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2025 Erwin Hahn Awardee
Lynn Gladden is Professor of Chemical Engineering, in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. She studied chemical physics at the University of Bristol before moving to the Department of Physical Chemistry at Cambridge to do her PhD on ‘Structural Studies of Inorganic Glasses’ which introduced her to neutron and X-ray scattering, and solid-state NMR. She then moved to a faculty position in the Department of Chemical Engineering in Cambridge where she established a research group focussed on applying magnetic resonance techniques to study chemical engineering processes and, in particular, systems in which porous materials play a central role. The group’s initial focus was on heterogeneous catalysis and controlled release pharmaceutical delivery systems and these interests continue to this day. The group’s recent work has been targeted at operando studies of Fischer-Tropsch catalysis which is a core technology for the manufacture of sustainable fuels. Central to these research areas has been the capability of magnetic resonance to study both chemical and transport processes. Lynn is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK, and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
2023 Erwin Hahn Awardee
Henk Van As received his PhD from Wageningen University in 1982 and continued as a PD in the same group. Since 1986 he is an Associate Professor (Biophysics) at Wageningen University. He retired in 2019. His research focused on unravelling and understanding transport processes and (water) dynamics at different time and length scales in porous bio-systems to unravel structure-function relationships. For this, Time Domain NMR and quantitative MRI (correlated relaxometry, diffusometry and flow and the effect of exchange), and (rheo-)MRI methods and hardware were developed.