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A great day in September
Kunal Mali
Staff Scientist
My research focuses on fundamental aspects of supramolecular self-assembly on solid surfaces and its application towards functionalization of two-dimensional materials. I am also interested in on-surface covalent chemistry.
V. Ganga Mallaiah
Postdoc
I obtained Ph.D. at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre under the supervision of Dr. Bhaskar Dutt. I am a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow and I am studying the impact of room temperature ionic liquids on the electronic properties of graphene using SPM and Raman techniques. I am also interested in 2D crystal engineering and surface-confined stimulus-responsive systems.
Robby Reynaerts
Postdoc
Hi, I investigate multicomponent self-assembly on surfaces.
Nico Arisnabarreta
Postdoc
Hi, I'm a new postdoc in the De Feyter group, coming from Argentina. Among other things, I will investigate the effect of electric fields on self-assembly and reactivity.
Shammi Rana
Postdoc
I investigate self-assembly processes on surfaces in relation to electrocatalysis
Vipin Mishra
Postdoc
I investigate the formation mechanisms of 2D covalent organic frameworks on surfaces
Adrian Urban
Postdoc
Hi there! My research deals with the chiral induced spin selectivity effect.
Jack Davies
Postdoc
I investigate the formation of metal-organic-frameworks on solids
Jiamin Sun
Postdoc
I work on the synthesis of COFs and their catalytic properties
Guangyuan Feng
Postdoc
Hi, I joined the De Feyter group to explore properties of COFs
Neeraj Bangruwa
Postdoc
I have an interest in chirality...Wait and see...
Catarina Lourenco Delfino
Doctoral Student
My research is about nanostructured functionalization of graphite and graphene, and 2D self-assembled molecular networks
Lihua Yu
Doctoral Student
I am a CSC PhD student. I will work on nanostructuring surfaces and the impact on supramolecular self-assembly
Antonino Cucinotta
Doctoral Student
I investigate the formation of metal organic frameworks on surfaces
Anastasia Bazylevska
Doctoral Student
Hi, I work on the covalent functionalization of 2D materials
Tianze Hu
Doctoral Student
Hi, I'm a CSC student and will investigate 2D molecular self-assembly dynamical processes on surfaces
Brecht Koek
Doctoral Student
I'm investigating on-surface synthesis
Sven Bernaerts
Doctoral Student
I'm doing research on functionalized graphite particles and catalysis
I'm a PhD student of the “CHISUB” project. CHISUB is an ambitious collaborative research project funded by FNRS-FWO under the Excellence of Science (EoS) program that spans from 2022 to 2025 and that puts together 6 research groups from Belgium, The Netherlands, and Austria. CHISUB features a multidisciplinary approach, towards crystallization mechanisms of molecules, which uses chiral symmetry breaking as local probe of ordering phenomena and as a tool for enantiomeric separation. I will do my research in the group of Prof. Yves Geerts at ULB where I will synthesize new compounds and in the De Feyter group where I will investigate chiral symmetry breaking phenomena at surfaces using scanning probe microscopy.
Andreu Mor Maldona
Doctoral Student
I work in the groups of Arnout Voet and Steven De Feyter as a PhD student. In the De Feyter group, I will investigate the on-surface self-assembly of designer proteins.
Michele Zanotti
Doctoral Student
I'm also a PhD student at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Brescia (Italy). I develop gas sensors using 2D materials.
Kobe Peeters
Doctoral Student
I'm a PhD student and I investigate the formation of chiral nanopatterned surfaces.
Jie Zhang
Doctoral Student
I'm interested in the growth of multilayered two-dimensional polymers
Cristina Nitu
Doctoral Student
Hi! I investigate molecular motors on surfaces. I'm also a PhD student of the group of Ben Feringa at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands
Huanjing Luo
Doctoral Student
I investigate new 2D polymers on surfaces.
Lekshimi Aravindan Geetha
Doctoral Student
Hi! I'm curious to unravel chiral inducation phenomena on surfaces
Dien Nguyen
Doctoral Student
Hi there! I'm a PhD student in the De Feyter group and I develop and investigate electrochromic materials.
Milda Tomy
Doctoral Student
Hi, my PhD is about COFs and catalysis
Leslie Rodriguez Gamboa
Visiting Researcher
Hi, I'm an internship student from UCLL
Giel Hendriks
MSc Student
I'm a master thesis student and I word on the sptatio-chemical characterization of thin films