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Damien Debecker

@deuxbeck.bsky.social
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Father of 3 💪. Professor @UCLouvain_be 🎓. Preparation of heterogeneous catalysts (sometimes including enzymes) 🔬 for more sustainable chemical processes 🌱. Associate Editor at Chem & Bio Engineering (ACS)

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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
It's about time. #Hungary #Trump #Orban edition.cnn.com/2026/04/09/e...
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Trump could soon lose his best friend in Europe | CNN
The Trump administration says “Hungary’s success is our success.” Why?
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
4 enzymes team up in a cascade fashion to convert (waste) glycerol into (high value) l-erythrulose in high final concentration. chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #chemsuschem @chemistryeurope.bsky.social
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l‐Erythrulose Synthesis From Glycerol by a Multienzymatic Cascade Reaction
4 enzymes team up in a cascade fashion to convert (waste) glycerol into (high value) l-erythrulose in high final concentration.
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Chem & Bio Engineering (@pubs.acs.org‬) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes significant advances in all aspects of chemical and biological engineering. pubs.acs.org/journal/cbeh...
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
New paper out! Ethanol dehydration with aerosol-made mesoporous aluminosilicates featuring dispersed active sites www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ethanol dehydration with aerosol-made mesoporous aluminosilicates featuring dispersed active sites
Amorphous aluminosilicates are known for their excellent performance in (bio)ethanol dehydration for ethylene production. Several studies showed that …
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Please note that fathers are NOT allowed to change diapers
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
#courage Big crowds gather in Hungarian capital to defy ban on Budapest Pride www.cnn.com/2025/06/28/e... #orban #Hungary #pride
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Big crowds gather in Hungarian capital to defy ban on Budapest Pride | CNN
Beneath a blaze of rainbow flags and amid roars of defiance, big crowds gathered in the Hungarian capital Budapest for the city’s 30th annual Pride march – an event that, this year, is unfolding as bo...
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The lab in the spotlight today (MOOC in the making)
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Artwork for next paper
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
pro tip: never mark your draft file (paper, report, thesis) as "final". Especially not when you send it to supervisor/collaborators for feedback ;-)
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Flame spray pyrolysis (FSP) was employed to synthesize Ti-modified SiO₂ in a single step, serving as the support for Ru-based catalysts in CO₂ methanation reactions => www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A combined DFT-Experimental study on FSP-made Ru/Ti-SiO2 catalysts for CO2 methanation
Flame spray pyrolysis (FSP) was employed to synthesize Ti-modified SiO₂ in a single step, serving as the support for Ru-based catalysts in CO₂ methana…
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Body of Ukrainian journalist who died in Russian detention returned by Moscow with signs of torture and with missing organs edition.cnn.com/2025/04/30/e...
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Body of Ukrainian journalist who died in Russian detention returned by Moscow with signs of torture | CNN
The body of a young Ukrainian woman who died in Russian captivity after being held incommunicado for many months was returned to Ukraine with several organs removed and showing signs of torture, Ukrai...
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Un avenir sombre pour les universités francophones Plus de 2.000 membres du corps universitaire signant une carte blanche et, disent-ils « s’unissent pour sauver la recherche, l’enseignement et la prospérité ». www.lesoir.be/671749/artic...
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Un avenir sombre pour les universités francophones
Plus de 2.000 membres du corps universitaire signant une carte blanche et, disent-ils « s’unissent pour sauver la recherche, l’enseignement et la prospérité ».
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Now out: CuO-CeO2 composite catalysts prepared in one-step, using a mild aerosol process, and featuring outstanding activity in the total oxidation of air pollutants. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Spray-made porous CuO-CeO2 microspheres rival precious metal catalysts for the low-temperature oxidation of air pollutants
Environmental constraints regarding the abatement of toxic gaseous pollutants such as carbon monoxide and various volatile organic compounds (VOCs) de…
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Proposition: on n'organise pas les examens/délibés/diplomations cette année. (les conducteurs de train bloquent le rail, les bagagistes bloquent les aéroports, les agriculteurs bloquent les autoroutes,... et nous on se fait plumer tranquillement?) www.rtbf.be/article/des-...
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Des pensions rabotées de 30 à 40% pour les professeurs d’université - RTBF Actus
Ce professeur d’université donne cours dans le domaine du recyclage des matériaux. Il a 62 ans. Il est proche de la...
