IZA Young Researcher Award


Sponsored by ExxonMobil

The IZA established the Young Researcher Award in order to recognize and stimulate young talents within the zeolite and related nanoporous materials community.

The Young Researcher Award will be given to an individual for outstanding contribution to the Science and Technology of zeolites and related nanoporous materials, since January 1st of the year of the last IZC to the December 31st of the year before the IZC where the award will be given.

The award, a plaque, will be given to an individual not a group, during the banquet of the International Zeolite Conference. The sponsorship, in the amount of $10,000, is assumed by ExxonMobil and presented at each IZC conference.

The IZA Protocol for the Young Researcher Award can be viewed here.
Young Research Award Recipients
     
  2025 Prof. Rajamani Gounder
for his achievements in the atomic scale control of structures and functions of zeolite catalysts.
  2022 Michiel Dusselier
KU Leuven, Belgium
for his achievements in the knowledge-based development of catalysts for innovative catalytic conversion processes.
  2019 Manuel Moliner
ITQ, Valencia, Spain
for novel synthesis methods to obtain nanosized zeolites and to control active sites distribution in zeolite catalysts.

last updated: 5-Jun-2025