PhD Candidates

  • Adriaan Duijndam
    Detecting micro- and nanoplastics from various environmental matrices
  • Adrian Hergesell
    Mechano-catalytic conversion of polyolefin waste
  • Bas den Hartigh
    Investigation of strong metal-support interactions of the CO2 hydrogenation reaction over CoO/TiO2 catalysts
  • Cecilia Allueva Y Alava
    CO2 hydrogenation to higher alcohols
  • Devanshu Sajwan
    Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis for Bio-based Selective Aromatics Production
  • En Chen
    Photo-assisted Solvolysis of Polyolefins
  • Feixiang Xu
    Enhancing Plastic Recycling: Catalytic Pyrolysis of Polymers via Thermal Kinetics and Molecular Dynamics
  • Fleur Neijenhuis
    Towards the Refinery of the Future: Exploring the Combination of Hydrogen Production, Reverse Water-Gas-Shift and Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis to Make Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals
  • Floor Brzesowsky
    A dancing catalyst for carbon dioxide utilization
  • Hanya Spoelstra
    Design methane decomposition catalyst materials building on insights obtained by in-situ and operando spectroscopy and microscopy
  • Haoxiang Yan
    A complete transformation path for C-C backboned plastic wastes to high-value chemicals and materials
  • Hui Wang
    Revealing the restructuring of electrocatalysts during CO2 electroreduction with in-situ electrochemical AFM
  • Iwan Verduijn
    Understanding long-term CO2 conversion catalyst behavior with high-pressure operando x-ray and vibrational spectroscopy
  • Jan den Hollander
    3-D chemical imaging of coke deposits and metal sintering within honeycomb catalyst materials for hydrogen production
  • Jelle Kranenborg
    CO2 hydrogenation on copper: structure sensitivity and support effects
  • Jochem van de Minkelis
    Hydrothermal conversion of polyethylene in supercritical water
  • Jorrit van der Velde
    Developing sustainable solutions to counter scale formation in cleaning applications
  • Kirsten Siebers
    Spectroscopic and morphological fingerprinting of micro- and nanoplastics at multiple length scales
  • Laura Seidling
    Mechano-catalytic conversion of polyolefin waste
  • Laura Zoutendijk
    In-depth characterization of micro- and nanoplastics in maternal and fetal tissues
  • Lisa de Waart
    Towards Circular Use of Pigments in the Recycling of Plastics
  • Mariangela Biggiero
    Catalytic behavior of post transition metals in the electroreduction of CO2 to formate
  • Martijn Hut
    Modelling Metal Support Interactions for Co/TiO2
  • Nicolette Maaskant
    Shining new light on photoenhanced catalytic CO2 hydrogenation
  • Robin Conradi
    Alloying, Poisoning, and Support Effects in Cobalt-based CO and CO2 Hydrogenation Catalysis
  • Roos Grote
    Smart fabrication of photonic/catalytic ensembles for thermo-plasmonic photocatalysis and light-based sensing
  • Roy Maas
    Radical initiated plastic cracking
  • Sarah Schmidt
    Catalytic extrusion for recycling of plastic waste
  • Sibylle Schwartmann
    Analysis of catalyst for electrochemical alcohol oxidation coupled to hydrogen production
  • Sichen Song
    Micro-spectroscopic detection of airborne exposome harvested on novel surface modified filters.
  • Simone Mosk
    Developing operando analysis methods for ball milling-based recycling of plastics
  • Tom Smak
    Thermo-oxidative degradation of polyethylene waste to valuable carboxylic acids
  • Vaishnavi Ganesh
    Elucidation of the Organic- versus Inorganic-driven Deactivation of Aniline and Phosgene Synthesis Catalyst Materials with Spectroscopy and Microscopy