April 2024

My team and I were recently interviewed by Daniël Linzel from C2W International - the official magazine of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV), Daniël Linzel. In this article, we talk about our recent work on the electrochemical synthesis of alanine. The electrification of organic synthesis methods is a key step in the green transition.

March 2024

Happy to contribute to this article on the future of electrolysis written by Jim Heirbaut. It was a great opportunity to share some of our views on alkaline electrolysis and bubbles with a wider audience. 

February 2024

A great end to a great journey. It was a nice opportunity to meet the esteemed committee members and engage in a fruitful discussion during the defense. I look forward to the next steps in my academic journey. 

It has been a true pleasure working with my supervisors David Fernandez Rivas and Han Gardeniers who have offered timely and invaluable counsel over the years. Special thanks to the committee members for their valuable time, and to our many collaborators from whom I've learned a great deal. Thanks also to all my colleagues from our group for the many discussions - personal and professional - which have added immense value to my PhD journey. 

The thesis is available online here.

January 2024

It was a opportunity to meet other young researchers working on physics of bubbles at the NWO Physics conference. I presented our latest results on bubble evolution from patterened hydrophobic arrays. 

In addition to the science, my supervisor David and I entertained the crowd with some Cuban music!

October 2023

It was a pleasure meeting fellow electrochemists at the ECS conference in Gothenburg. The meeting was a great platform to share recent results from our single bubble electrolysis study. 

June 2023

We have been awarded the Take-off Phase 1 grant by the NWO. Backed by our academic studies at the University of Twente, we aim to develop next-generation gas evolving electrodes for water electrolysis. This grant will allow us to conduct a feasibility study, and better position our innovation in the context of the broader market.

The grant application process was a rewarding experience. It was great to take a break from our usual academic presentations and deliver a commercial pitch to an expert panel. Pictured here are David and I right after the pitch at NWO.

November 2022

I had the privilege of spending a few weeks at the Thermal and Fluids Engineering department of the University of Carlos III in Madrid. Vanesa and I studied strategies to mitigate losses due to hydrogen evolution in aqueous redox flow batteries. 

UC3M was a great place to start a completely new direction of research - a task made much easier thanks to the expertise of Vanesa and Ange. Special thanks to Prof. Marcos Vera Coello for hosting me at the group.