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Guillaume Lobet @guillaumelobet.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🧪🌱💡 #joboffer #plantscijob #postdoc Exciting opportunity to join our #ERC funded #DROOGHT project at the UCLouvain in #Belgium We are looking for a 2-year #postdoc to work on the development of a new #multiscale #root #modelling pipeline. #wheat #drought #root ➡️ bit.ly/postdoc_droo...
Illustration featuring a series of icons representing different concepts: a camera, a bar graph with mathematical symbols, a wheat stalk, a computer monitor, a shovel, a plant growing in a field, interlocking gears, and an Open Science symbol
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Waste to Value => Glycerol, a low value bio-based platform chemical, can be directly converted (in high yields!) to high value rare sugar L-erythrulose, using a multi-enzyme cascade reaction. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... #preprint #chemrxiv
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
See you in La Rochelle! www.isgc-symposium.com
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
ISGC 2025, 12-16 may. The world rendez-vous in sustainable chemistry ! Scientific program is now online. www.isgc-symposium.com
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ISGC
The International Symposium on Green Chemistry
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Mind blowing, really youtu.be/hZMmp-suK4o?... #Adolescence #netflix
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Making-of ADOLESCENCE : 4 épisodes en 4 plans-séquences
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
My morning emoticon.
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Asymmetric Synthesis of Enantiopure Amines Using Membrane-Immobilized Transaminase Article link copied! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Crystallization-Assisted Asymmetric Synthesis of Enantiopure Amines Using Membrane-Immobilized Transaminase
The production of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) requires enantiopure chiral amines, for which greener synthesis processes are needed. Transaminases (TAs) are enzymes that catalyze the enant...
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
#Trump has fired scientists who monitor the #ocean. It comes at the worst possible time www.cnn.com/2025/03/17/c...
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Trump has fired scientists who monitor the ocean. It comes at the worst possible time | CNN
One of NOAA’s most critical roles is to observe the oceans, which are currently undergoing a period of rapid and largely unexplained change.
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Call for applications for a Junior Professor chair at Université de Poitiers "Reaction mechanisms in catalytic processes" www.univ-poitiers.fr/wp-content/u...
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
ChemCatChem: from Europe for the World (Announcing the new Editorial and Early Career Advisory Boards)
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
International Conference on Green & Sustainable Chemistry June 1-5, 2025 – Budapest, Hungary
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Call for Papers in Chem & Bio Engineering: Synthetic Biology—Enabling Technologies and Practical Applications axial.acs.org/chemical-eng....
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Call for Papers: Synthetic Biology—Enabling Technologies and Practical Applications | ACS Publications Chemistry Blog
This Virtual Special Issue from Chem & Bio Engineering will showcase leading research in the field of synthetic biology. Submit your manuscript by September 30, 2025.
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Chemical Society Reviews @chemsocrev.rsc.org · 28/02/2025
Hello #ChemSky community! We're now on bluesky @chemsocrev.rsc.org 💙 Be sure to follow us for top reviews by leading researchers from across the chemical sciences 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬
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ChemComm @chemcomm.rsc.org · 28/02/2025
You can find other @rsc.org journals including @chemsocrev.rsc.org and @chemicalscience.rsc.org in this handy starter pack. go.bsky.app/QAaTTZ3
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Au plus les personnes utilisent l’IA générative dans leur travail, moins elles feront preuve d’esprit critique et au moins elles sollicitent leurs capacités d’analyse. Cela peut "entraîner la détérioration de facultés cognitives qui devraient être préservées". www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio...
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Le recours systématique à l’intelligence artificielle générative détériorerait les facultés cognitives permettant l’esprit critique
Une étude conduite par Microsoft et l'Université Carnegie Mellon pointe les effets sur le cerveau d'une délégation à une IA générative de tâches d'analyse de connaissances.
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
New review out "Progress in advanced MOF-derived materials for the removal of organic and inorganic pollutants" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #MOF
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Progress in advanced MOF-derived materials for the removal of organic and inorganic pollutants
Technology advancement has led to significant environmental pollution causing adverse effects to the environment and human health. To mitigate this, m…
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Is it April fool already? 🤦‍♂️
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
New review, out as a preprint: "Enzyme-membrane-reactors: recent trends and applications for the production of fine chemicals and pharmaceutical building-blocks" chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... @chemrxiv.bsky.social
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Escape-X FR @fr.escape-x.org · 22/01/2025
Bonjour! Vous avez embarqué sur Hello Quitte X, et nous vous en remercions. Comme nous l’avons expliqué lors de la soirée #HelloQuitteX du lundi #20Janvier, nous ne sommes pas encore passés à la phase 2 (activation de la reconnexion). 1/6
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Adam Clancy @clancylab.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Free RSC conference for Nanoscience PhDs and PDRAs this April in London - it will be a great chance to give your first talk or start building collaborations which can last your whole career Please send an abstract, share & join us! Register here: www.rsc.org/events/detai... #chemsky #nanosky #RSC
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BenLee @benlee0711.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
🤔 Musk is a child of Apartheid wealth. Musk didn't invent Tesla, he bought it. Musk didn't invent Spacex, he bought it. Musk didn't invent Starlink, he bought it. Musk didn't invent "X," he bought it. Musk didn't invent Trump, he bought him.
