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Ir. Jennifer Pham Van was granted the Award for Best Oral Presentation at the Dutch Zeolite Association (DZA) Symposium 2024 held in Leuven, Belgium.

Dr. Bram Huygens was awarded as the winner of the Science Slam at the 34th International Symposium on Chromatography in Liverpool, United Kingdom, held between October 6-10, 2024. The objective was to “ Harness the power of your voice and become a captivating communicator in the ISC-Slam!

Bram Huygens is the 2024 Award winner of LCGC International’s  Rising Stars of Separation Science Award for Outstanding Achievement in Liquid Chromatography, sponsored by Advanced Materials Technology.

Professor Gert Desmet and professor Wim De Malsche of VUB’s Department of Chemical Engineering have both been selected by The Analytical Scientist as part of the 60 leaders and influencers in analytical science whose work is transforming the world around us – for the better.  The Ana...

At the  MSB 2024 conference, held in Brno, Czech Republic from May 16-22, 2024, Dr. Ignaas Jimidar was awarded second place for his oral presentation titled 'Dry and Wet Assembly Approaches for Arranging Ordered Particle Monolayers and Arrays'...

Researchers from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Riga Technical University and the MESA+ Institute at the University of Twente have succeeded in arranging very small particles (10 µm to 500 nm, 10 to 100 times thinner than a human hair) in a thin layer witho...

On October 22nd, the ‘ 2023 Solvay Public Lectures ’ took place. Dr. Thomas Themelis was honored as one of the recipients of the prestigious Solvay Award for his PhD research on spatial three-dimensional chromatography.

On Saturday, September 9, 2023, the Chemical Engineering Department (CHIS) celebrated its 50th anniversary at the VUB Main Campus, adjacent to the new Building I. Due to the pandemic, the planned celebration in 2020 had to be postponed.

Prof. Gert Desmet ranked  2 nd in the  “Leaders and Advocates Power List” of The Analytical Scientist The Department of Chemical Engineering (CHIS) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, proudly announces that Prof. dr. ir.

   At the SFC Europe 2023 conference held in Basel, Switzerland on May 15-16, 2023, ir. Timothy Januarius was awarded with the Poster Prize for his contribution entitled “CFD study on the true separation performance in SFC”. 

The SOS International Green Impact Special Awards recognize exceptional students, staff members and teams who participated in the Green Impact program in 2022.  SOS International has supported the Green Impact program at 5 universities in Belgium and The Netherlands in 2021-2022 and nomina...

Amaury de Hemptinne of the Department of Chemical Engineering was awarded with the 1st prize for the best oral presentation in the session Chemical Processes and Reactor Technologies at the CRF-ChemCYS Symposium 2022 (Chemical Research in Flanders - Chemistry Conference for Young Scientists) held in...

The Department of Chemical Engineering is glad to announce that Prof.

At the 33rd International Symposium for Chromatography (ISC 2022) held in Budapest, Hungary, Gert Desmet was awarded the Martin Gold Medal from the Royal British Chromatographic Society. The award is named after the 1952 Nobel laureate A.J.P. Martin. 

Bert Vankeerberghen of the Department of Chemical Engineering (CHIS) was awarded the Best Poster Prize at the 38th International Symposium on Microscale Separations and Bioanalysis (MSB 2022) held in Liège, Belgium in July 2022.  He received the €100 award for his poster entitled: “A novel...

     The demand for microfluidics is rising in the medical, pharma and biotech industry. It has multiple applications such as the isolation of cancer cells from blood.

At the 17th International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography and Separation Technology (HTC-17), held in Ghent from May 18-20, 2022, ir. Bram Huygens was awarded with the third place in the poster awards.

 4.7 million euro for new research infrastructure at VUB  Ensuring an optimal research environment is one of the most important tasks of VUB’s research policy. This also means ensuring that researchers have state-of-the-art research infrastructure at their disposal.

   21/04/2022 - 17:15             The Chromatographic Society (ChromSoc) have announced the winner of the 2022 Jubilee Medal as Sebastiaan Eeltink, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium.

 Professor Wim De Malsche builds new instrument for complex separations such as blood analysis  Monday, February 14, 2022 — A Vrije Universiteit Brussel researcher has received a second European Research Council Proof of Concept Grant for his ultra-performance analytical separations,