Dr. Miren Agote Arán

Beruflicher Abschluss

• 2019 - Ph.D. Chemistry, Heterogenous catalysis research, University College London (UK)
• 2013 - M.Sc. Chemistry, Synthesis and catalysis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain)
• 2012 - B.Sc. Chemistry, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)

Fachliche Schwerpunkte

• Heterogeneous Catalysis
• Advanced Characterization
• Emission Control
• Power-to-X and CCU

Berufspraxis

• May 2023-Present - Scientist at the Institute of Environmental and Process Engineering (CH).
• Dec 2018-Nov 2022 - Postdocoral Fellow at the Paul Scherrer Institut (CH).
• 2013-2014 - Research Scientist at Johnson Matthey Technology Center (UK).

Fachzeitschrift

• Agote-Arán, M., Welte. B., Freeman R., Mutti N., Haller M., Heel A., “Al6060 cut wire granules for Al-water reaction: Evaluation of reaction conditions and granule treatments” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 117, 430-441 (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.03.117
• Roger, M., Artiglia, L., Boucly, A., Buttignol, F., Agote-Arán, M.,van Bokhoven, J., Kröcher, O., Ferri, D. (2023) Improving time-resolution and sensitivity of in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of a powder catalyst by modulated excitation, in: Chemical Science, Jg. 14, S. 7482-7491. DOI: 10.1039/D3SC01274C
• -Agote Aran, M., Jacobsen, V.V., Elsener, M., Schütze, F.W., Schilling C.M., Sridhar, M., Katsaounis, E., Kröcher, O., Alxneit, I., Ferri, D., “Thermal sintering and phosphorus poisoning of a layered Diesel oxidation catalyst” Topics in Catalysis 66, 777, (2022). DOI: 10.1007/s11244-022-01752-w
• Lezcano-Gonzalez, I., Cong, P., Campbell, E., Panchal, M., Agote-Arán, M., Celorrio, V., He, Q., Oord, R., Weckhuysen, B.M., Beale, A.M. “Structure-activity Relationships in Highly Active Platinum-Tin MFI-type Catalysts for Propane Dehydrogenation” ChemCatChem, 14, e202101828, (2022). DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202101828
• Agote Arán, M., Alijani, S., Cofano, C., Villa, A., Ferri, D., “Effect of Pt Particle Size and Phosphorous Addition on Furfural Hydrogenation Over Pt/Al2O3” Catalysis Letters, 152, 980, (2022). DOI: 10.1007/s10562-021-03685-7
• Wang, M., Eggenschwiler P. D., Franken, T., Agote-Arán, M., Ferri, D., Kröcher, O.,“Investigation on the role of Pd, Pt, Rh in methane abatement for heavy duty applications” Catalysts, 12, 373, (2022). DOI: 10.3390/catal12040373
• Franken, T., Roger, M., Petrov, A.W., Clark, A.H., Agote-Arán, M., Krumeich, F., Kröcher, O., and Ferri, D., “Effect of Short Reducing Pulses on the Dynamic Structure, Activity, and Stability of Pd/Al2O3 for Wet Lean Methane Oxidation” ACS Catalysis, 11, 4870-4879, (2021). DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c00328
• Chiarello, G.L., Lu, Y., Agote-Arán, M., Pellegrini, R., Ferri, D. (2021) Changes of Pd Oxidation State in Pd/Al2O3 Catalysts Using Modulated Excitation DRIFTS, in: Catalysts, Jg. 11, S. 16. DOI:10.3390/catal11010116
• Agote-Arán, M.,* Elsener, M., Schütze F.W., Schilling C.M., Sridhar, M., Katsaounis, E., Kröcher, O., Ferri, D., (2021) On the relevance of P poisoning in real-world DOC aging, in: Applied Catalysis B, Jg. 291, S. 120062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120062
• Agote-Arán, M.,* Elsener, M., Schütze F.W., Schilling C.M., Sridhar, M., Katsaounis, E., Kröcher, O., Ferri, D. (2021) Understanding the impact of poison distribution on the performance of Diesel oxidation catalysts, in: Applied Catalysis B, Jg. 229, S. 120684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120684
• Matras, D., Vamvakeros, A., Jacques, S. D. M., Middelkoop, V., Vaughan, G., Agote Aran, M., Cernik, R. J. and Beale, A. M. “In situ X-ray diffraction computed tomography studies examining the thermal and chemical stabilities of working Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8 Fe0.2O3-δ membranes during oxidative coupling of methane”. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 22, 18964, (2020). DOI: 10.1039/d0cp02144j
• Greenaway, A.G., Margerber, A., Thetford, A., Lezcano-González, I. Agote-Arán, M., Nachtegaal, M., Ferri, D., Kröcher, O., Catlow, C.R.A., Beale, A.M. (2020) Detection of key transient Cu intermediates in SSZ-13 during NH3-SCR deNOx by modulation excitation IR spectroscopy, in: Chemical Science, Jg. 11, S. 447-455. DOI: 10.1039/C9SC04905C
• Agote-Arán, M., Fletcher R. E., Briceno M., Sazanovich I. V., Slater B., Rivas M. E. Smith A.W.J., Collier P. Lezcano-González, I., Kroner, A.B., Beale, A.M. (2020) Implications of the Molybdenum Coordination Environment in MFI Zeolites on Methane Dehydroaromatisation Performance, in: ChemCatChem, Jg. 12, S. 294-304. https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201901166
• Lezcano-Gonzalez, I., Campbell, E., Hoffman, A. E. J., Bocus, E., Sazanovich, I. V., Towrie, M., Agote-Arán, M., Gibson, E. K., Greenaway, A., De Wispelaere, K., Van Speybroeck, Beale, A. M. (2020) Insight into the effects of confined hydrocarbon species on the lifetime of methanol conversion catalysts, in: Nature Materials, Jg. 19, S. 1081-1087. doi:10.1038/s41563-020-0800-y 
• Vamvakeros, A. Matras, D., Jacques, J., Michael, M., Price, S., Seneca, P., Agote-Arán, M., Middelkoop, V., Stenning, Mosselmans, F., Ismagilov, I., Beale, A., (2020) Real-time multi-length scale chemical tomography of fixed bed reactors during the oxidative coupling of methane reaction, in: Journal of Catalysis, Jg. 386, S. 39-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2020.03.027
• Agote-Arán, M., Lezcano-González, I., Kroner, A.B., Sławiński, W.A. Wragg, D., Beale A.M. (2020) Understanding the Deactivation Phenomena of Small-Pore Mo/H-SSZ-13 during Methane Dehydroaromatisation, in: Molecules, Jg. 25, S. 5048. DOI:10.3390/molecules25215048
• Jabłonska, M., Agote-Arán, M., Beale, A.M., Kinga Gora M., Delahay, G., Petitto, C., Pacultova, K., Palkovits, R. “Catalytic Decomposition of N2O over Cu–Al–Ox Mixed Metal Oxides” RSC Advances, 9, 379, (2019). DOI: 10.1039/c8ra10509j
• Jabłonska, M., Agote-Arán, M., Beale, A.M., Kinga Gora M., Delahay, G., Petitto, C., Pacultova, K., Palkovits, R. (2019) Catalytic Decomposition of N2O over Cu–Al–Ox Mixed Metal Oxides, in: RSC Advances, Jg. 9, S. 379-386. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8RA10509J
• Agote-Arán, M., Lezcano-González, I., Kroner, A.B., Islam, H., Sławiński, W.A. Wragg, D., Beale A.M. (2019) Determination of Molybdenum Species Evolution during Non-Oxidative Dehydroaromatisation of Methane and its Implications for Catalytic Performance, in: ChemCatChem, Jg. 11, S. 473-480. https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201801299
• Agote-Arán, M., Lezcano-González, I., Greenaway, A.G., Shusaku H., Díaz-Moreno, S., Kroner, A.B., Beale, A.M., (2019) Operando HERFD-XANES/XES Studies Reveal Differences in the Activity of Fe-species in MFI and CHA Structures for the Standard Selective Catalytic Reduction of NO with NH3, in: Applied Catalysis A, S. 283-291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2018.11.026
• Jabłońska, M., Agote-Arán, M., Andrew A.M., Palkovits, R. (2019) Understanding the origins of N2O decomposition activity in Mn or Fe-doped Co-Al-Ox mixed metal oxides, in: Applied Catalysis B, Jg. 243, S. 66-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2018.10.010
• Greenaway, A.G., Lezcano-González, I. Agote-Arán, M., Gibson, E.K., Odarchenko, Y., Beale, A.M. (2018) Operando Spectroscopic Studies of Cu–SSZ-13 for NH3–SCR deNOx Investigates the Role of NH3 in Observed Cu(II) Reduction at High NO Conversions, in: Topics in Catalysis, Jg. 61, S. 175-182. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-018-0888-3

