Principal Investigator
Dr. Alexandru Vlad
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Division of Molecular Chemistry, Materials and Catalysis
Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences
Université catholique de Louvain
- PhD Applied Sciences, 2009, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- MSc/BSc degree Polymer Science – Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti, Romania
Chief Laboratory Manager
Fabio Lucaccioni
1st Chief Specialised Agent
Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences
Associate Member Royal Society of Chemistry
Project Manager
Sadia Benyoub
Project Manager,
Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Petru Apostol
Ph.D. Physical Chemistry of Condensed Matter
University of Bordeaux, France, 2016
Organic and coordination chemistry, Conductive MOFs and Organic batteries
Dr. Shubhadeep Pal
Ph.D. Physics
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, India, 2020
Electrolytes for batteries, Inorganic batteries, Li-ion battery
Dr. Marion Maffre
Ph.D. Chemistry and Physicochemistry of Materials
University of Quebec in Montreal and University of Montpellier, 2020
Aqueous hybrid positive electrode materials for energy storage
Dr. Sepideh Behboudikhiavi
Ph.D. Applied chemistry/electrochemistry
Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran, 2018.
Inorganic cathode materials of Li-ion battery, Electrodeposition of energy storage materials
Dr. Xiaodong Lin
Ph.D. Energy chemistry
Xiamen University, China, 2020
Electrolytes for batteries, Organic/Inorganic batteries, Li-ion battery
Dr. Vasudeva Rao Bakuru
Ph.D. Chemistry, Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research, India, 2020.
MOFs and organic materials for energy storage
Dr. Gulshan Kumar
Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, 2018.
Electroactive MOFs and Coordination Polymers
Dr Darsi Rambabu
Ph.D. Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi, India, 2017
Redox active metal-organic frameworks: conductivity and energy storage
Dr. Binson Babu
Ph.D. Physics Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, India, 2019.
Electrode materials and electrolytes for metal-ion (Li/Na/K) batteries, supercapacitors, and hybrid-ion capacitors.
Andrii Kachmar
Ph.D. Physics and Chemistry of Surface
Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpatian National University, Ukraine, 2020
PhD Students
Hewei Xu
MSc Degree – Materials Science and Engineering
Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), 2018
Concentrated electrolytes and solid electrolytes for Lithium/Sodium batteries
Xiaolong Guo
MSc Degree – Materials Science and Engineering
Hainan University, China, 2019
Organic batteries, organic/metal-organic electrode materials for energy storage
Joel Omale
M.Sc. Degree – Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Université Catholique de Louvain, 2018
Materials Science and Engineering, Grenoble Institute of Technology, 2017
3D architectures for microscale energy storage devices, inorganic solid electrolytes for lithium batteries
Mengyuan Du
MSc Degree – Materials Science and Engineering
Hainan University, China, 2019
Inorganic electrode materials
Da Tie
MSc Degree – Chemical Engineering and Technology
Yanshan University, 2019
Inorganic electrode materials
Géraldine Chanteux
M.Sc. Degree – Chemical Science
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), 2020
Conducting MOFs for Energy Applications
Tom Goossens
M.Sc. Degree – Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), 2020
Organic batteries, organic/metal-organic electrode materials for energy storage
Robert Markowski
M.Sc. Degree – Université Catholique de Louvain, 2022
High voltage organic cathodes for divalent cation storage
Jérôme Bailly
M.Sc. Degree – Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2022.
Electrolyte and aqueous based electrode material for Li-ion batteries
Master Students
Raphaël Delogne
Bachelor in Chemical Science, Université catholique de Louvain
Coordination polymers for multivament cation storage
Xavier Vaneberck
Bachelor in Chemical Science, Université catholique de Louvain
Mixed Ion-Electron Conductors
Welcoming motivated young students to be successful in science
Welcoming motivated young students to be successful in science
Visitors
Welcoming motivated young students to be successful in science
Alumni
| Yan Zhang | Visiting Ph.D. student | 2020-2022 | Postdoc, Nankai University |
| Xiaozhe Zhang | Ph.D. student | 2018-2022 | Senior Researcher, Envision AESC, Vhina |
| Alaeddine Lakraychi | Postdoc | 2018-2021 | Postdoc, University of Houston |
| Rico Rupp | Ph.D. student | 2016-2020 | Researcher, IMEC, Belgium |
| Qi Zhu | Ph.D. student | 2016-2020 | Junior Research Assistant, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, China |
| Louis Sieuw | Ph.D. student | 2015-2020 | Postdoc, EMPA, Switzerland |
| Deepak Gupta | Postdoc | 2019-2022 | Looking for new opportunities |
| Jiande Wang | Ph.D. student | 2016-2021 | Postdoc, MIT, USA |
| Xuelian Liu | Ph.D. student | 2016-2021 | Postdoc, Tufts University, USA |
Group Pictures
Winter 2019
Winter 2019
Autumn 2021