Matthias Vandichel
Group leader
Matthias obtained his PhD at Ghent University in 2012. He enjoyed postdoctoral periods in Ghent University (2013-2015), IRCELYON (2015-2016), Chalmers (2016-2018) and Aalto University (2018-2019). Since Oct 2019, he is active as a lecturer (assistant professor) at the University of Limerick.
His main research interests are: computational materials and catalysis research, porous materials and inorganic interfaces.
Sousa Javannikkhah
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Career-FIT PLUS Research Fellow
Sousa is developing methodologies to describe hormone delivery vesicles.
Ryan Lacdao Arevalo
Marie Skłodowska-Curie PROCESS COFUND Research Fellow
Ryan is developing multiscale modelling and high-throughput approaches to design novel nanoporous materials for methane activation and drug delivery systems.
Postdoctoral Researcher (01/03/2021 - 11/10/2021)
For HERMES, Ryan is developing methodologies to describe electrochemical reactions in/on metal-hydrides and other systems. His project is in collaboration with 6 other partners in Europe (H2020-FETproactive HERMES).
Venkata Surya Kumar Choutipalli
Postdoctoral Researcher (15/11/2021 - )
Surya is developing methodologies to study a variety of electrochemical reactions on metal-hydrides. The HERMES-project is in collaboration with 6 other partners in Europe (H2020-FETproactive HERMES).
Amin Koochaki
Researcher
Amin is developing methods to describe gas sorption and separation within flexible porous materials. This project is in collaboration with Prof. Zaworotko’s group and is supported by the SFI-centre AMBER.
Pedram Vousoughi
EPS-IRC PhD student
Pedram is developing methods to describe corrosion phenomena.
Raju Lipin
PhD student
Lipin is developing methodologies to describe electrochemical reactions on metal-hydrides and other systems. His project is in collaboration with 6 other partners in Europe (H2020-FETproactive HERMES).
Ciara O'Sullivan
PhD student
Ciara is developing multiscale modelling tools to design dendritic polymer-based platforms for theranostic applications, including but not limited to chemotherapeutic theranostics, biotherapeutic theranostics, phototherapeutic theranostics, and combined therapeutic theranostics.
Visiting Staff
Jiri Bednar
Visiting postdoctoral researcher, Postdoc MEYS research internship (01/02/2022-30/06/2022)
VSB-TU Ostrava
Jiri is modelling a nanoparticles’ aggregation at the sublimation interface of a rapidly frozen dispersion. The main research interests are preparation and characterization of nanostructured materials and their incorporation into filtration membranes and developing new means of material testing.