Paper

• Silverwood, I., Agote-Arán, M., González-Lezcano, I., Kroner, A.B., Beale, A.M. “QENS Study of Methane Diffusion in Mo/H-ZSM-5 used for the Methane Dehydroaromatisation Reaction” AIP Conference Proceedings, 1969, 030002, (2018). DOI: 10.1063/1.5039294

Buchkapitel

• Allen, L., Agote-Arán, M., Beale, A.M., Cong, P., Mediavilla-Madrigal, S., Price, S.W.T. (2022) EXAFS Studies of Inorganic Catalytic Materials, Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry III, in: Elsevier (Hrsg.)

• Agote-Arán, M., Welte, B., Freeman, R., Schmidt, E., Mutti, N., Huppi, J., Bäuerle, Y., Novak, V., Chang, C., Haller, M., Heel, A., “Low Temperature Aluminium-Water Reactions” International Symposium on Renewable Metal Fuels, Rapperswil, February 12-13 (2025).
• Agote-Arán, M., Welte, B., Freeman, R., Mutti, N., Haller, M., Huppi, J., Bäuerle, Y., and Andre Heel, A., “Production of H2 from Al-water reactions, evaluation of parameters for an Al-to-Energy prototype operation” MeCRE Conference, Darmstadt November 13-15 (2024).
• Agote Aran, M., Elsener. M., Coffano, C., Jacobsen, Sridrhar, M., Kroecher,O., V. Ferri, D., “Understanding the Aging Phenomena of Diesel Oxidation Catalysts” 27th North American Catalysis Society Meeting, New York, May 22-27, (2022).
• Agote-Arán, M., Elsener, M., Schütze, F. W., Schilling, C. M., Sridhar, M. Katsaounis, E., Kröcher, O., and D. Ferri “Understanding the aging phenomena of Diesel oxidation catalysts” International Congress on Catalysis And Automotive Pollution Control (CAPoC), Brussels, August 29-31, (2022).
• Agote-Arán, M., Elsener, M., Schütze, F. W., Schilling, C. M., Sridhar, M. Katsaounis, E., Kröcher, O., and D. Ferri “On the deactivation of DOCs” 19th Nordic Symposium on Catalysis (NSC) Espoo, June6-8, (2022).
• Agote Aran, Krumeich, F., Coffano, C., M., Ferri, D., “Aging of Diesel Oxidation Catalysts: Hydrothermal Vs Chemical Effects” 17th International Congress on Catalysis, online, (2020).