Emiel Hensen, born in Geleen (The Netherlands) in 1971, received his master degree in chemical engineering and chemistry from Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) in 1994. He obtained his PhD from the same university in the field of molecular heterogeneous catalysis under the supervision of Prof. Rutger van Santen and Prof. Rob van Veen. He then took up an assistant professor position with Prof. Berend Smit at University of Amsterdam. In 2001 he returned to Eindhoven University of Technology as an assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 2008. From 2006-2008 he was a visiting research scientist at the Shell Research and Technology Center Amsterdam (The Netherlands) through a Casimir grant. Hensen is since July 2009 full professor inorganic materials chemistry at Eindhoven University of Technology. He was a visiting professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) from 2001 until 2016, a visiting professor at Hokkaido University (Japan) in 2016 and distinguished professor at Xiamen University (China). Hensen is the (co)author of some 300 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, 2 patents, several articles in national journals and 10 book contributions. He obtained the prestigious Veni, Vidi and Vici grants as well as a TOP grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Hensen is chairman of the Netherlands Research School for Catalysis (NIOK), management team member of the national gravitation program Multiscale Catalytic Energy Conversion (MCEC), board member of the European Research Institute of Catalysis (ERIC) and board member of Chemelot InSciTe. He is member of the Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Blocks Consortium. Hensen was appointed dean of the department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry of the Eindhoven University of Technology in 2016.
