Meet our current team
Guobin Miao, MSc
PhD researcher specialized in pulsed photothermal catalysis
Sarah Lander, MSc
PhD researcher specialized in pulsed photothermal catalysis
Cecilia Romeo, MSc
PhD researcher specialized in controlling nanoscale heat generation and photothermal microscopy
Madeline Finale, MSc
PhD researcher involved in our PolyPulse project, co-supervised with Dr. Charusheela Ramanan. She is specialized in making plastics recycling more selective using photochemistry.
Dr. Ermes Peci
Postdoctoral researcher specialized in photothermal microscopy using various methods, such as Raman scatter and phase-front imaging
Maël Kramer, MSc
PhD researcher, co-supervised with Dr. Boukje de Gooijer. Maël is specialized in modelling and optimization of nanophotonic resonators.
Dr. ir. Boukje de Gooijer
Senior lecturer within the UT-VU Mechanical Engineering bachelor program and research specialist in surrogate modelling and optimization strategies
Dimitri Sgouropoulos
BSc Mechanical engineering.
Thesis title: Heat dissipation simulations for a chemical reactor illuminated by a
femtosecond-pulsed laser (2025)
Alon Tal
BSc Mechanical engineering.
Thesis title: Lab automation of an ultrafast pulsed laser
Martijn Blotwijk
BSc Mechanical engineering.
Thesis title: Lab automation of a gas chromatograph
Yves Denekamp
BSc Mechanical engineering.
Thesis title: Design and validation of a transfer stage setup for deterministic manipulation of 2D materials (2026)
Elaina Galvin, MSc
PhD guest researcher from AMOLF specialized in pulsed photothermal catalysis and microkinetic modelling
Martin Slaman
Our resourceful research engineer who can make absolutely anything!
Past group members (since 2025)
Dr. Klito Petallidou
Klito is an Associate Research Scientist at the Cyprus Institute, who visited us in 2025-2026 for a total of three months to learn our approaches in photocatalysis.
Pan Li, MSc
Pan’s main supervisor and promotor is Andrea Baldi. She was a PhD researcher specialized in photothermal microscopy using Raman scattering. Pan defended her thesis in March 2026.
Daan Leeflang
MSc student specialized in pulsed photothermal catalysis for the CO oxidation reaction. Daan finished his thesis in December 2025
Jon Elustondo Gonzalez
BSc Mechanical engineering.
Thesis title: Heat dissipation simulations for a chemical reactor illuminated by a
femtosecond-pulsed laser (2025)
Past group members before 2025
- Amir Shah (BSc Physics) – Thermal imaging with Axio Observer 7 and Makatea wavefront camera (2024) & Humanitarian Demining: Comparing Diurnal Landmine Thermal Detection Simulations with Real Field Tests (2025)
- Theresa Bartschmid – PhD researcher from Paris Lodron University Salzburg, short term research exchange with funding from LaserLab Europe (2024)
- Janko Wiebenga (BSc Mechanical Engineering) – Design of a lab-scale photoreactor for depolymerisation of PP and PET with a near-infrared pulsed laser (2024)
- Lilian Schoone (BSc Mechanical Engineering) – Development of an experimental setup for light-driven plastics recycling (2024)
- Tijs Wiegman (dual degree BSc Physics and Astronomy and BSc Mathematics) – Optimizing the optical response of NP arrays using Bayesian Learning (2024)
- Katerina Makrykosta (MSc Chemistry) – Innovative strategies for stimulated dynamic heterogeneous catalysis (2024)
- Pieter Rebel (MSc Physics and Astronomy) – Pulsed photothermal heterogeneous catalysis (2024)
- Lars Nolden (BSc Mechanical Engineering) – Development of a genetic algorithm for maximizing the light induced heat generation of nano-plasmonic antennas (2023)
- Martijn Kievit (BSc Mechanical Engineering) – Optimization of light-induced heat generation in nanoparticles (2023)
- Gijs van Boxtel (MSc Chemistry) – Unraveling the Dynamics: A Review of Dynamic Catalysis Strategies and their impact on heterogeneous catalysis (2023)
- Daan de Jong (BSc Mechanical Engineering) – Conversion of a 3D-printer into an automatized nanoparticle dip-coater (2022)