PhD Candidates

  • Adriaan Duijndam
    Detecting micro- and nanoplastics from various environmental matrices
  • Adrian Hergesell
    Mechano-catalytic conversion of polyolefin waste
  • Albaraa Falodah
    Fundamental Insights in the Kinetic Behavior of Supported Metallocene Catalysts
  • Angela Melcherts
    Thermochemical CO2 conversion over supported metal catalysts
  • 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
  • Daan Groefsema
    Luminescence Thermometry for Operando Monitoring of Local Temperatures during Endothermic and Exothermic Hydrocarbon Conversion Processes
  • 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
  • Fieke Sluijs
    Da Vinci Project. How can we educate changemakers?
  • 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 Bos
    Investigation and optimization of the iso-oleic acid hydrogenation process by coupled in-situ spectroscopies and bifunctional catalysis
  • Jelle Kranenborg
    CO2 hydrogenation on copper: structure sensitivity and support effects
  • Jochem van de Minkelis
    Hydrothermal conversion of polyethylene in supercritical water
  • Joëlle Siewe
    Elucidating the Role of Late Transition Metals as Promotor Elements in Noble Metal-based Redox Catalysts
  • 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
  • Mariangela Biggiero
    Catalytic behavior of post transition metals in the electroreduction of CO2 to formate
  • Martijn Hut
    Bi and trimetallic systems for CO/CO2 hydrogenation
  • Mirjam de Graaf
    Catalytically active coatings for the removal of indoor pollutants
  • 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
  • Sebastian Rejman
    Value-added products from polyolefin waste by catalytic pyrolysis
  • Sibylle Schwartmann
    Analysis of catalyst for electrochemical alcohol oxidation coupled to hydrogen production
  • Simone Mosk
    Developing operando analysis methods for ball milling-based recycling of plastics
  • Sofie Ferwerda
    Operando Micro-Spectroscopy of Coke Formation in Dry Methane Reforming Catalysis
  • 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
  • Xiang Yu
    Al2O3-x-based single-atom-catalysts for methane conversion