Timothy Steenhaut

Timothy Steenhaut - Belgian, born in May 1994

Languages

• Dutch (native)

• French (native)

• English (fluent)

Education

• 2012-2015           Bachelor of Applied Science, Chemistry, UCL (Belgium)

• 2015-2017           Master in Chemical science, UCL (Belgium) – Magna cum laude​​​​​

• 2016-2017           Master thesis « Polyamidoamine functionalized Carbon Nanotubes » (under co-supervision of prof. Sophie Hermans and prof. Olivier Riant)

• 2016                     Traineeship at KULeuven, title of research “Polyhalogenated BODIPYs” (under supervision of prof. Wim Dehaen)

• 2017-2022           Ph.D. Thesis, UCL (Belgium), research on metal-organic frameworks (under supervision of prof. Sophie Hermans and prof. Yaroslav Filinchuk)

                                          "Synthesis strategies towards new heterometallic and functionalized MOFs"

Employment

• 2017-2022           Doctoral researcher at the Université catholique de Louvain (F.R.I.A. fellowship)

• 2022                     Postdoctoral researcher (Research assistant) in the lab of prof. Yaroslav Filinchuk

                                         ARC project "Solid-State Micro-Batteries with Nanowire Electrodes: from Materials to Integration" (Microbat)

• 2023-Present     Postdoctoral researcher (Research assistant) in the lab of prof. Sophie Hermans

                                         H2.be project (funded by the Fonds de Transition Energétique of the FPS Economy)

Awards

• 2017          Best master thesis (chemical sciences) – Université catholique de Louvain

• 2017          Solvay prize of best master thesis

• 2017          FRIA fellowship

• 2019          FRIA fellowship

Teaching

• Université catholique de Louvain – LCHM1300 (“TP complémentaires”) – Supervision of the organic synthesis, mechanochemistry and powder X-ray diffraction parts of the course (2018-Present) – Elaboration of original practical work projects for bachelor students

• Supervision of traineeships, UCLouvain: 2 high school school students (2018), 3 bachelor students (1 in 2018 and 2 in 2019)

• Supervision of master theses, UCLouvain: 3 students (1 in 2018-2019 and 2 in 2019-2020)

Administrative experience

• Student’s representative (2015-2017), UCLouvain

• Procurement manager, lab of prof. Y. Filinchuk (2017-Present), UCLouvain

• “Comité d’utilisateurs de la plateforme ASM » Representative of the labs of prof. Y. Filinchuk and S. Hermans (2019-Present), UCLouvain

• Writing and supervision of scientific projects for master theses and internships (2018-Present)

Scientific and technical skills

• Organic and inorganic syntheses and purification methods: conventional solution synthesis, development of green synthesis strategies, solventless synthesis, etc.;

• Spectroscopic techniques: NMR (liquid and solid-state), UV-vis (liquid and solid), fluorescence, Raman, IR, XPS, EDX;

• Microscopies: SEM (coupled with EDX), optical microscopies (transmission, reflection, polarization);

• Thermal analyses: TGA, DSC, TGA/DSC-MS, study of gas sorption;

• X-ray diffraction techniques: conventional powder XRD, in situ PXRD, structure resolution through PXRD, synchrotron radiation experiments;

• Textural analysis through gas sorption-desorption experiments (determination of pore size and surface area): BET and BJH methods;

• Mass spectrometry.