Research @ BW24

List below gives an overview of all BW24 professors with a brief description of research topic(s). Click on a name to see more detailed educational and research activities.

• Pascal Boeckx - Analysis and application of isotopes in bioscience, tropical terrestrial ecosystems, greenhouse gas emissions and sinks.
• Steven De Meester: Sustainable design of process chains, separation processes, downstream processing.
• Kristof Demeestere: (Ultra-)trace analysis of organic compounds in ecosystems, emerging organic micropollutants in the aquatic environment, advanced oxidation processes and water treatment.
• Jo Dewulf: Environmental and clean technology.
• Matthias D’hooghe: Organic and bioorganic chemistry, heterocyclic chemistry, synthesis of bioactive compounds.
• Gijs Du Laing: Analysis, chemistry and technology of trace elements in food and environment.
• Ann Dumoulin: Chemical analysis: water, environment, materials.
• Thomas Heugebaert.: Synthetic green chemistry: developing photo- and electrochemical conversions, renewable platform chemicals, and continuous flow microreactor solutions.
• Philippe Heynderickx: Kinetics, heterogeneous catalysis, parameter estimation, environmental, mass spectrometric analysis, experiment-model-based analysis; organic chemistry, process engineering, environmental chemistry.
• Sven Mangelinckx: Chemistry of non-proteinogenic amino acids, azaheterocycles and natural products; isolation, analysis, synthesis and modifcation of bioactive natural products.
• Erik Meers: Environmental chemistry & technology for resource recovery in the agro-food value chain.
• Frederik Ronsse: Thermochemical biomass conversion, biochar production, processing techniques.
• Diederik Rousseau: Natural water purification systems (algae ponds, reed lands, ...), water quality.
• Christian Stevens: Heterocyclic chemistry, aminophosphonate chemistry, micro-reactor technology, chemical modification of renewable sources.
• Filip Tack: Biogeochemistry of trace elements, environmental impact of heavy metals, pollution of soil and sludge, chemical analysis.
• Paul Van Der Meeren: Particle and interfacial technology.
• Stijn Van Hulle: Application of industrial water treatment (advanced) oxidation processes, LED H2O.
• Marjolein Vanoppen: Physico-chemical water treatment, membrane technology, sustainable (re)use and selective separation.
• Pieter Vermeir: Nanotechnology: detection and characterization, chemical analysis.
• Eveline Volcke: Biosystems control and design, environmental engineering, bioconversion processes.
• Christophe Walgraeve: Indoor and outdoor air quality, chemical odor analysis, chemical (Ultra-)trace analysis of organic compounds,  environmental chemistry, environmental technology: design and performance testing of air treatment technologies.
  
• Di Wu: Waste(water) Treatment and Microbial Reuse Technology.