prof. Thybaut is heading the Catalytic Reaction Engineering (CaRE) research group, comprising about 15 junior researchers and post-docs, within the Laboratory for Chemical Technology at Ghent University. Prof. Thybaut and his group actively investigate a variety of large-scale industrial reactions and more particularly, the rational design of the corresponding catalysts as well as of the reactors in which these reactions are exploited. Ideal gas phase reactions as well as strongly non-ideal liquid phase reactions are addressed. Within the field of sustainability and circularity prof. Thybaut will innovate the SEMK methodology and use it in the framework of renewable, oxygen containing feeds. Moreover, the scope of the investigated chemistry will be extended towards inorganic and pharmaceutical reactions.