Scientific Program

Time 25 June 2025 Place
16:30-17:30 Opening Ceremony 4 Eylül Kültür Merkezi
18:00-19:30 Opening cocktail 4 Eylül Kültür Merkezi
Time 26 June 2025  
08:00-08:30 Registration  
  Heterogeneous Catalysis (Chair: Prof. Dr. Deniz Üner) Title
08:30-09:30 Plenary Lecture-Prof. Dr. Dimitry Murzin Catalysis for making sustainable aviation fuel
09:30-09:50 Berfin Güleryüz, Seda Karaboğa, Ayse Dilay Erdali, Yusuf Kocak, Rukiye Babacan Tosun, Miray Tamer, Kaan Karaca and Emrah Özensoy Structure Sensitivity in DeNOx Catalysis on Shape-Defined Cu2O Nanocrystal Model Catalysts
09:50-10:10 Asım Ahmet Dede, Ayse Dilay Erdali  and Emrah Özensoy How Single Atoms Keep Your Catalysts Alive: Effect of Particle Size on Sulfur Poisoning and Regeneration of Rhodium Active Sites
10:10-10:30 Musab Esmail Khalil Doutoum and Hüseyin Arbağ Investigation of Sulfur-resistant Nickel-based catalysts in the dry reforming reaction of biogas: Effect of lanthanum loading percentage on the activity
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break  
  Catalyst Design, Synthesis, Characterization and Theory (Chair:Prof. Dr. Ahmet Kerim Avcı)  
11:00-11:20 Mustafa Karatok, Hio Tong Ngan, Xiwen Jia, Christopher R. O'Connor, Anibal J. Boscoboinik, Dario J. Stacchiola, Philippe Sautet and  Robert J. Madix Atomic-Level Insights into Pd-Ag Alloy Surfaces for Selective Hydrogen Production from Formic Acid
11:30-13:15 Lunch- Restoran 346 Sponsor: Sivas Belediyesi
            Unconventional Catalytic Processes (Chair:Prof. Dr.Emrah Özensoy)  
13:20-14:20 Plenary Lecture-Prof. Dr. Christopher Hardacre  Plasma Catalysis for Net Zero Applications
14:20-15:30 Coffee Break  
  In Situ and Operando Characterization (Chair: Prof. Dr. Emrah Özensoy)  
15:30-16:20 Plenary Lecture-Prof. Dr. Andreas-Neil Unterreiner Femtosecond absorption spectroscopy to elucidate elementary mechanisms of molecules in complex environments
16:20-16:40 Prof. Dr. Deniz Üner and Bartu Kiray Operando 1H NMR monitoring of catalytic decomposition of methanol over Pt/TiO2 in the presence of H2O2
16:40-18:00 Poster Session 1  
Time 27 June 2025 Title
08:00-08:30 Registration  
                         Sustainable Catalytic Processes (Chair: Asst. Prof. Dr. Samira Kurtoğlu Öztulum)  
08:30-09:30 Plenary Lecture- Prof. Dr. Marcus Rose Catalysis for the Transformation of Chemistry-Nexus of Catalyst and Process Design
09:30-09:50 Mert Özden, Necdet Semih Altınsoy and  Ahmet Kerim Avcı Beyond Equilibrium CO2 Hydrogenation to Dimethyl Ether
09:50-10:10 Necdet Semih Altınsoy  and Ahmet Kerim Avcı Synthesis gas production by intensified reverse-water gas shift reaction
10:10-10:30 Coffee Break  
  Homogenous Catalysis (Chair: Prof. Dr. Alper Tapan) Title
10:30-11:30 Pleanary lecture-Prof. Dr. Lutz Ackermann Catalyzed Bond Activations with Potential
11:30-12:15 Pleanary lecture Prof. Dr. Saim Özkar Metal-Ligand Interactions in Catalysis
  In Situ and Operando Characterization (Chair:  Prof. Dr. Alper Tapan)  
12:15-12:35 Kaan Karaca, Seda Karaboğa, Ayse Dilay Erdali, Miray Tamer, Yusuf Kocak, Berfin Güleryüz, Rukiye Babacan Tosun and Emrah Özensoy Unraveling Structure-Functionality Relationships of Shape-Defined Cu2O Nanocrystal Model Catalysts for Methanol Decomposition
12:35-14:00 Lunch-Üniversites Sosyal Tesis Sponsor: Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi
14:00-17:15 City Tour  
17:30-19:15 Poster Session 2  
19:30-21:00 Gala Dinner-Sivas Ticaret Odası Sponsor: Sivas Ticaret Odası
     
Time 28 June 2025 Title
08:00-08:30 Registration  
  Computational Catalysis-I (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sarp Kaya)  
08:30-09:10 Pleanary lecture Assoc. Prof. Dr.Murat Oluş Özbek Mechanistic Insights into Methanol Formation and Decomposition via First-Principles Simulations
09:10-09:50 Pleanary lecture Assoc. Prof. Dr.Ali Can Kızılkaya Structure-activity relationships for carbon dioxide utilization over bimetallic catalysts
09:50-10:10 Fatıma Büşra Aslan  and Murat Oluş Özbek CO Hydrogenation Mechanism on Oxygen-Deficient CuO (100) and CuO (111) Surfaces For Methanol Synthesis Using DFT
10:10-10:30 Coffee Break  
10:30-10:50 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yeliz Gürdal Durğun Mechanistic Exploration of Cobalt Polypyridyl Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Using ab-initio Moelcular Dynamics and Metadynamics
10:50-11:10 Prof. Dr. Niyazi Alper Tapan and M. Erdem Günay Exploration of operating , catalytic and material conditions towards CO in CO2 electrolyzers: A machine learning study
  Photocatalysis (Chair: Prof. Dr. Ayşe Bayrakçeken)  
11:15-12:00 Pleanary lecture Prof. Dr. Emrah Özensoy Photocatalysis For Smart Buildings And Airborne NOx Abatement Beyond The Point Of Origin
12:00-12:20 Melike Kopa, Alattin Çakan and  Elif Akbay Upcycling Polymer Waste for Immobilized Tungstophosphoric acid-based Photocatalyst in Dye Degradation
12:20-13:30 Lunch  
  Electrocatalysis (Chair: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Oluş Özbek) Sponsor: KUHyTech
14:00-14:40 Pleanary lecture Prof. Dr. Ayşe Bayrakçeken Methods used to improve the activity of PEM fuel cell electrocatalysts
14:40-15:20 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sarp Kaya Probing the Active Phase of Electrocatalysts
15:20-16:00 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burak Ülgüt Making the Most out of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Uniquely and Correctly Identifying Processes
16:00-16:20 Coffee Break  
16:20-17:00 Pleanary lecture Prof. Dr. Tuğrul Çetinkaya Oxygen Redox Catalysis in Lithium–Air Batteries: Materials, Mechanisms, and Challenges
17:00-17:20 Asst. Prof. Dr. Büşra Dereli Quantum Chemical Characterization of Selectivity Control in Sustainable Transformations
17:20-18:00 Closing Ceremony