Biography

Gadi Rothenberg is Professor of Heterogeneous Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry at the Van `t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, and teaches courses on catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, and sustainable chemistry for science, business and innovation students. He has published over 230 papers in peer-reviewed journals and discovered two catalysts, for which he received the Marie Curie Excellence Award from the European Commission and the Paul Rylander Award from the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society. Rothenberg also invented a method for monitoring pollutants in water, for which he was awarded the Bayer CropScience Innovation Award, and co-founded the companies Sorbisense A/S, Yellow Diesel BV and Plantics BV. His textbook "Catalysis - Concepts and Green Applications" (Wiley-VCH) is the most popular undergraduate textbook in catalysis, and has also been translated into Chinese and published by the Chinese Ministry of Education. He has also co-authored a textbook on ceramic membranes (Wiley-VCH) and the Handbook of Porous Materials (WorldScientific, in 4 volumes).

In addition to his research work, Rothenberg is also the co-founder of the "Write it Right" project, teaching workshops on writing scientific articles in English in workshops for researchers on all levels. Over the past twenty years, more than 3200 PhDs and postdocs have participated in these workshops. For more information see http://write-it-right-workshops.org

Rothenberg is also the co-inventor of 16 patents, among which is a biodegradable plastic resin made from 100% plant-based materials. In 2017 he was appointed Senior Visiting Scholar at Fudan University, and in 2023 he was appointed Technical Director CO2 and Circular Economy at the Shanghai Institute for Cleantech Innovation.