Staff

Professors

prof. dr. ir. Steven De Meester

Research areas: Sustainable design of (bio)chemical process chains

Tel: +32 (0) 56 24 12 36

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Postdocs

dr. Sergei Gusev

also involved at LIWET

Research areas: Process control and advanced sensing technologies

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93

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dr. Dave Manhaeghe

Research areas: Efficient media management for (chemical) washing of plastics

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 94

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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

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dr. Sibel Ügdüler

Research topic: Pre-treatment of plastic waste

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93

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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

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Assistants

Joël Hogie

also involved at LIWET

Senior lecturer for process engineering

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93

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Ph.D. students

Srija Balachandran 

Research topic: Development and optimisation of downstream processes for carboxylic acids

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 94

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Emelin Yhoany Luna Barrios 

Research topic: Development of processes for chemical recycling of PET and PC

Tel: +34 61 77 77 37 5 

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Elisabetta Carrieri

Research topic: TiO₂ recovery from plastics

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93

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Shreyash Gujar

Research topic: Solvent assisted recycling of Polymers 

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 94

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Rita Kol

Research topic: Cleaning of plastic waste by solvent-based technologies

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93

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Michiel Van Melkebeke

Research topic: Pre-treatment of plastic waste towards chemical recycling

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93

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Thien Nguyen

Research topic: Purification of pyrolysis oil from plastic waste

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 94

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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

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Amin Tehrani

Research topic: Downstream Processing of Depolymerization Products for Oxygenated Polymers

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93

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Brecht Tomme

also involved at CTSE (MaTCh)

Research topic: Recycling of acrylic textiles (REACT)Tel:

Tel: +32 (0)493 53 07 19

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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

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Waheed Zeb

Research topic: Design of downstream processes for the isolation of precious chemicals from plastic waste pyrolysis oil

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 95

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Scientific staff

Noa collier

Research topic: Improving washing process of plastic waste within mechanical recycling, coupled with optimization of the water management in plastic recycling plants.

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93

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Jordy Doolaege

Research topic: modelling of polymer dissolution and diffusion phenomena in mechanical recycling

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 94

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Tine Van Laere

Scientific support for industry projects

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93

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Administrative & technical Staff

Elina Selmurzaeva

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93

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Jung Suk Coene

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93

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Lies Harinck

also involved at LIWET

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93

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Pieter Knockaert

also involved at LIWET

Tel: +32 (0) 56 32 21 93

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Isabel Laperre

Tel: +32 (0) 56 24 12 17

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