Staff
Professors
prof. dr. ir. Steven De Meester
Research areas: Sustainable design of (bio)chemical process chains
Tel: +32 (0) 56 24 12 36
Postdocs
dr. Elisabetta Carrieri
Research topic: TiO2 recovery from plastics
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93
dr. Dave Manhaeghe
Research areas: Efficient media management for (chemical) washing of plastics
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 94
dr. Pieter Nachtergaele
also involved at STEN
Research areas: Renewable resources in the chemical industry and sustainable packaging and end-of-life treatment of plastic packaging
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 18
dr. Sibel Ügdüler
Research topic: Pre-treatment of plastic waste
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93
dr. Tobias De Somer
Research topic: Development and optimization of processes for washing of plastics
Purification of fluegas from the gasification of wind turbine blades
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 94
dr. Rita Kol
Research topic: Cleaning of plastic waste by solvent-based technologies
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93
dr. Wang Li
Research topic: Bioplastic sorting and recycling model, digital twin and EPR scheme
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93
dr. Huan Gao
Research areas: the enzymatic degradation of adhesives in plastic packaging.
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93
Assistants
Joël Hogie
Senior lecturer for process engineering
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93
Nils Vermeeren
Research topic: Optimising the advanced mechincal recycling on polyolefins.
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93
Ph.D. students
Srija Balachandran 
Research topic: Development and optimisation of downstream processes for carboxylic acids
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 94
Emelin Yhoany Luna Barrios
Research topic: Development of processes for chemical recycling of PET and PC
Tel: +34 61 77 77 37 5
Isabela Felizea Amistad Daras
Research topic: Development of a sustainable biosolvent-based recycling technology towards increasing the quality and purity of recyclates
tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93
Shreyash Gujar
Research topic: Solvent assisted recycling of Polymers
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 94
Michiel Van Melkebeke
Research topic: Pre-treatment of plastic waste towards chemical recycling
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93
Thien Nguyen
Research topic: Purification of pyrolysis oil from plastic waste
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 94
Alexandra Schmuck
Research Topic: Analysis of quantity and quality of available feedstock for chemical recycling of plastic waste
Tel: +32 (0) 456 65 14 49
Myrika Stefanidou
Research Topic: Recovery of brominated additives from polymer waste.
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93
Amin Tehrani
Research topic: Downstream Processing of Depolymerization Products for Oxygenated Polymers
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93
Brecht Tomme
also involved at CTSE (MaTCh)
Research topic: Recycling of acrylic textiles (REACT)Tel:
Tel: +32 (0)493 53 07 19
Daniël Withoeck
also involved at LCT
Research topic: Modelling the Chemical Recycling process of Mixed Plastic Waste: from sorting to cracking
Tel: +32 9 331 17 56
Scientific staff
Jordy Doolaege
Research topic: modelling of polymer dissolution and diffusion phenomena in mechanical recycling
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 94
Tine Van Laere
Scientific support for industry projects
Administrative & technical Staff
Elina Selmurzaeva
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93
Jung Suk Coene
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93
Lies Harinck
also involved at LIWET
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93
Pieter Knockaert
also involved at LIWET
Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93
Isabel Laperre
Tel: +32 (0) 56 24 12 17