Alumni
Sophie Van Vreeswijk
Advanced Zeolite Characterisation Methods to Investigate the Methanol-to-Hydrocarbons Reaction
December 2022
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Bert Weckhuysen
Roozbeh Valadian
Porous Catalyst Characterization Using X-ray Nano Tomography and Pore Network Modeling
Nikolaos Nikolopoulos
Waste-derived zeolites and shaped catalysts for the methanol-to-hydrocarbons reaction
November 2022
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Koen Bossers
On the Fragmentation Behavior of Ziegler-Type Catalysts During the Early Stages of α-Olefin Polymerization
Maarten Jongkind
Effect of Metal-Alkyl Components on the Formation of Active Sites in Chromium-Based Ethylene Polymerization
Khaled Khalili
Operando Attenuated Total Reflection-Infrared Spectroscopy of Biomass Conversion Processes
Stijn Hinterding
Beyond the ensemble: Excited-state dynamics unveiled by single-nanoparticle spectroscopy
Guusje Delen
In Situ Nano-Spectroscopy on Surface-Anchored Metal-Organic Frameworks
Laurens Mandemaker
The Birth, Life and Death of Surface-Mounted Metal-Organic Frameworks
Suzanne Verkleij
Binder Effects in Catalyst Extrudates - An Operando Micro-Spectroscopy Study
Pasi Paalanen
Iron Carbides and Sodium-Sulphur Promotion in Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis Catalysts
Katarina Stanciakova
Water in Zeolite Pores: Modelling of Water-Active Site Interactions
Anne-Eva Nieuwelink
Spectroscopy and Microreactor Technology for Single catalyst Particle Diagnostics
Beatriz Luna Murillo
Aromatization of Oxygenates over Zeolite Catalysts
Miguel Rivera Torrente
Metal-Organic Frameworks: Defects, Spectroscopy and Catalysis
Charlotte Vogt
Structure Sensitivity in Catalysis
Jochem Wijten
Characterization of Ni-Mo based Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution from Water
Donglong Fu
Oriented zeolite membranes - synthesis, characterization and applications
Jelle Vollenbroek
Microreactors for single catalyst particle diagnostics - Measuring catalytic activity at high-throughput in multi-phase flows
Katinka Wondergem
Time to Shine - PERS for catalysis
Egor Vasilievich Fufachev
Chemical Building Blocks from Fermented Wastewater by Chemocatalytic Conversion
José Gerardo Moya Cancino
New Insights in the Activation and Deactivation of Cobalt-Titania Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis Catalysts
Ivan Garcia Torregrosa
Metal-oxide Photoelectrodes fro Water Splitting: Effect of Co-catalyst and Nanostructured Scaffold
Hai Le The
Nanomachining Regular Noble Metal/Ceramic Structures for Catalytic Applications
Marjolein Velthoen
LEWIS ACIDITY in Cracking and Polymerization Catalysis
Miguel Solsona
SINGLE CATALYST PARTICLE DIAGNOSTICS using Magnetic and Electric Fields
Thomas Hartman
SHINERS (shell-isolated nanoparticle-enhanced Raman spectroscopy) for Heterogeneous Catalysis
Robin Geitenbeek
Luminescence Thermometry - Fundamentals and Applications
Ana Hernández Gimenez
Catalyst Deactivation and Regeneration during Bio-oil Upgrading Processes
Fang Liu
Support Stability and Strong Metal-support Effects in Catalysis
Özgün Attila
Advanced Characterization of Large Zeolite Crystals and Their Use in the Methanol-to-hydrocarbons Process
Naresh Kumar
Development of Tip-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and its Application to Heterogeneous Catalysis Research
Joris Goetze
Operando Spectroscopy on the Reaction Mechanism and Deactivation of MTO Catalysts
Zafer Öztürk
Spectroscopy & Microscopy on the Formation of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks
Ramon Oord
Spectroscopic Insights into Microporous Zeolites for NH3-SCR of NOx and Methane-to-Methanol Activation
December 2017
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Frank Hendriks
Accesibility, Structure and Reactivity of Individual Catalyst Particles Studied by Fluorescence Microscopy
William van der Graaff
Heterogeneous catalysts for selective conversion of carbohydrates
December 2016, TU/e (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands)
Thesis supervisors: Prof. E.J.M. Hensen, Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. E.A. Pidko
Sam Kalirai
