Group leader

Yuanzheng is Professor at Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the leader of the functional amorphous materials group. He founded glass research field at Aalborg University in 1998, and established the Laboratory for Disordered Materials in 2003. 

He is an elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the European Ceramic Society, the Society of Glass Technology (UK), the International Association of Advanced Materials, and an elected Member of the Danish Academy of Natural Science. He is a council member of the International Commission on Glass (ICG) and the founding chair of the ICG Technical Committee for Glass Fibers. He is a board member of Danish Ceramic Society. He is an Editor of European Journal of Glass Science and Technology and an editorial board member of Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. He has authored/co-authored over 380 papers in the peer-refereed journals including Nature, Science, Nat. Mater. etc. He has delivered 129 invited talks at international conferences. 

Yuanzheng Yue
E-mail: yy@bio.aau.dk

Phone: +45 30532430

Adjunct associate professor

Rasmus is an adjunct associate professor of Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University. He received his PhD degree at the above department in 2015 and then continued to work as a postdoctoral fellow till 2020 at the same department. His primary position is R&D Specialist at Skamol A/S, Denmark. His research focuses on the inorganic insulation materials including glass foams, calcium silicate board and vermiculite board. 

Rasmus Rosenlund Pedersen

Adjunct associate professor

 rp@bio.aau.dk

Current members

Martin obtained his Ph.D. degree at Aalborg University on on April 5, 2019. Afterwards he worked as research assistant and postdoctoral fellow, respectively. He became an Assistant professor on January 1, 2023. His Ph.D. project focused on development of high-performance glass foams, while his postdoc projects deal with membrane science. He is involved in various teaching activities.

Martin Bonderup Østergaard
Assistant Professor (01. 2023-02. 2025)
mbo@bio.aau.dk   

Zhencai obtained his Ph.D. degree at Aalborg University on May 12, 2022 and became a postdoctoral fellow on August 1, 2022. His Ph.D. project focused on glass phase separation, crystallization behavior and optical properties of oxyfluoride glasses and glass-ceramics and also developed functional glasses for photonic devices. His Postdoc project deals with purification of quartz.

Zhencai Li
Postdoc (08. 2022-07. 2023)
zhli@bio.aau.dk

Xinxin obtained a M.Sc. degree in Material Engineering from Beijing University of Technology (China) in 2020. In November 2020, she started a three-year Ph.D. study funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC). She is now work on ceramic membranes for water desalination. 

Xinxin Chen
PhD student (11. 2020-10. 2023)
xinxinc@bio.aau.dk

Peter is a Ph.D. student studying, quantifying and improving the high-temperature stability of stone wool.

Peter Grouleff Jensen
Ph.D. student (08. 2021-07. 2024)
petergj@bio.aau.dk

Wessel obtained his M.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from Aalborg University in 2021. His research focuses on understanding of formation mechanism and functionalities of Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) glasses. 

Wessel Martinus Wilhemus Winters
PhD student (10. 2021-9. 2024)
wmww@bio.aau.dk

Tianzhao obtained his M.Sc. degree in Material Engineering from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2021. He focuses on studying MOF glasses.

Tianzhao  Xu
PhD student (11. 2022-11. 2025)
staaga19@student.aau.dk

Pengwei obtained his M.Sc. degree in Material Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China in 2019. He focuses on the regeneration of the electrode materials from spent Li-ion batteries.

Pengwei Li
Guest PhD student (11. 2022-10. 2024)
staaga19@student.aau.dk

Laura started her M.Sc. study in Chemical Engineering from Aalborg University on September 1, 2022. Her M.Sc. project deals with high temperature stability of stone wool fibers.

 Laura Skovby Rasmussen
M.Sc. student  (09. 2022-06. 2024)
lsra18@student.aau.dk 

Mathias started her M.Sc. study in Chemical Engineering from Aalborg University on September 1, 2022. His M.Sc. project deals with recycling wind turbine blade waste into clay bricks .

Mathias Rengnér Fischer  
M.Sc. student (09. 2022-06. 2024)
mfisch19@student.aau.dk 

Frederik started his M.Sc. study in Chemical Engineering from Aalborg University on September 1, 2022. His M.Sc. project deals with understanding of physical relaxation in MOF glasses.

Frederik Bols Thomsen
M.Sc. student (09. 2022-01. 2024)
fthoms18@student.aau.dk

Martin started his M.Sc. study in Chemical Engineering from Aalborg University on September 1, 2022. His M.Sc. project deals with recovering metals from spent lithium-ion batteries for regeneration into new high-performance batteries.

Martin Møller
M.Sc. student (09. 2022-06. 2024)
mmalle19@student.aau.dk 

Andreas started his M.Sc. study in Chemical Engineering from Aalborg University on September 1, 2022. His M.Sc. project deals with photocatalysis of perovskite and is supervised by Martin Østergaard.

Andreas Kruse Pedersen
M.Sc. student (09. 2022-06. 2024)
akpe19@student.aau.dk 

Former group members

Velux visiting professor

Jianrong Qiu, Honorary Doctor of Aalborg University, Professor of Zhejiang University (2013)

Senior researchers

Ralf Keding, Assistant Professor (2006-2010)

Lina Hu, Postdoc (2007-2008)

Min Ya, Postdoc (2007)

Vittorio Boffa, Assistant Professor (2010-2013)

Yanfei Zhang, Postdoc (2011-2012)

Jakob König, Postdoc (2012-2014)

Katja König, Postdoc (2012-2014)

Qiuju Zheng, Postdoc (2015-2016)

Rasmus Rosenlund Petersen, Postdoc (2015-2018)

Ang Qiao, Postdoc (2018-2020)

Rasmus Rosenlund Petersen, Industrial Postdoc (2018-2020)

Visiting scholars

Ying Tian (2015)

Changjiu Li (2016)

Shujiang Liu (2016-2017)

Yuebo Hu (2016-2017)

Wanmin Liu (2018)


Ph.D. students


M.Sc. students