Our people
Management
Romano Orrù
Scientific Director
Ermo Daniels
Managing Director
Yvonne van der Meer
Scientific Vice-Director Academic Affairs
Andrij Pich
Scientific Vice-Director International Affairs
Research groups
| Molecular and Applied Biotechnology |
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| Luisa Bortesi, Associate Professor (PI) |
| Katie Saralidze, Coordinator Education/Teacher |
| Julia Jansing, Assistant Professor |
| Lara Bitar, PhD (External) |
| Christian Schmitz, Researcher (BioMosae) |
| Stefan Rasche, Researcher (Fraunhofer) |
| Biobased Organic Chemistry |
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| Romano Orrù, Professor (PI) |
| Jordy Saya, Assistant Professor |
| Jay Hanssens, PostDoc |
| Diego Meneses Sanchez, PhD |
| Mark Lambers, PhD |
| Felix Boerman, PhD |
| Adrien Aranda, PhD |
| Minghui Wu, PhD (CSC) |
| Sustainable Polymer Synthesis |
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| Katrien Bernaerts, Professor (PI) |
| Tankut Türel, PostDoc |
| Jiajun Wu, PostDoc |
| Huixing Cao, PostDoc |
| Yurii Husiev, PostDoc |
| Beatriz Chicharo, PostDoc |
| Keven Walter, PostDoc |
| Daan de Vetten, PhD |
| Vedant Menkudale, PhD |
| Sofiya Vynnytska, PhD (external) |
| Harmen Spakman, PhD |
| Gabriel Dominques Goncalves, PhD |
| Davide Illari, PhD |
| Jeroen Hendriks, PhD |
| Edoardo Frusta, PhD |
| Ramino Peters, PhD |
| Lisa Cuypers, PhD (Zuyd Hogeschool) |
| Fang Zhou, PhD (ChemStream) |
| Chantal Elo, PhD |
| Charlotte Vandeput, PhD |
| Biobased Polymers and Materials |
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| Andrij Pich, Professor (PI) |
| Samaneh Ghazanfari, Associate Professor |
| Zarja Medved, PhD (Wetsus) |
| Macromolecular Physics and Technology |
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| Jules Harings, Professor (PI) |
| Maryam Safari, Sr PostDoc |
| Cristina Palacios Mateo, PostDoc |
| Livia Loiola, PostDoc |
| Vincent Reinartz, PhD (external) |
| Joshua Verstappen, PhD |
| Francesca Bertella, PhD (external) |
| Filomena Cocco, PhD |
| Roel Bröker, PhD (Zuyd Hogeschool) |
| Roy Kneepkens, PhD (CHILL) |
| Milo Gardeniers, PhD (External) |
| Anna Tietjen, PhD |
| Polymer engineering |
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| Gunnar Seide, Professor (PI) |
| Konrad Beukenberg, PhD |
| Naveen Balakrishnan, Researcher (AMIBM e.V.) |
| Chrysanthi Oikonomidi, PhD |
| Monika Oleksy, PhD (RWTH) |
| Fariha Sehar, PhD (RWTH) |
| Matthias Kesting, PhD (Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences) |
| Sustainability of Chemicals and Materials |
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| Yvonne van der Meer, Professor (PI) |
| Ali Ghannadzadeh, Assistant Professor |
| Pranav Nakhate, Assistant Professor |
| Svetlana Obydenkova, PostDoc |
| Marivi Belioka, PostDoc |
| Cris Garcia Saravia Ortiz De Montellano, PostDoc |
| Shweta Singh, PostDoc |
| Manoj Kumar Nallapaneni, PostDoc |
| Alonso Albalate Ramirez, PostDoc |
| Carolina Bettker Vasconcelos, PhD |
| Xinzhi Zhong, PhD |
| Michelle Gian, PhD |
| Rebekka Brandwijk, PhD |
| Andi Naufaldi, PhD |
| Ruud Bongers, PhD (Zuyd Hogeschool) |
Support staff
| General Support |
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| Ermo Daniels, Managing Director |
| Marcelle Grandjean, Management Assistant |
| Debbie Engelen, Financial Controller |
| Mark van Gisteren, Financial Administration |
| Lab support |
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| Jamie Trindell, Coordinator / Lab Technician |
| Achim Besen, Lab Technician |
| Peter Lijnen, Lab Technician |
| Newton Thomassen, Lab technician |