PhD Theses
Xuan Liu
Unveiling the electrolyte effects of CO2 electroreduction to CO and H2 Evolution from the interfacial pH perspective
6 February 2025
Thesis supervisors: prof. M. T. M. Koper and prof. B. M. Weckhuysen
Rafaël Vos
Temperature and pressure effects on the electrochemical CO2 reduction
5 February 2025
Thesis supervisors: prof. M. T. M. Koper and prof. B. M. Weckhuysen
Joren Dorresteijn
Porous Supports for Catalytic α-Olefins Polymerization
30 January 2025
Thesis supervisors: prof. B. M. Weckhuysen and prof. E. T. C. Vogt
Co-supervisor: dr. F. Meirer
Ellen Sterk
Microkinetic Modeling of CO2 Methanation on Nickel Surfaces
29 January 2025
Thesis supervisors: prof. B. M. Weckhuysen and prof. E. T. C. Vogt
Co-supervisor: dr. I. Filot and dr. J. Louwen
Thimo Jacobs
Catalysts in Focus: Spectroscopic Toolbox for Mapping Local Temperature and Reaction Phenomena
27 January 2025
Thesis supervisor: prof. B. M. Weckhuysen
Co-supervisors: dr. W. van der Stam
Huygen J. Jöbsis
Track and Trace: Unravelling the formation mechanism and charge carrier dynamics in AgBi-elpasolites
16 January 2025
Thesis supervisors: prof. B. M. Weckhuysen and prof. E. T. C. Vogt
Co-supervisor: dr. E. Hutter
Sander Vonk
Bright materials, better future: Exploring multiexciton emission and upconversion
6 January 2025
Thesis supervisors: prof. A. van Blaaderen and prof. B. M. Weckhuysen
Co-supervisor: dr. F. T. Rabouw
Christia Jabbour
Synthesis, Characterization, and Shaping of UiO-67 Metal-Organic Frameworks
14 October 2024
Thesis supervisor: prof. B. M. Weckhuysen
Co-supervisors: dr. F. Meirer and dr. L. Mandemaker
Rafael Mayorga Gonzalez
Catalyst Pore Space Exploration using Fluorescence and X-Ray Microscopy Techniques
1 July 2024
Thesis supervisors: prof. B. M. Weckhuysen and prof. A. van den Berg
Co-supervisors: dr. F. Meirer and prof. M. Odijk
Michael James Francis Jenks
Chemical Recycling of Polypropylene
10 June 2024
Thesis supervisor: prof. B. M. Weckhuysen
Co-supervisors: dr. F. Meirer and dr. I. Vollmer
Florian Zand
Metal Synergy in Pd-Ni Bimetallics: Assessing and Controlling Metal Segregation
5 June 2024
Thesis supervisor: prof. B. M. Weckhuysen
Co-supervisor: dr. M. Monai
Kordula Schnabl
Chitosan-based Materials: Synthesis, Properties & Tunability
29 May 2024
Thesis supervisor: prof. B. M. Weckhuysen
Co-supervisors: dr. I. Vollmer and dr. L. Mandemaker
Mark Mangnus
Mystifying Photoluminescence Mechanisms Unraveling and exploiting non-ideal behavior of luminescent nanomaterials
February 2024
Thesis supervisor: prof. B. M. Weckhuysen and prof. A. van Blaaderen
Co-supervisors: dr. F. Rabouw
Shuang Yang
Structure−Performance Relationships of Copper and Post−Transition Metals in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
January 2024
Thesis supervisor: prof. B. M. Weckhuysen
Co-supervisor: dr. W. van der Stam
Iris ten Have
Spectroscopy of the Catalytic Hydrogenation of CO and CO2
November 2023
Thesis supervisor: prof. B. M. Weckhuysen
Co-supervisor: dr. F. Meirer
Luca Carnevale
Microreactors for In Situ Single Catalyst Particle Characterization Using Advanced Imaging Techniques
November 2023
Thesis supervisor: prof. M. Odijk and prof. B. M. Weckhuysen
Co-supervisor: Dr. W. Olthuis and Dr. F. Meirer
Ahmed Ismail
The Chemical Dynamics of Water Splitting Oxides
Max Werny
Probing the Morphology, Composition and Temperature of Olefin Polymerization Catalyst Particles with Microscopy and Spectroscopy
Silvia Zanoni
Characterization of Supported Metallocene Catalysts for Ethylene Polymerization
September 2023
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Erik Maris
Mapping Porous Solid Catalysts with Fluoresecent Molecules and Nanoparticles
June 2023
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Co-supervisors: dr. F. Meirer and dr. F.T. Rabouw
Bas Terlingen
New Insights in the Working Principles of Europium-Based Methane Oxychlorination Catalysts
January 2023
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Co-supervisor: Dr. E. Hutter
Thomas van Swieten
The Design and Application of Luminescent Thermometers
January 2023
Thesis supervisors: Prof. A. Meijerink and Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Sophie Van Vreeswijk
Advanced Zeolite Characterisation Methods to Investigate the Methanol-to-Hydrocarbons Reaction
December 2022
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Nikolaos Nikolopoulos
Waste-derived zeolites and shaped catalysts for the methanol-to-hydrocarbons reaction
November 2022
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Xinwei Ye
Structure-Performance Relationships in the Selective Catalytic Reduction of Nitric Oxide with Ammonia over Copper-Based Zeolites
October 2022
Thesis supervisor: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen
Co-supervisors: Dr. F. Meirer and Dr. J.E. Schmidt
Roozbeh Valadian
Porous Catalyst Characterization Using X-ray Nano Tomography and Pore Network Modeling
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
Pieter Van der Avert
Catalytic Destruction of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons over Lanthanide Oxides
2003
Thesis supervisors: Prof. B.M. Weckhuysen and Prof R.A. Schoonheydt