Heterogeneous Photocatalysis

Prof. Juan Carlos Colmenares Q. was educated in Colombia through high school, and then moved to Poland in 1991. He graduated from Warsaw University of Technology (Chem.Eng.1995) and obtained his M.Sc. (1997) in Catalysis for Organic Technology and Ph.D. (2004) in Chemical and Material Sciences from the same university and the D.Sc. degree (2015, Habilitation) from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. His interests range from materials science, nanotechnology and heterogeneous catalysis to biomass/CO2 valorisation, solar chemicals, sonication, photocatalysis and water/air purification. After obtaining his Ph.D., he worked at the University of Cordoba, Spain (2005-2006) in Prof. Marinas's group as a post-doctoral fellow and at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USA) (2006-2009) in Prof. G.A. Olah (Nobel Prize in Chemistry) group as a post-doctoral research associate. He is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow. He is serving as an expert evaluator for many important scientific journals or institutions as well as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Sustainable Chemical Processes journal (Chemistry Central). He has co-authored more than 50 works in international scientific journals and books, and filed two patent applications.

Photocatalytic CO2 reduction.- Photocatalytic Water Oxidation.- Heteropolyacid based heterogeneous photocatalysts for environmental applications.- Alternative materials to TiO_2.- 1D TiO2 Nanotube Based Photocatalysts.- Water splitting by photocatalytic reduction.- Photoreactors design aspects and modelling of light.- Solar-Chemical Energy Conversion by Photocatalysis.- Synthetic applications of titanium(IV) oxide based photocatalysts.- Fundamentals of TiO2 photocatalysis: Consequences for some environmental applications.- Fundamental Processes in Surface Photocatalysis on TiO2.