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Postdoctoral positions

Currently, we have no open positions.  However, we are always looking for motivated and excellent candidates to apply for external funding such as Marie Sklodowska Curie postdoctoral fellowship, FWO senior/junior postdoctoral fellowship, etc. If you are interested, please contact Prof. Vandeginste with your CV and list of publications to discuss the potential project.

We invite outstanding candidates who would like to apply for a Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship with us, on the following topics:

• Bio-based smart coatings for better energy efficiency

• CO2 mineralization as efficient carbon capture, utilization and storage method

• Alternatives to lithium-ion for flexible solid-state battery technology

• Development of robust, low-cost piezoelectric energy harvesters

• Development of robust, low-cost optoelectric energy harvesters

• New materials for efficient removal of organic micropollutants from water

PhD positions

We are always looking for motivated and excellent candidates to apply for external funding such as FWO doctoral fellowship, China Scholarship Council (CSC)  scholarship and etc. If you are interested, please contact Prof. Vandeginste with your CV and a letter of motivation to discuss the potential project. 

If you are a PhD researcher at another university and interested in a research visit to our group, then have a look at the interesting  KU Leuven Mobility fellowships and contact Prof. Vandeginste with your CV and a letter of motivation to discuss the potential project.

Master students/Internship 

If you are interested to conduct your Master thesis project or a research internship in our group, please contact Prof. Vandeginste with your CV. 

We have currently the following Master projects available:

• Self-cleaning thermochromic coatings for improved thermoregulation in buildings

• Design of a test rig for measuring thermal resistance and reflectivity for new building materials

• Deformation behaviour of 3D printed auxetic materials and structures

• Dye and heavy metal adsorption properties of bio-inspired synthesized hierarchical CaCO3

• CO2 absorption and mineralization to form magnesium carbonates using a gas bubbling reactor

• Improved lithium carbonate formation using desalination brine via CO2 mineralization

• Tuning water affinity of polymeric membranes using bio-inspired mineralized CaCO3

• Mussle shell waste utilization in polymeric membranes for water purification

• Development of hierarchically structured carbon-based adsorbent for CO2 capture

• Ordered meso-microporous hierarchically structured carbons from biobased building blocks using soft-templating strategies

• Synthesis and electrochemical performance investigation of metal oxide coated MnO2 cathodes in zinc-ion batteries

• Metal ion intercalated MnO2 cathodes with fast ion diffusion and high stability for zinc-ion batteries

• Investigation of organic additives in electrolyte for highly stable zinc anode in zinc-in batteries

• Lithium extraction from seawater through electrochemical process

interfacial engineering Research (iR) group