Curriculum Vitae Prof. dr. Pascal Van Der Voort
Curriculum Vitae
Prof. dr. Pascal Van Der Voort
NAME: Van Der Voort, Pascal, FRSC
EMAIL pascal.vandervoort
ugent.be
CURRENT POSITION Senior Full Professor
Director of the Center for Ordered Materials, Organometallics and Catalysis
Ghent University – Krijgslaan 281 – building S3
B-9000 Ghent-Belgium
GOOGLE SCHOLAR: https://scholar.google.be/citations?user=DdI5E8QAAAAJ&hl=en
Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/rid/D-3800-2012
Orcid: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1248-479X
PUBLICATIONS (counting date 01/04/2023)
426 A1 publications (in Thomson-Reuters Web of Science)
14800 citations in Science Citation Index;
2 monographs, 3 books as editor, 10 chapters in books,
6 patents
h-index : 63 (WoS); 71 (Google Scholar)
CURRICULUM
- 1989 – Latin-Sciences (primus perpetuus)
- 1993 - PhD-degree in Chemistry; Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen (University of Antwerp)
Highest Distinction (inorganic-physical-analytical chemistry)(Characterization and surface modification of the silica surface, chemical surface coating)
- 1994 – 2003 -3 mandates of 3 years: Postdoctoral Fellow of the Belgian (later Flemish) Fund for Scientific Research (VOx@silica catalysts, mesoporous oxides, silica, catalysis, spectroscopy)
- 1996 – 1997 - Postdoctoral Stay in Georgia Tech (School of Chemical Engineering, development of novel V-based catalysts).
- 2002 – Postdoctoral Stay ENS de Montpellier on the synthesis and applications of ordered mesoporous silica.
- 2004 – 2006 - Senior executive officer at the Flemish Interuniversity Council.
- 2006 - Tenure at Ghent University as Assistant Professor.
- 2007 – Founding of the Research Center COMOC : Center for Ordered Materials, Organometallics and Catalysis.
- 2011 – Associate Professor at UGent
- 2014 – Full Professor at UGent.
- 2017 – Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
- 2022 – Senior Full Professor at UGent
Career breaks
2003 – 2006 : Senior Staff member at the Flemish Interuniversity Council.
Five representative publications
1. Pascal Van Der Voort, Dolores Esquivel, Els De Canck, Frederik Goethals, Isabel Van Driessche, Francisco J. Romero-Salguero, "Periodic Mesoporous Organosilicas : from simple to complex bridges; a comprehensive overview of functions, morphologies and applications", Chemical Society Reviews, 2013, 42 (9), 3913 – 3955; DOI:10.1039/C2CS35222B. Ranking D1 and Q1, 2/152, subject category: "chemistry – multidisciplinary", Impactfactor(2011) = 28,76, Impactfactor (2020) = 54.56 : top 2% ranking. WoS HIGHLY CITED PAPER 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 – Times cited (01/4/2023) = 381.
2. Xiao Feng, Julianna Hajek, Himanshu Jena, Guangbo Wang, Savita Veerapandian, Rino Morent, Nathalie De Geyter, Karen Leyssens, Alexander Hoffman, Vera Meynen, Carlos Marquez, Dirk De Vos, Veronique Van Speybroeck, Karen Leus, Pascal Van Der Voort, Engineering a highly defective stable UiO-66 with tunable Lewis-Brønsted acidity - The role of the hemilabile linker”, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142, 3174-3183; DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b13070. (Open Access), Ranking D1, Q1, 12/172, subject category “Chemistry, multidisciplinary”, Impactfactor(2020) = 15,419. Top 10% Ranked Journal. WoS HIGHLY CITED PAPER 2020, 2021, 2023, 2023 - Times cited (01/4/2023) = 106.
3. Parviz Derakshandeh, Sara Abednatanzi, Hannes Depauw, François-Xavier Coudert, Henk Vrielinck, Pascal Van Der Voort, Karen Leus, Mixed-Metal Metal-Organic Frameworks, 2019, Chemical Society Reviews, DOI: 10.1039/c8cs00337h Ranking V1, D1, Q1, 2/172, Subject Category “Chemistry, multidisciplinary”, Impactfactor(2020)= 54.56, WoS HIGHLY CITED PAPER 2019, 2020, 2021,2022, 2023; top 2% ranked journal - Times cited = 355
4. Hui Chen, Wanlu Liu, Andreas Laemont, Chidharth Krishnaraj; Xiao Feng, Maria Meledina, Qiqi Zhang, Rik Van Deun, Karen Leus, and Pascal Van Der Voort A Visible Light-Harvesting Covalent Organic Framework bearing Nickle Single Sites as a Highly Efficient Bifunctional Sulfur-Carbon Cross-Coupling Catalyst, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 60, 10820–10827;
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202101036 and 10.1002/ange.202101036
Ranking D1, Q1, 16/178, subject category “Chemistry, multidisciplinary”; Impactfactor(2020) = 15,336. Top 10% ranked journal. Published as HOT PAPER. Highly cited paper 2022, 2023 – Times cited=52
5. Chidharth Krishnaraj, Himanshu Sekhar Jena, Karen Leus, Pascal Van Der Voort*, Covalent Triazine Frameworks, A Sustainable Perspective. Green Chemistry, 2020, 22, 1038 – 1071; DOI: 10.1039/C9GC03482J, Special Issue: International Symposium on Green Chemistry 2019; Impactfactor(2020) = 10.182. Top 5% ranked journal. Highly Cited Paper 2021, 2022, 2023.
Other scientific output
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
- Board member of the Dutch Zeolite Association
- Board member of the Netherlands' Catalysis and Chemistry Conference (NCCC)
- Board member task force “sustainable chemistry”, University of Ghent
- Invited Speaker at International Conferences on Hybrid Materials, Ordered Porous Materials, Metal-Organic Frameworks, Nanomaterials.
Project funding and management
- Delivered 28 PhDs as promoter in the period 2009 – 2022
- 2 GOA projects finished
- MOONSHOT Full SBO on hydrogen storage (running)
- 4 Catalisti ICON projects with industrial consortium
- 1 Marie-Curie fellow, 19 postdocs (FWO, BOF, …)
- Leads a team of on average 25 researchers, composition highly international
- Gained over 15 M€ project funding (2007 – 2023)
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