Alumni
PhDs
Isidro FLORENCIANO CANO
Project: Printed inorganic thermoelectric generators (ended in 2026)
Undergrad/Master: Applied Physics, Paris-Saclay University (France) / Physics and Engineering of Energy, National University of Singapore & Paris-Saclay University
Currently: Exploring the world
Tzu-Yi (Thomas) YU
Project: Printed organic thermoelectric generators (ended in 2026)
Undergrad/Master: Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University (Taiwan) / Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
Next career step: Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Physics, TU Munich, Germany
Tsu-Yu (Jean) CHOU
Project: Printed organic photovoltaics for energy harvesting in smart contact lenses (ended in 2026)
Undergrad/Master: Materials Science and Engineering, Tsing-Hua University (Taiwan) / Materials Science and Engineering, Tsing-Hua University (Taiwan)
Next career step: R&D engineer at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Taiwan
Michael ROHDE
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Project: Unveiling the cooling potential of anomalous Ettinghausen effect in magnetic Weyl semimetals (in collaboration with Prof. Clement Merckling & Prof. Pascal Gehring) (ended in 2026)
Undergrad/Master: Bachelor in Physics, University of Hamburg (Germany) / Master in Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
Hasan Emre BAYSAL
Project: Printed organic thermoelectric generators (ended in 2025)
Undergrad/Master: Materials Science & Nano Engineering, Sabancı University (Turkey) / Materials Science, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
Next career step: Lithography R&D engineer in IMEC, Belgium
Email: hasanemre.baysal@imec.be
Bokai ZHANG
Project: Printed organic thermoelectric generators (ended in 2025)
Undergrad/Master: Materials Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology (China) / Materials Science, University of Michigan (USA)
Next career step: Product Development Engineer, Kingfa Company, Guangzhou, China
Email: wwwhao12p@qq.com
Yuan TIAN
Project: Printed inorganic thermoelectric generators (ended in 2024, FWO fellowship)
Undergrad/Master: Undergrad/Master: Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University (China) / Erasmus Mundus Master of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, KU Leuven (Belgium) & Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)
Next career step: Patent attorney at IP Hills (Belgium)
Postdocs
Project: Hydrogels for bio-inspired synapses (ended in 2026)
PhD/Postdoc: PhD in Chemical Engineering, KU Leuven/Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven
Next career step: Technology Development Process Engineer, Wuyuan Semiconductor Technology (Qingdao), China
Email: xiaoyan.qing@outlook.com
Shubhradip Guchait
Project: Organic Thermoelectrics (ended in 2025)
PhD/Postdoc: PhD in Physical Chemistry, CNRS-University of Strasbourg / Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven.
Next career step: Postdoctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
Email:guchaits@mpipmainz.mpg.de
Michael Ng
Project: Printed Organic Thermoelectric Generators (ended in 2025)
PhD/Postdoc: PhD in Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven.
Vijitha Ignatious
Project: Organic Thermoelectrics (ended 2025)
PhD/Postdoc: PhD in Physics, CSIR- National Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences and Technology (India) / Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven (Belgium)
Email: LinkedIn, Google Scholar
Alysson Ferreira Morais
Project: A thermoelectric generator for low-grade heat to electricity/hydrogen conversion (H2E) (ended 2024)
PhD/Postdoc: PhD in Physics, University of São Paulo (Brazil) / Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, KU Leuven (Belgium)
Next career step: Postdoc at KU Leuven (PI: Johan Martens)
Email: Who is Who, Google Scholar
Daiman Zhu
Project: Printed thermoelectric generators (ended in 2022, FWO fellowship)
PhD/Postdoc: Materials Science and Engineering
(supervised by Prof. Changrong Li), University of Science and Technology Beijing (China)/Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven (Belgium)
Next career step: Faculty at North China Electric Power University (NCEPU), Beijing
Email: Linkedin; Researchgate