Matthias Vandichel

Matthias Vandichel is a Senior Lecturer in chemical engineering at the University of Limerick. He is a chemical engineering graduate from Ghent University (2003-2008). After his M.Sc. studies, he obtained a PhD-fellowship from Ghent University to investigate catalytic reactions within zeolites and metal organic frameworks (2008-2012). After his PhD, he expanded his research activities to the active site modulation of catalysts as postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (2013-2016). During this period, he visited two catalysis centres; IRCELyon (France) and the competence centre for catalysis in Chalmers (Sweden). He continued as a researcher at Chalmers (2016-2018), focusing on ab initio thermodynamics, kinetic modelling and the prediction of core level shifts. In September 2018, he joined Aalto University (Finland) to work primarily on the computational electrochemistry topics, such as the description of heterogeneous oxygen evolution catalysts. During his PhD and postdoctoral periods, he has gathered expertise within molecular modeling techniques and catalysis by being embedded within various interdisciplinary research environments. Since October 2019, he works at the University of Limerick as Faculty member of the Department of Chemical Sciences and as Principle Investigator in the Bernal Institute.