Our people

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Research groups

Molecular and applied biotechnology
Luisa Bortesi, Associate Professor (PI)
Julia Jansing, Assistant Professor
Stefan Rasche, Researcher (Fraunhofer) 
Christian Schmitz, Researcher (BioMosae)
Lara Bitar, PhD
Peter Lijnen, Lab Technician
Organic chemistry of biobased building blocks
Romano Orrù, Professor (PI)
Jordy Saya, PostDoc
Prabhat Ranjan, PostDoc
Jay Hanssens, PhD
Daniel Verdoorn, PhD (University of Antwerp)
Minghui Wu, PhD (CSC)
Hans Smeets, Lab technician
Biobased polymers
Andrij Pich, Professor (PI)
Katrien Bernaerts, Associate Professor
Sonia Garcia Embid, PostDoc
Enzo Pichon, PhD
Harmen Spakman, PhD
Svetlana Stepanova, PhD
Sofiya Vynnytska, PhD
Jacek Walkowiak, Researcher (DWI)
Jian Liu, PhD (CSC)
Hongjuan Weng, PhD (CSC)
Fang Zhou, PhD (ChemStream)
Newton Thomassen, Lab technician
Polymer physics and technology
Jules Harings, Associate Professor (PI)
Vincent Reinartz, PhD
Cristina Palacios Mateo, PhD
Joshua Verstappen, PhD
Milo Gardeniers, PhD (Sabic)
Francesca Bertella, PhD
Roy Kneepkens, PhD (CHILL)
Roel Bröker, PhD (Zuyd Hogeschool)
Nils Leoné, Lab Technician
Polymer engineering
Gunnar Seide, Professor (PI)
Maike-Eliza Ostheller, PhD
Simon Schick, PhD
Naveen Balakrishnan, Researcher
Bhavidharan Kaliselvan, Researcher
Chrysanthi Oikonomidi, PhD
Monika Oleksy, PhD
Fariha Sehar, PhD
Matthias Kesting, (Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences), PhD
Stefan Siebert, PhD (External)
Biobased materials for medicine
Stefan Jockenhövel, Professor
Samaneh Ghazanfari, Associate Professor
Anne Coenen, PhD (Avans)
Achim Besen, Lab Technician
Sustainability of materials
Yvonne van der Meer, Professor (PI)
Ali Ghannadzadeh, Assistant Professor
Pranav Nakhate, PostDoc
Sajuta Patil, PostDoc
Svetlana Obydenkova, PostDoc
Carlos Andres Garcia Velasquez, PhD
Cris Garcia Saravia Ortiz De Montellano, PhD
Carolina Bettker Vasconcelos, PhD
Michelle Gian, PhD
Marco Serafini, Researcher
Felicitas Pellengahr, PhD (B4Plastics)

Support staff

General Support
Ermo Daniels, Managing Director
Marcelle Grandjean, Management Assistant
Mark van Gisteren, Financial Consultant
Katie Saralidze, Coordinator Education/ Teacher

 

Lab support

Nils Leoné, Lab Technician

Achim Besen, Lab Technician

Peter Lijnen, Lab Technician

Hans Smeets, Lab technician
Newton Thomassen, Lab technician