Prof. Gadi Rothenberg

Gadi Rothenberg has obtained his PhD in 1999 from the Casali Institute of Applied Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Yoel Sasson. After a postdoc in England, he move to the University of Amsterdam, where he is now Professor and Chair of Heterogeneous Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry at the Van `t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences. He has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals and discovered two catalysts, for which he received the Marie Curie Excellence Award in 2004 and the Paul Rylander Award in 2006. Rothenberg also invented 14 patents, and co-founded the companies Sorbisense A/S, Yellow Diesel BV and Plantics BV. His latest invention is a simple catalyst for cleaning out cyanide ions from industrial waste streams.