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The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is inviting talented postdoctoral researchers and soon-to-be PhD graduates to apply for the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF).

At the International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists (IACIS) triennial conference Colloids 2025 in Canada, Dr.

At the International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques ( HPLC 2025 ) in Bruges, Dr.

At the 15th Fundamentals of Adsorption conference held in Porto, Portugal from May 18 - 23, 2025, Mathijs Born was awarded the poster prize for his contribution titled "Steel fiber-zeolite composite laminates for CO2 capture via induction swing adsorption".

Born Etterbeek 20/11/1936, Deceased Haifa, Israel 16/03/2025 Samuel Wajc obtained his doctor in applied sciences degree at our sisteruniversity the ULB (1965) on the dynamics and control of distillationsystems.

An international team of researchers from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Riga Technical University, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and the MESA+ Institute at the University of Twente has discovered a new method to generate electricity using small...

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...