{"id":7720,"date":"2026-10-07T16:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/?p=7720"},"modified":"2026-10-07T16:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:15:27","slug":"sir-geoffrey-wilkinson-lecture-2026-towards-solar-fuels-and-fertilisers-18-nov-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/2026\/10\/07\/sir-geoffrey-wilkinson-lecture-2026-towards-solar-fuels-and-fertilisers-18-nov-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Lecture 2026 &#8211; Towards Solar Fuels and Fertilisers &#8211; 18 Nov 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f5d3;&#xfe0f;Wednesday 18 November from 17:00 to 19:30<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f4cd;B10, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, White City Campus<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f942;Drinks and canap\u00e9s served after the lecture<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s keynote speaker, Jonas C. Peters, Bren Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Director of the Resnick Sustainability Initiative, will give us insight into solar fuels and fertilisers.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, we will explore innovative approaches to catalysis and the quest to convert nitrogen from the air into ammonia, a process with profound implications for sustainable energy and food production.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/SGWAL26.eventbrite.co.uk\/?aff=ImperialNet\">Register for the event<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor Peters is a world-leading chemist whose research focuses on new concepts for catalysis (including electro- and photocatalysis) with applications in renewable solar fuel technologies, distributed nitrogen fixation for fertilisers and fuels, and chemical transformations fundamental to the synthesis of organic molecules.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/files\/2026\/10\/SGWAL26_Email_px.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7721\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/files\/2026\/10\/SGWAL26_Email_px-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f5d3;&#xfe0f;Wednesday 18 November from 17:00 to 19:30 &#x1f4cd;B10, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, White City Campus &#x1f942;Drinks and canap\u00e9s served after the lecture This year\u2019s keynote speaker, Jonas C. Peters, Bren Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Director of the Resnick Sustainability Initiative, will give us insight into solar fuels and fertilisers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[320928],"tags":[320929,320931],"class_list":["post-7720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-events","tag-doctoral-students","tag-research-staff"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7722,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7720\/revisions\/7722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}