The workshop entitled "Present and future perspective of catalysis in ALBA II" aims to define the path to follow from the current tools for catalytic research that ALBA offers to the ones that ALBA II should provide, considering the trends in catalysis within the next decades. The goal is to offer within ALBA II a set of state-of-the-art synchrotron characterization techniques to investigate the design, preparation and optimization of catalysts before, after or during the reactions of interest or at any stage of their synthesis. Special attention should be placed on:

1. Role of synchrotron techniques answering to challenges in catalysis in the next years

2. Approach and strategy for combination of synchrotron and laboratory techniques/facilities: sample environments, TEM instrumentation, operando experiments combined with complementary techniques (e.g. XAS/DRIFT/MS).

3. Data collection and analysis strategy: time resolved and modulated experiments, high throughput data collection, data science (statistical analysis, machine learning, etc.), theoretical calculations

4. Knowledge transfer and implementation of synergies with industry