Scientific staff

Secretaries
Technicians
- Ad van der Eerden
- Dennie Wezendonk
- Hans Meeldijk
- Jan Willem de Rijk
- Remco Dalebout (previously a PhD candidate)
Postdoctoral Fellows
- Hebatalla Elnaggar: RIXS dichroism on strongly correlated systems
- Mahnaz Ghiasi Kabiri: X-ray Spectroscopic characterization of perovskite thin films
- Min Tang: TEM and HR-TEM ex situ and in situ studies of supported catalysts
- Oscar Daoura: Syngas Reaction with Light Olefins to Produce High Value Products
- Valerio Gulino: New generations solid-state batteries
- Tom Welling: Gas-cell EM studies of methane decomposition during carbon nanomaterial growth
- George Tierney: X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy on Supported Catalyst Materials
- Rodrigo García-Muelas
PhD Candidates
- Claudia Keijzer: Ultra pure and structured porous materials as catalyst supports
- Federica Frati: theory of x-ray absorption spectroscopy
- Francesco Mattarozzi: Electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide: elucidating the role of carbon-supported silver nanoparticles, support and electrolyte
- Giorgio Totarella: Supported Copper-based catalysts for selective hydrogenation
- Henrik Rodenburg: Developing high-performance solid-state anion conductors
- Jogchum Oenema: Bi-functional zeolite based catalysts
- Johan de Boed: Support Effects in Gold-Catalyzed Direct Propylene Epoxidation
- Kristiaan Helfferich: Fundamental study of bimetallic catalyst preparation
- Lappawat Ngamwongwan – Combining machine learning and density-functional theory to study the electronic and ionic transport in battery materials
- Lars van der Wal: Zeolite-based catalysts synthesis: advanced electron microscopy studies
- Laura Barberis: Cu-based catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol
- Laura de Kort: Metal hydride based nanocomposite materials as fast ion conductors for all-solid-state batteries
- Luc Smulders: Metal (Oxide) – Acid Catalysts for Hydrocarbon Conversion
- Maaike van Ittersum: New electrodes for CO2 conversion – nanomorphology and composition
- Marta Perxés – Studying restructuring in bimetallic catalysts using in-situ transmission electron microscopy
- Masoud Lazemi: Femtosecond XAS and RIXS of transition metal oxides
- Matt Peerlings: Understanding the degradation and increasing the lifetime of electrodes and membranes under harsh operating conditions
- Nienke Visser: Exploring fundamental characteristics of nickel-based catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation
- Oscar Brandt Corstius: Metal clusters for selective hydrogenation of olefins
- Petra Keijzer: Fundamental studies of supported silver catalyst genesis and usage
- Qijun Che: Operando x-ray spectroscopy of the oxygen evolution reaction.
- Savannah Turner: The Fundamentals of the Activation of Industrial Nickel Based Catalyst Precursors.
- Suzan Schoemaker: Decomposition of methane to green hydrogen and carbon nanomaterials
- Yuang Piao: Bifunctional catalysts for DME and methanol synthesis