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PhD Students

Antoine Dechany
In June 2021, I graduated as civil engineer in Chemical and Material's Science at UCLouvain. I am now pursuing a PhD under the supervision of Pr. Joris Proost at UCLouvain. It is part of the BE-HyFE project (BElgian Hydrogen Federal Expertise) funded by the Federal Energy Transition Fund (ETF) which started on the 1st October 2021 and gathers 16 PhD researchers focusing on the entire hydrogen value chain. The aim of my research is to observe the implications of electrifying the production of hydrogen in domains such as ammonia production, therefore replacing fossil-based hydrogen (SMR + CO2 capture) by "green hydrogen" (water electrolysis via renewable electricity).
antoine.dechany@uclouvain.be

Maxime Loudeche
graduated as a chemical and materials science engineer at UCLouvain (Belgium) in 2022. In September 2021, he started working on the Faraday Project under the supervision of Prof. Joris Proost for his master thesis. Now, he continues working on this project but as a researcher. The Faraday project is financed by the Wallonia Region and its goal is the development, testing and validation of a new type of reactor for the electrification of cement production.
maxime.loudeche@uclouvain.be

Rémy Rouxhet
graduated as civil engineer (chemistry and materials science) at UCLouvain, I am working as researcher for the Faraday project under the supervision of Pr. Joris Proost since September 2021.
The aim of this project is the development, testing and validation of a new type of reactor for the electrification of cement production. This project is financed by the Wallonia Region (Greenwin cluster).
remy.rouxhet@uclouvain.be

Kevin Van Droogenbroek
graduated as a chemical and materials science engineer at Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in June 2022. He is currently doing a Ph.D. thesis under the supervision of Prof. Joris Proost. His research is part of a bigger project funded by the Walloon region aiming at producing green hydrogen by water electrolysis. More specifically, his work consists in the fluid mechanical modeling of electrolyte flow within alkaline water electrolysis cells. The study of liquid electrolyte flow and of gaseous hydrogen bubble formation and escape will allow to optimise the performance of the electrolyser, in particular by homogeneity of the electrolyte within the cell in order to take advantage of the full specific area provided by the electrodes.
kevin.vandroogenbroek@uclouvain.be

Nathan Wauthy
graduated as a chemical and materials science engineer at Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain, Belgium) in 2022. Since January 2023, he is working on the federal research project Molecules at Sea (MuSE) under the supervision of Prof. Joris Proost. The overall objective is to develop the production and importation of offshore renewable molecules with a direct connection to offshore energy production. His research consists in studying the effect of trace impurities present after seawater treatment on the performance of alkaline water electrolysers.
nathan.wauthy@uclouvain.be

Senior scientists / postdoctoral researchers

Renaud Delmelle
I studied materials science engineering at UCLouvain. I graduated in 2008, after which I went on with a Ph.D. on thin film metal hydrides. Then in 2013, I moved to Empa in Switzerland as a postdoc, where I studied various hydrogen-related technologies during 3 years (storage, detection, permeation, power-to-gas). I continued as a research assistant at ZHAW in Winterthur, where I focused my research on the catalyzed hydrogenation of carbon dioxide for 4 years. I am now back in Belgium, developing electrolysis at IMAP.
renaud.delmelle@uclouvain.be