Swiss Cat+

We’re proud to share that Swiss CAT+ East at ETH Zurich has been awarded the Green Labs Gold Certification! 🏅🌱 (https://lnkd.in/eRvDBDdH) This recognition, granted through the LEAF (Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework) as part of the ETH Sustainability initiative, reflects our ongoing commitment to reducing our environmental footprint and promoting sustainable lab practices. 🌍♻️ This milestone was achieved through a variety of conscious efforts — from sharing equipment and chemicals, digitalizing documentation, and minimizing unnecessary resource usage wherever possible. A huge thanks to our amazing Swiss CAT+ East team for their dedication and to our fantastic users for your continued support and trust. And thanks to the ETH GreenLabs team for your support in our journey toward sustainability. Let’s keep pushing for a greener, more sustainable future — together! 💚 #GreenLabs #Sustainability #ETHZurich #SwissCAT+ #LabEfficiency #LEAF #GreenResearch

Great to see the Swiss Cat+ platform at ETHZ playing a key role in this groundbreaking work! 🚀 By running 200+ experiments in just a few days using high-throughput tools, Hannes Frey contributed to accelerating the search for optimal CO₂ mineralization materials for Forge Minerals. Congratulations to Sylvain Petitgirard and his team—looking forward to continuing this collaboration! #HighThroughput  #CarbonCapture #CO2Utilization #ClimateTech #ETHZurich

We are thrilled to welcome two new team members to the Swiss Cat+ East family at ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg. Kourosh Shariat joined us at the beginning of this year as a Machine Learning Engineer. With his expertise in data management and machine learning applications in chemistry, he brings valuable knowledge to our team - we’re excited to have him on board! Alex Guesh has been with us since November for a 6-month internship, contributing his skills and enthusiasm. We’re confident that both Kourosh and Alex will make a meaningful impact and help drive our mission forward. 🚀 #Welcome #GrowingTeam

We are pleased to present our latest work on open research data (ORD). This work describes a Python library developed at ETHZ SwissCAT+ as part of its data management strategy. Output data from various high-throughput/automated equipment such as Chemspeed, Unchained Labs and Avantium are merged and processed to be further used in AI-driven closed loop optimization workflows using Atinary Technologies's SDLabs platform. The presented Python library enables transparent tracing on how data are processed and normalized to foster effective utilization of open research data.   We thank all the authors for contributing to this work: Erwin Lam, Tanguy Maury, Sebastian Preiss, yuhui Hou, Hannes Frey, Caterina Barillari, Paco Laveille.   We thank the swissuniversities B3.2: ORD Funding for Existing Research Infrastructures of Strategic Relevance, and the ETH Board (ETH-Rat) Open Research Data (ORD) Program Measure 1: Field-specific actions Track C: Contribute Projects for their financial support to implement ORD and FAIR compatible data management components in catalysis. #ORD #LabAutomation #DigitalCatalysis #openresearchdata #swisscatpluseast

Since its inception in 2021, in addition to advanced automated and high-throughput experimentation in the field of heterogeneous catalysis, ETHZ SwissCAT+ has started developing and implementing a fully digital data management strategy to facilitate and standardize large database processing.   In continuation of this work, we are happy to announce that we have just been awarded two Open Research Data (ORD) grants: swissuniversities: B3.2: ORD Funding for Existing Research Infrastructures of Strategic Relevance (152 kCHF) with the aim to implement an overall data management strategy with the possibility to be implemented at other facilities. ETH Board (ETH-Rat): Open Research Data (ORD) Program Measure 1: Field-specific actions Track C: Contribute Projects (15 kCHF) targeting streamlined and standardized heterogeneous catalysis characterization data.   We thank the open science delegation from swissuniversities, the ETH Board (ETH-Rat) and the reviewers for their positive evaluation. We are looking forward to contributing to shaping the ORD landscape in the field of heterogeneous catalysis. #ORD #LabAutomation #DigitalCatalysis #openresearchdata #swisscatpluseast

Despite the summer period, motivation is there!

With mixed emotions, we bid farewell to Mark Gerlach, who has been with us for the past year, filling our lab in Zürich with great energy and team spirit. As he embarks on this new chapter, we wish Mark all the best and thank him for his dedication and hard work. We hope to see you again very soon! 👋🍀 #ETHZ #Farewell #GoodLuckMark #TeamSpirit #BestWishes #Gratitude #Goodbye

The Swiss Cat+ East family is further growing 🎉 and we are pleased to welcome the newest members of our team, Simon Skibbe and Timon Gradinger. Simon Skibbe is doing a 6 month internship as a Research Engineer with us, focusing on method development for catalyst characterization and associated data management. Timon Gradinger joins us as a Laboratory Technician and will mainly focus on support and maintenance of the devices and automated syntheses. #TeamGrowth #NewHires #ETHZ