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University of Amsterdam

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5.05/4/2026

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About Shiju

Dr. N.R. (Shiju Raveendran) Shiju serves as Associate Professor of Catalysis Engineering at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences within the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam, where he leads the Catalysis Engineering Group. He obtained his PhD in Heterogeneous Catalysis from the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, India. His academic career centers on advancing sustainable chemical processes through the design and application of solid catalysts. Key research areas include heterogeneous catalysis, CO2 utilization, biomass conversion to chemicals such as glycerol and lactic acid derivatives, chemical recycling of plastics, nanomaterials, and energy-related catalysis. The group's efforts integrate materials science, chemical science, and reactor engineering to investigate catalyst structures using advanced techniques like XAS, XPS, aberration-corrected electron microscopy, and solid-state NMR. They conduct reactions in batch and flow reactors targeting industrial relevance, encompassing petrochemicals, lower alkanes, graphene-based coatings, chemical intermediates from polycyclic aromatics, sustainable cyclohexyl amine synthesis, green plasma chemistry, catalytic production of green methanol from CO2, and new catalysts for ammoximation.