Eindhoven Area
Overview The Eindhoven Institute for Renewable Energy Systems (EIRES) is TU/e’s answer to the broad, multidisciplinary question that is the energy transition. EIRES facilitates the collaborative development and swift deployment of new technologies and devices by bringing together TU/e researchers working on materials, systems, and processes for energy storage and conversion. Our approach is based around societal impact: working on fundamental challenges underlying the development of systems with the potential for rapid upscaling and market penetration. That is why we promote academic research driven by societal challenges, with close partnerships between academia and the high-tech manufacturing industry in the region. Website http://tue.nl/eires
Part-time appointment as full professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology
DIFFER is the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research. Its mission is to perform and support science for future energy - basic research to enable the transition to a worldwide, fully sustainable energy infrastructure. To that end, the institute conducts leading fundamental research in the fields of fusion and solar fuels. DIFFER's close partnership with academia and industry ensures that the institute can focus scientific efforts on realistic, use-inspired challenges. Public-private collaborations with industrial partners allow the institute to swiftly develop fundamental insights to the application phase. The solar fuels research tackles the challenge of integrating intermittent sustainable energy sources into the infrastructure by developing efficient conversion and storage of sustainable energy into high energy density, CO2-neutral fuels and other chemical feedstock. Routes explored are using sustainable electricity to recycle atmospheric CO2 and water into fuels with no net CO2 exhaust, or direct use of solar energy in photo-electrochemical fuel/feedstock production. DIFFER is closely involved in two of fusion's main research challenges: controlling instabilities at the heart of the fusion plasma, and developing wall materials that can stand up to the punishing conditions at the plasma-wall interface. The institute's main facility Magnum-PSI is worldwide unique in its capability to expose wall materials to the plasma conditions expected in ITER and the fusion reactors beyond it. DIFFER aims to position itself as the natural national point of contact on fundamental energy research. The goal is to strengthen the field as a whole, because an active and well-connected research community is of vital importance to accelerate technology innovation in the energy sector. Therefore, DIFFER brings together top researchers and companies in dedicated multidisciplinary workshops, and represents Dutch basic energy research in (inter)national networks and consortia.
I am the leader of the Cluster Processing technologies of functional materials The main challenge in this technology theme is to obtain greater fundamental insight and understanding of processing and assembling of functional materials at the micro, meso and nano length scales in order to guarantee the desired level of reliability in the resulting products. Functional materials are made of the optimum combination of materials, chosen for a specifically requested functionality, and can be made up of any combination of chemical elements from the periodic table. Some examples are phase-change materials, new and high-performance materials, materials integrated into micro-electronics and MEMS, lab-on-a-chip developments, materials with actuating and sensing functions, and self-healing and self-cleaning materials. www.m2i.nl
Our mission is to advance plasma and materials science & technology through in-depth understanding The group PMP focuses on the science and technology of plasma and materials processing, a research area within applied physics which is in essence multidisciplinary and encompasses the research fields plasma science, surface science, and materials science. The scientific objective of the group is to obtain “atomic” level understanding of the interaction of plasmas with materials. The research area of PMP involves therefore experimental investigations of the physics of the plasma medium, the interaction of plasma species with material surfaces, as well as the application of plasmas and related (non-plasma) technologies to the fabrication or modification of materials for a wide range of applications. The interaction of plasmas with materials plays a key role in many fields in science and technology and, consequently, the research activities of PMP range from plasma-surface studies in fusion reactors to the development of processes for the production of devices in the field of nanoelectronics and renewable energy technologies. The research of the group can be characterized as “application-oriented” and is directly relevant for many current developments within society and industry. The latter is illustrated by the many close industrial collaborations and a significant number of valorization successes in the recent past. Moreover, the group PMP is unique in its approach to study plasma and surface processes in situ and in real time during processing by employing a large set of existing and newly-developed plasma and surface diagnostics. http://www.phys.tue.nl/pmp/
Assistant professor in the group of Prof. Daniel Schram. Main research subjects: Science and Technology of Plasma Etching and Deposition and Plasma sources