Senior Scientist @ Total Research & Technology Feluy, Total Refining & Chemicals, Belgium.
Joined Total in 2008 in the R&D department of Total New Energies in Paris, France, working on various topics including nanocatalysis, carbon dioxide utilisation and process intensification. Since 2013 located at Total's Catalysis Research Centre in Belgium. New focus of interest includes the application of life cycle-cost analysis for guiding research programs and goals, and the use of design of experiments in catalysis research.
PhD in computational chemistry by the University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. Recipient of the VENI grant by The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, worked at the Technical University of Eindhoven for six years in the group of Prof Hans Niemantsverdriet, working in both fundamental and applied projects. Principal investigator in several industrial collaborations with Sasol, Akzo Nobel and Philips.
Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions reach >30 gigaton per year. CO2 is known to be a greenhouse gas and partly responsible for global climate change. Society, enterprises, governmental and non-governmental institutions are sensible to this fact and are working to find remediation to the global chal-lenge of reducing CO2 emissions.
Senior Scientist @ Total Research & Technology Feluy, Total Refining & Chemicals, Belgium.