Active projects

HARMOny

Harvesting Milk Fat Globules from Oilseeds. For developing coarse-grained molecular models to study and develop plant-based dairy alternatives. NWO/Open Technology Program AES. With WUR, Botaneco, and Danone. co-PI

333,000 Euros (total budget: 1,045,000 Euros) · 2025 – ongoing

Revolutionizing Hydrogen Liquefaction using Carbon Nanotubes

Experiments and simulations to investigate if hydrogen liquefaction can be achieved at temperatures way higher than usual (ca. 20 K) by using nanoporous media. NWO Open Competition Domain Science XS. PI

50,000 Euros · 2025 – ongoing

HyPRO

Green Hydrogen production, NWO/Groenvermogen NL, Work Package 1. 58 parties project to develop the next generation of green and low-carbon hydrogen technologies focusing on Alkaline and PEM Water Electrolysis, High-Temperature Solid Oxide and Protonic Ceramic Electrolysers, and Anion Exchange Membranes. PI

550,000 Euros (total budget: 45,000,000 Euros) · 2025 – ongoing

HyTROS

Hydrogen Transport, Offshore and Storage, NWO/Groenvermogen NL, Work Package 2. 51 parties (public institutes and private companies) work together towards developing robust solutions for large-scale storage and transport of hydrogen. co-PI

600,000 Euros (total budget: 18,000,000 Euros) · 2024 – ongoing

SYROP

Intelligent design of sustainable Sugar(cYclodextrin) - based adsorbents for the Removal of PFAS and other Organic microPollutants from water, NWO/Open Technology Program AES. 3 industrial partners. PI

1,026,000 Euros · 2023 – ongoing


Past projects

Molecular simulation of vapor liquid equilibria curves of acid-gas absorption in liquids

Private research agreement with TOTALEnergies (w/ MINES ParisTech, France). co-PI

140,000 Euros + 1 PhD student · 2020 – 2024

Nano-porous materials for efficient hydrogen storage

State-of-the-art multi-scale simulations and artificial intelligence to identify nano-porous materials for efficient hydrogen storage, ME Cohesion grant (with Materials Engineering Dept.). PI

200,000 Euros · 2020 – 2023

Bio-cel

Integrated biogenic CO2 capture with electrochemical conversion to oxalic acid, RVO, Model projectplan energie en industrie 2019. Join industry projects (JIP). Industrial partners: DMT Environmental Technology, TNO, Mestverwerking Fryslan BV, Tielo-Tech B.V. PI

188,000 Euros (total budget: 468,000 Euros) · 2020 – 2023

Hy & Dry

High pressure, high purity, dry hydrogen, RVO, Model projectplan Waterstof tender 2019. Programmalijn: Toepassing van waterstof. Industrial partners: HyET Hydrogen, Tielo-Tech B.V. co-PI

251,000 Euros (total budget: 500,000 Euros) · 2019 – 2022

Hydrogen embrittlement modelling

Towards light and eco-friendly steels: Multi-scale modelling of hydrogen embrittlement, ME Cohesion grant (with Materials Engineering and Maritime Technology Depts.). co-PI

120,000 Euros · 2019 – 2021

Electrochemical conversion of CO2

Multi-scale approach for the electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide to value-added product, CATO – TKI (CCUS-TKI-toeslag-2013). Industrial partner: Coval Energy. co-PI

50,000 Euros (total budget: 100,000 Euros) · 2017 – 2019

Molecular simulation of porous materials

Molecular simulation of porous materials and their building blocks, Process & Energy startup grant. PI

250,000 Euros · 2017 – 2022

Cyclodextrin-based polymers on GPUs

Molecular simulation of cyclodextrin-based polymers on GPUs, NVIDIA GPU Grant Program

NVIDIA TITAN V GPU (3,500 Euros)

Research excellence travel grant

TAMUQ Advanced Scientific Computing (TASC)

2,000 Euros

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