Our international team of researchers is currently composed of the following members:
- Prof. Yaroslav Filinchuk
- Xiao Li, PhD student and CSC scholarship owner (2017 – present)
- Véronique Louppe, PhD student and teaching assistant (2017 – present)
- Timothy Steenhaut, PhD student and FRIA (FNRS) scholarship owner, copromotion with prof. Sophie Hermans (2017 – present)
- Ting Zhang, PhD student and CSC scholarship owner, copromotion with prof. Michel Devillers (2018 – present)
- Jian Wang, PhD student and CSC scholarship owner (2018 – present)
- Igor Golub, Postdoc (ARC funding) (2019 – present)
Administrative and technical staff:
- Céline Brochier, secretary
- Koen Robeyns, XRD research logistician (ASM platform)
- François Billard and Jean-François Statsyns, Technicians
- Jean-Charles Godefroid, electromechanician
Former lab members:
Post-docs
- Voraksmy Ban (2012 – 2015)
- Nikolay Tumanov (2012 – 2016)
- Gleb Veryasov (2017)
- Damir Safin (2016 – 2017)
- Maria Babashkina (2016 – 2017)
PhD students
- Fabrice Morelle, Thesis: “Hybrid hydridic frameworks by the combination of complex hydrides and nitrogenbased organic ligands”, 2017, Thesis funded by a FRIA fellowship (FNRS)
- Iurii Dovgaliuk, copromotion with prof. Michel Devillers, Thesis: “Synthesis, structure and properties of Albased borohydrides for hydrogen storage”, 2015, Thesis funded by a FSR funding (UCLouvain)
Master students
- Séraphin Lacour (20192020, CHIM student, co-promotion with prof. Sophie Hermans) – Thesis: “Functionalization of open-metal sites in stable MOFs through the use of small post-functionalized anchor molecules”
- Julien Delderenne (20192021, BIR student, co-promotion with prof. Yann Garcia) – Thesis: “The gravimetric tank method to evaluate CO2 adsorption in MOFs”
- Nicolas Grégoire (20182019, CHIM student) – Thesis: “Mechanochemical synthesis of defect-engineered HKUST‑1 for applications in catalysis and CO2 adsorption”
- Volodia Gounaris (20172018, CHIM student, co-promotion with prof. Geoffroy Hautier) – Thesis: “Hydride-based metal-ion conductors studied by combined theoretical and experimental approach”
- Véronique Louppe (20162017, CHIM student) – Thesis: “Accessing challenging amidoboranes for hydrogen storage”
- Adel Moulai (20162017, CHIM student) – Thesis: “Development of Complex Hydrides for Hydrogen and Gas Storage”
- Mathieu Vander Donckt (20162017, CHIM student) – Thesis: “Pronounced guest-guest interactions for noble gases in nanoporous borohydride revealed by structural studies”
- Fabrice Morelle (20122013, CHIM student) – Thesis: “Réactions dans les systèmes de stockage d’hydrogène à base de borohydrures et d’amidures”