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Towards a sustainable bioeconomy
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Towards a sustainable bioeconomy

11th BioSC Spotlight: "Green Chemistry for a Sustainable Bioeconomy"

June 22, 2026 | 12:00 am - 4:45 pm | Institute of Inorganic Chemistry | Landoltweg 1a | 52074 Aachen

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Climate-friendly, environmentally sustainable and resource-efficient production of materials and chemicals is one of the current major challenges that the bioeconomy is addressing. The 11th BioSC Spotlight aims to explore the intersections of green chemistry and the bioeconomy and the contributions of green chemistry to a sustainable bio-based circular economy. Topics include:

Hybrid processes | Enzymatic retrosynthesis | Gas fermentation | Eco-friendly production and recycling of bio-based polymers | Innovative separation technologies | Sustainability analysis and assessment

The Spotlight will take place as a satellite event to the Fuel & Chemical Science Conference 2026. 


Registration is open!

Please register not later than June 9, 2026:
www.biosc.de/registration_spotlight_green_chemistry

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Agenda

11:00 h Registration and Light Lunch

12:00 h Welcome
                Dörte Rother,  IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich / BioSC

12:05 h Keynote

                Comparison of carbon footprints of petrochemical and biocatalytic processes
                Walter Koch, BASF SE

12:45 h Session I
                Moderator: N.N.

                Redox biocatalytical approaches for fine chemical targets
                Caroline Paul, Department of Biotechnology, TU Delft
                
                Combining multi-enzyme catalyzed processes with chemical and microbial reaction steps
                Dörte Rother, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Forschungszentrum Jülich / BioSC
                
                Concatenated catalytic pathways to platform chemicals
                Jürgen Klankermayer, Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen

14:15 h Coffee Break

15:00 h Session II
                Moderator: Larissa Laurini, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen / BioSC

                Decoding and taming nitrogenases for CO2 conversion
                Johannes Rebelein, Institute for Molecular Enzyme Technology, HHU Düsseldorf / BioSC
                
                Bio-based polymers on a technical scale: Innovative synthesis and separation for circularity
                Sonja Herres-Pawlis, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen / BioSC
                Andreas Jupke, AVT.FVT, RWTH Aachen / BioSC
                
                tba
                N.N.

16:45 h Closing remarks
                Andreas Jupke,  AVT.FVT, RWTH Aachen / BioSC

16:50 h Get-together