Students and Postdocs

Postdocs

2024-2027 - Yikai Liu - "ENCAPSULATE - Demystifying mechanisms of metal impurities during CO2 mineralization of industrial solid wastes". MSCA Postdoc.
2025-2027 - Laura Calzolari - "DAPHNE – Deciphering the formation of amorphous binders in ancient Roman mortars for modern applications". MSCA Postdoc.

PhD students

2025-2028 - Giulia Santillo - "Characterization of a cementitious grout for the CIGEO project". Funded by ANDRA. Co-supervised with D. Daval (ISTerre).
2024-2027 - Binh Duong Au - "Nucleation and growth rates of CaCO3 in cement pores and surfaces". Doctoral Network CONTRABASS. Co-supervised with AES Van Driessche (CSIC Granada).
2022-2025 - Mathilde Dehue - "Carbonation of recycled cement pastes : lowering the CO2 footprint of the cement industry". Co-supervised with J.L. Hazemann (Inst. Neel). Industrial collaboration with Heidelberg Cement.
2022-2025 - Diksha Saini - "Selenium redox reactivity in environmental geomedia". Co-supervised with Norbert Jordan (HZDR, Dresden, Germany).

Visiting postdocs

2023 - Luis Monasterio Guillot - "C-S-H nucleation in the presence of organic additives". Univ. Granada, Spain.

Visiting PhD students

May 2022 - July 2022 - Laura Calzolari - Univ. La Sapienza, Rome, Italy. "Ancient Roman mortars".
July 2021 - June 2023 - Maria Curria - Princeton university. "New LDH-based CO2 adsorbents".
September 2019 - January 2020 - Felipe Marti Montava - ETEX Group & Univ. Politecnica de Valencia (Spain). "Understanding xonotlite nucleation and growth"
September - December 2018 / September 2019 - Luis Monasterio - Univ. Granada (Spain). "Fly ash reactivity and silicate dissolution processes"
September - December 2018 - Luis Monasterio - Univ. Granada (Spain). "Fly ash reactivity and silicate dissolution processes"
October 2016 - Ingrid Nayeli Escobar Quiroz - UNAM (Mexico). "Caracterizacion de los minerales secundarios de Fe(III) : Schwertmannita, jarosita e (hidr)oxidos, provenientes de residuos minero-metalurgicos y su reactividad de retencion de iones contaminantes"

Master and License students

2023 - Matthieu Guyon - IUT Mesures Physiques. "Development of an in situ Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (DRIFTS) system for carbonation experiments." Co-supervised with Valerie Magnin (ISTerre).
2021 - Lena Bulle - IUT Chimie. "CO2 adsorption by cements, effect of organic additives."
2020 - Rohan Parmar - M2 Marine Geochemisry. "Crystallization in high salinity conditions / Biomineral characterization."
2016-17 - Antoine Bourdin - IUT Mesures Physiques. "Heterogeneous nucleation by UV-vis"
2016 - Ruben Soria-Martinez - M2 Chemistry, Universidad de Oviedo (Spain). "Molecular dynamics simulations of mineral-water interfaces : Impact of surface curvature on wetting properties"
2015 - Hugo Lopez Martinez - M1 Physics, Universidad de Oviedo (Spain). "Structural characterization of amorphous precursors and nanoparticles of environmental interest"
2014 - Nawel Adoui - IUT Chimie. "Chemical characterization of amorphous carbonates"
2014 - William Degouy - L3 Geosciences. "Precipitation of amorphous carbonates in porous media"
2014 - Boris Metral - M1 Chimie. "Interactions of selenium oxyanions with barite"
2013 - Benjamin Bataille - IUT Mesures Physiques. "Synthesis and characterization of hydrated carbonates"

Alumni and current position

2011-2016 - Sergio Carrero-Romero, PhD. Research scientist at IDAEA, Barcelona, Spain.
2014-2017 - Ayumi Koishi, PhD student. Now researcher at RIKEN (Japan).
2014-2017 - Bin Ma, PhD student. Now Professor at North China Electric Power University (China).
2017-2018 - Christine Browne, Postdoc – "Atomic force spectroscopy studies of face-specific interactions between inorganic crystals". Now postdoc in Melbourne Univ.
2015-2019 - Alba Lozano Letellier, PhD student. Now researcher at Univ. Leon, Spain.
2018-2019 - Sara Goberna-Ferron, postdoc. Now postdoc at Inst. Catala de Nanotecnologia, Barcelona, Spain.
2018-2020 - Maria Pilar Asta, MSCA postdoc. Now researcher at Univ. Granada, Spain.
2019-2021 - Agnieszka Poulain, postdoc. Now working at industry.
2018-2021 - Rogier Besselink, postdoc. Now researcher at Eurekite, Netherlands.
2017-2021 - Lina Bouzouaid, PhD student.
2017-2021 - Zhanar Zhakiyeva, PhD student. Now postdoc at Princeton University, USA.
2019-2022 - Kaifeng Wang, PhD student. Now postdoc at Geological urvey of Denmark.
2020-2022 - Alicia Moya Cuenca. Postdoc. Industrial project with TOTAL to characterize mineral wrttability using atomic force spectroscopy – Currently postdoc at Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.
2019-2022 - Michela La Bella - "In situ studies of cement hydration and alteration processes using nanoscale X-ray diffraction techniques". Co-supervised with Carlotta Giacobbe (ESRF). Currently postdoc at the Physics Dept. of DTU (Denmark).
2019-2022 - Andrew Lauer - "Nucleation in confinement". Co-supervised with Roland Hellmann and Alexander Van Driessche (ISTerre). ANR project. Currently postdoc at ISTerre (France).
2021-2024 - Rajkumar Chowdhury - "Chemical and physical characterization of nannoconus, the main planktonic producer of carbonates in the Cretaceous oceans". Co-supervised with Fabienne Giraud-Guillot (ISTerre). Currently looking for a postdoc.
2021-2024 - Annet Baken - "Understanding how green additives control crystallization at the nanoscale". Co-supervised with Alexander Van Driessche (ISTerre) and Marco di Michiel (ESRF). InnovaXN programme involving ESRF and BASF. Currently looking for a postdoc.