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SUMMARY:Sustainability Series with Wendy Queen
DTSTART:20240423T121500
DTEND:20240423T133000
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DESCRIPTION:“The World’s Most Porous Materials: Pioneering Sustainable
  Solutions for Environmental Challenges”\n\nProgramme:\n\n12:00 - Doors 
 open\n12:15 - Welcome words by Prof. Andreas Mortensen\, Associate Vice Pr
 esident for Research\n12:20 - Talk by Prof. Wendy Queen\, Laboratory of Fu
 nctional Inorganic Materials\n13:10 - Q&A moderated by Dr. Yasmine Calises
 i\, Executive Director of the EPFL Energy Center\n13:30 - End & lunch bags
  distribution \n\nConference in English without live broadcast. Free entr
 ance but registration is mandatory\n\n❓ Ask your questions before and du
 ring the event using this link\n\nAbout the presentation: In this presenta
 tion\, you will first be introduced to the world’s most porous materials
  and then learn about their important applications in gas and liquid separ
 ations\, such as carbon dioxide capture\, water purification\, and the ret
 rieval of valuable metals\, like gold\, from waste.  \n\nAbout Wendy Quee
 n: Prof. Wendy L. Queen obtained her PhD in chemistry from Clemson Univers
 ityin August of 2009. In 2012\, she was appointed a project scientist posi
 tion at the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 
 Berkeley California where she helped launch a new user program focused on 
 the synthesis and characterization of porous adsorbents. In 2015\, she was
  appointed Assistant Professor in the Institute of Chemical Sciences and E
 ngineering at EPFL\, and in 2022 she was promoted to Associate Professor. 
 Her research is focused on the synthesis and characterization of novel por
 ous adsorbents\, such as metal-organic frameworks\, that are of interest i
 n a number of applications such as gas and liquid separations. In 2018\, s
 he won Merck’s 350 Innovation Challenge\, in 2020\, she was named one of
  C&E News“Talented 12”\, an award which highlights “a dozen young ri
 sing stars who are using chemical know-how to change the world”\, and in
  2022 she won the Agora Optimus Prize from the Swiss National Science Foun
 dation. She is also the president of the EPFL-Valais Campus Committee and 
 the academic chair of the EPFL Energy Center.
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