Ive Hermans obtained his doctorate and postgraduate degree in Business Administration from KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2006. In 2008, he became Assistant Professor of Heterogeneous Catalysis at ETH Zurich. In 2014, he joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he held the John and Dorothy Vozza and the Evan P. and Marion Helfaer Professorships. In 2025, Prof. Hermans accepted a Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship for Sustainable Chemical Transformations at Johns Hopkins University.
Prof. Hermans leads a multidisciplinary team of chemists and chemical engineers addressing challenges in sustainable chemistry and catalysis engineering.
His research and mentoring have been widely recognized through numerous awards, including the ExxonMobil Chemical European Science & Engineering Award (2009), the Emerging Research Award from the American Chemical Society Division of Energy & Fuels (2014), the UW–Madison Postdoctoral Association Postdoc Mentoring Award (2016), the Robert Augustine Award from the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society (2017), and the Ipatieff Prize from the American Chemical Society (2019). Prof. Hermans was named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2023, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2024 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2025 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. Prof. Hermans currently serves as Associate Editor of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

 

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