2026

Doctoral candidate Peter Ng'ang'a Njoroge at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Rational Design of Mordenite: Linking Synthesis Parameters, Framework Properties, Copper Speciation and Methane-to- Methanol Performance for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Agnieszka Seremak at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Molecular Insights into Guest-Host Interactions in Zeolite and Zeotype Catalysts for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Yabing Wen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Hydration, proton transport, and effects of defect interactions in acceptor-substituted BaZrO₃ for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Mouhammad Abu Rasheed at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Catalytic testing of Cu-based systems inspired by C–H oxidizing metalloenzymes" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Yizhou Shen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Oxygen Surface Exchange Kinetics: The Role of Charge Transfer Dynamics for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Valmir Rodrigo da Silva at the Chemistry Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Synthesis and Characterization of Iron Nickel-based alloys for rare earth-free permanent magnet applications for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Simon Elias Schrader at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Rothe’s method with Gaussians for quantum dynamics" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Mohamed Eid Ahmed Safy at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Computationally guided CO2 to methanol catalysis: From a mechanistic investigation to a descriptor-based screening" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.