On 14-19th July 2024, Kyriazis Rekos, PhD student at Prof. Triantafyllidis’s group participated in the 18thInternational Congress on Catalytics which was held in Lyon, France. Kyriazis Rekos, PhD student, presented a poster entitled “Catalytic hydrogenation of glucose to sorbitol over supported Pt and Ru catalysts – Optimization at gram and kilogram scale”. The work focused on the lab scale hydrogenation of glucose to sorbitol and the pilot scale production of sorbitol under the optimized conditions. The work disseminated Kyriazis’s PhD thesis as well as BIOMAC project (European Union, Horizon 2020, No. 952941,