48 (37): 6909–6912. doi:10.1002/ANIE.200902009. ISSN 1433-7851. PMID 19655358. Wikidata Q84349991.

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External links[edit]

• Regina Palkovits publications indexed by Google Scholar