Team

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

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