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
my last (latest?) tweet on X
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Can Musk lose influence if politicians, institutions and media leave X? Yes, answers mathematician @chavalarias.bsky.social “We are the ones who give Elon Musk his power. We can take it away from him” www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
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David Chavalarias : «C’est nous qui donnons son pouvoir à Elon Musk. On peut le lui retirer»
Un collectif porté par le mathématicien David Chavalarias a mis au point «HelloQuitteX», une plateforme pour claquer collectivement la porte du réseau social X (ex-Twitter) le 20 janvier sans perdre s...
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Plenary and Keynote speakers for the next International Symposium on Green Chemistry (ISGC). Honored to be included in this prestigious line-up!
International Symposium on Green Chemistry, La Rochelle, France, 2025. François Jérôme. Damien Debecker UCLouvain, biocatalysis, hybrid catalysis. Corma Mintova Kubicka Tarascon Chirik Ruitenbeek
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Excited to start serving as a Chair of ChemCatChem's Editorial Board, together with Deryn Fogg (Ottawa), Anhui Lu (Dalian), and Jennifer Strunk (Munich)! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
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ChemCatChem: Editorial Board
ChemCatChem is a catalysis journal covering the whole spectrum of catalytic chemistry, including homogeneous, heterogeneous, chemo- and biocatalysis.
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 13/01/2025
If RFK Jr. is confirmed. @donttreadonkids.bsky.social
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
More than 60 universities and higher education institutions in Germany have announced their departure from X In a joint statement, the universities condemned the platform for amplifying far-right populist content, calling it “unacceptable” www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/ov...
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Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X
Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship - Anadolu Ajansı
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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The PhD Place - Academic Community @thephdplace.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
A perfect thesis is never finished and a finished thesis is never perfect
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ChemRxiv Bot @chemrxivbot.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Promotional effect of Ti on mesoporous silica-supported Ru catalysts for CO2 methanation Authors: Plaifa Hongmanorom, Valentin Smeets, Aurélien Neraud, Ales Styskalik, Piyasan Praserthdam, Christophe Copéret, Damien Debecker DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-l2lht
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Roli Roberts @roliroberts.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
IT'S OFFICIAL! From today, @plos.org and its journals are no longer posting on Twitter/X. If you want to carry on hearing about great science in our journal, follow @plosbiology.org on Bluesky here: bsky.app/profile/plos...
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Be careful not to handicap our universities through inappropriate pension reform. 👇 sign here chng.it/65hxXR24Tx
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Pensioenhervorming: Universiteiten alert/ Réforme des pensions: Attention aux universités
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
New preprint alert: "Promotional effect of Ti on mesoporous silica-supported Ru catalysts for CO2 methanation" chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... #CO2 #methanation #chemsky #preprint @chemrxiv.bsky.social
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Promotional effect of Ti on mesoporous silica-supported Ru catalysts for CO2 methanation
Understanding the role of metal promoter in CO2 methanation is essential for advancing catalyst design and developing efficient methanation catalysts. Herein, a series of mesoporous Ti-promoted silica...
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Wrapped up last lecture for this semester (end of 2024 was hectic).
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a man in a wet suit is holding a carabiner and a watch that says prime video on it
ALT: a man in a wet suit is holding a carabiner and a watch that says prime video on it
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Chemistry Europe @chemistryeurope.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Hello world: we're happy to be on BlueSky now, too! Stay tuned as we're getting set up here for the #ChemSky community - more to follow soon!
Left: A blue butterfly on a blue background; right: The Chemistry Europe logo and "We're on BlueSky" in white on a black background.
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Damien Debecker @deuxbeck.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Save the date: #RSCPoster is back! The event brings together the global chemistry community to network with colleagues across the world and at every career stage, share their research and engage in scientific debate. lnkd.in/d_zvjWD
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