Advances in X-ray chemical imaging of a single catalyst particle
December 2016
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. F. Meirer
Zoran Ristanović
Zeolite chemistry studied at the level of single particles, molecules and atoms
March 2016
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Robin Jastrzebski
Catalytic C-C bond cleavage for the production of chemicals from lignin
March 2016
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. P.C.A. Bruijnincx
Korneel Cats
On the deactivation of Cobalt-based Fischer-Tropsch catalysts
March 2016
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Mustafa al Samarai
X-ray spectroscopy and microscopy of cobalt and nickel in CoMoS and CoNiMoS hydrodesulfurization catalysts
March 2016
Thesis supervisors: Prof. F.M.F. de Groot and Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Dimitrije Cicmil
Selective Oligomerization/Polymerization of Ethylene with Cr-based Catalysts
March 2016
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Joseph Stewart
Towards Green Cyclic Carbonate Synthesis - Hetergeneous and Homogeneous Catalyst Development
December 2015
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. P.C.A. Bruijnincx
Matthijs de Winter
Focused Ion Beam - Scanning Electron Microscopy Applied to Electrically Insulating Materials
Carlo Angelici
Ethanol-to-Butadiene Conversion Over SiO2-MgO Catalysts: Synthesis-Structure-Performance Relationships
June 2015
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. P.C.A. Bruijnincx
Sophie Wiedemann
Ferrierite-Catalysed Branching of Unsaturated Fatty Acids
March 2015
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. P.C.A. Bruijnincx
Ilona van Zandvoort
Towards the Valorization of Humin By-products: Characterization, Solubilization and Catalysis
March 2015
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. P.C.A. Bruijnincx
Wenhao Luo
Hydrodeoxygenation of levulinic acid over supported metal catalysts
December 2014
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Evelien van Schrojenstein Lantman
Raman nanospectroscopy of a photo-catalytic reaction
December 2014
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. P.C.A. Bruijnincx
Hendrik van der Bij
Phosphatation of Zeolites: A Combined Spectroscopy, Microscopy and Catalysis Study
December 2014
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Jesper Sattler
Propane dehydrogenation on metal and metal oxide catalysts
November 2014
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Qingyun Qian
Catalytic Conversion of Alcohols into Olefins: Spectroscopy, Kinetics and Catalyst Deactivation
February 2014
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. J. Ruiz-Martinez
Peter Spannring
Fe-Catalyzed Oxidative Cleavage of Unsaturated Fatty Acids
December 2013
Thesis supervisors: Prof. R.J.M. Klein Gebbink, Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. P.C.A. Bruijnincx
Dilek Boğa
Aqueous-Phase Reforming of Renewable Polyols for Production of Hydrogen using Platinum Catalysts
November 2013
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. P.C.A. Bruijnincx
Clare Harvey
Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Heterogeneous Catalysis Research
November 2013
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. A.J.G. Mank
Annelie Jongerius
Catalytic Conversion of Lignin for the Production of Aromatics
September 2013
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. P.C.A. Bruijnincx
Upakul Deka
Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx over Copper-Based Microporous Catalysts
April 2013
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. A.M. Beale
Peter Hausoul
Palladium-Catalyzed Telomerization of 1,2-Butadiene with Biomass-Based Oxygenates
January 2013
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen, Prof. R.J.M. Klein Gebbink and Dr. P.C.A. Bruijnincx
Luis Aramburo Corrales
Spatiotemporal Spectroscopy of Molecular Sieves: Interplay between Hydrothermal Treatments and the Methanol-To-Hydrocarbons Reaction
December 2012
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Inge Buurmans
Catalyst particles for fluid catalytic cracking visualized at the individual particle level by micro-spectroscopy
