EPFL-PSI Professorship in Solid Waste Treatment

Chemical Processes and Materials
Our motto: Chemical Process for Materials and Materials for Chemical Processes

Fields of Expertise
We work in an interdisciplinary team consisting of Materials Scientists, Chemical and Mechanical Engineers, Chemists, Physicist and Biologists.

Recent Work
Recent work focused on the following topics

• Recovery of rare earth elements and phosphorus from wastes and residues
• Synthesis of nanomaterials for energy and waste technology applications
• Using algal biomass for recycling nutrients from wastewater streams, and for the production of renewable biofuels, chemicals, and materials
• Implementation of archaea as probiontic for waste, energy and medical applications
• Develop analytical methods and tools to support waste and energy technology development

In this context we develop methods to perform fundamental investigation to study

• sorption processes at the solid/gas and solid/liquid interface
• quantity and chemical composition of nanoparticles in gases and fluids
• nucleation, crystallization and formation of (nano-)particles in solutions