Emiel Jan Maria Hensen is a prominent Dutch chemist and currently professor of Inorganic Materials and Catalysis at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Hensen focuses on developing novel catalysts for a more sustainable future. His research areas are heterogeneous catalysis, kinetics and mechanism, modelling and energy conversion. He and his staff members lead a team of more than 50 scientists including PhD students, postdoctoral research fellows and Master and Bachelor students.