December 2011
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Davide Mores
In-situ micro-spectroscopy on coke formation processes in zeolites
December 2011
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Bart Hereijgers
Selective Aerobic Oxidation of Hydrocarbons over Supported Gold Catalysts
November 2011
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Lukasz Karwacki
Internal architecture and molecular transport barriers of large zeolite crystals
December 2010
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Nadzeya Beznis
Co and Cu ZSM-5 zeolites for the direct production of oxygenates from methane and oxygen
November 2010
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. J.H. Bitter
Emiel de Smit
Iron-based Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis : new insights from in-situ (micro)spectroscopy, diffraction and theory
November 2010
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Prof. F.M.F. de Groot
Pieter de Peinder
Characterization and Classification of Crude Oils Using a Combination of Spectroscopy and Chemometrics
December 2009
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. T. Visser
Marianne Kox
Spatial Heterogeneities Within an Individual Catalyst Particle as Revealed by In-Situ Micro-Spectroscopy
Letitia Espinosa Alonso
Space and Time Resolved Spectroscopy During the Preparation of Hydrogenation Catalyst Bodies
November 2009
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen, Prof. K.P. de Jong and Dr. A.M. Beale
Muriel Lepage
Support and promoter effects in automotive exhaust catalysis
June 2009
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. T. Visser
Elena Parvulescu
New mechanistic insight into the gold-based propene epoxidation
May 2009
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. T.A. Nijhuis
Ingmar Swart
Adsorption of CO and H2 on Transition Metal Clusters : insights from Vibrational Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory
Alwies van der Heijden
Conversion of chlorinated waste streams from the production of polyvinyl chloride over La-based catalysts
Daniel Radu
Creation of α-oxygen during the N2O decomposition over Mn-ZSM-5
October 2007
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Prof. F.M.F. de Groot
Jaap Bergwerff
Spatially resolved spectroscopy on the preparation of CoMo/Al2O3 hydrodesulphurization catalysts
March 2007
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen, Prof. K.P. de Jong and Dr. T. Visser
Pieter Bruijnincx
Structural and Functional Models of Non-Heme Iron Enzymes : A Study of the 2-His-1-Carboxylate Facial Triad Structural Motif
January 2007
Thesis supervisors: Prof. G. van Koten, Prof. R.J.M. Klein Gebbink and Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Joost van Lingen
A comprehensive model for the supported vanadium oxide catalyst: The umbrella model
November 2006
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen, Dr. J.H. van Lenthe and Dr. O.L.J. Gijzeman
Cristina Nenu
Controlled assembly of a Cr-based heterogeneous single-site ethylene trimerisation catalyst
November 2006
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. P. Bodart
Daphne Keller
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Supported Vanadium Oxide Catalysts
November 2006
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen, Prof. D.C. Koningsberger, Dr. F.M.F. de Groot and Dr. T. Visser
Stan Tinnemans
Combined operando Raman/ UV-Vis-NIR specrocsopy as a tool to study supported metal oxide catalysts at work
June 2006
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen, Dr. T.A. Nijhuis and Dr. T. Visser
Fernando Morales Cano
Manganese Promotion in Titania-Supported Cobalt Fischer-Tropsch Catalysis
April 2006
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Prof. F.M.F. de Groot
Gerbrand Mesu
Host-Guest Chemistry of Cu2+/Histidine Complexes in Molecular Sieves
May 2005
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Dr. T. Visser
Willem Heijboer
New Frontiers in X-ray Spectroscopy of FeZSM-5
April 2005
Thesis supervisors: Prof. D.C. Koningsberger, Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Prof. F.M.F. de Groot