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University of Wisconsin - Madison

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5.08/20/2025

Creates a collaborative and inclusive space.

5.03/31/2025

Encourages deep understanding and curiosity.

4.02/27/2025

Always patient, kind, and understanding.

5.02/10/2025

Thank you for being such a thoughtful and patient professor. Your encouragement made a huge difference in my confidence and performance.

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About Ive

Ive Hermans is the John and Dorothy Vozza and Evan P. and Marion Helfaer Professor in the Department of Chemistry and a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He obtained his M.Sc. in 2002, Ph.D. in 2006 under the supervision of Profs. Pierre Jacobs and Jozef Peeters, and postgraduate degree in Business Administration in 2006 from K.U.Leuven, Belgium. After a postdoctoral position with Prof. Alfons Baiker, he served as Assistant Professor for heterogeneous catalysis at ETH Zurich starting in 2008. In 2013, he joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he leads a multidisciplinary team of chemists and chemical engineers addressing challenges in sustainable chemistry and catalysis engineering. His research focuses on the sustainable synthesis of chemicals using homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts, including the development of catalytic materials, elucidation of reaction mechanisms through in situ spectroscopy, chemical kinetics, reaction engineering, and computational predictions of reactivity. He serves as Associate Editor of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.