Current Lab Members

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

Zac Leong z.leong@tudelft.nl gscholar

Zac is working on developing novel processes for selective capacitative deionisation combining physical and electrochemical approaches. Zac hails from Malaysia and Singapore. His project is a collaboration between a Swedish-Dutch start up Avsalt and he is co-advised by Niels Boon and Remco Hartkamp.

Sevgi Polat  s.polat@tudelft.nl

Sevgi joined our lab on a prestigious TUBITAK fellowship for a year after completing her degree in Marmara University, Istanbul on crystallisation of various inorganic compounds. She is our expert in crystal characterisation and she is co-advised by Ruud Kortlever on developing next generation separation technologies aiming to speed up energy transition.

PhD STUDENTS

Rumen Gregoriev  r.gregoriev@tudelft.nl

Rumen joined the Eral Lab in November 2016 as a PhD student completing his MSc Cum Laude in Utrecht university. He is a proud theoretician turned experimentalist. He hails from high mountains of Bulgaria. He moved to Hawai, USA for his postdoctoral studies as of November 2021.

Fatma Ibis f.ibis1@tudelft.nl

Fatma joined the Eral Lab in November 2016 as a recipient of prestigious Turkish science foundation (TUBITAK)  fellowship. In her interdisciplinary PhD project, she is investigating the emergence of kidney stones in vitro and she is designing microstructured biomaterials for suppression of kidney stone crystallization/aggregation. In her interdisciplinary project, she is combining her experience  in bioengineering with the crystallization expertise of Eral lab and the microfabrication capabilities of Luigi Sasso’s group in PME department.  Fatma received her M.Sc. degree in Department of Biomedical Technologies at Izmir Katip Çelebi University and B.Sc. degree  from Bioengineering department in Ege University. During her undergraduate education, she studied in department of chemical engineering at Abo Akademi in Finland as an exchange student.  Her research interests center around bioengineering, plasma medicine, microbiology, cell culture, biomaterial, surface modification, crystallization.    Outside of the lab, Fatma enjoys traveling, swimming, trekking, spending time with her family and friends.

Mengmeng Zhang  m.zhang-7@tudelft.nl

Mengmeng joined the Eral Lab in March 2019 as a recipient of prestigious Chinese Science Counsel (CSC)  fellowship. In her interdisciplinary PhD project, she is developing microfluidic methods to fight counterfeit and detect deteriorated products combining polymer science, soft matter and hydrodynamics.  She is co-adviced by Eduardo Mendes from TU Delft Chemical Engineering.

Yavuz Kamis  y.e.kamis@tudelft.nl

Yavuz joined the Eral Lab in April 2019 to work on a prilling technology at the intersection of  Non-newtonian fluid mechanics and crystallization. His project is financed by Kreber B.V. through TKI subsidy.   He is co-adviced by Wim-Paul Breugem from TU Delft P&E/ fluid mechanics lab.

Nagaraj Nagalingam  n.nagalingam@tudelft.nl

Nagaraj joined as a PhD in the Eral Lab in November 2019. He works on the study of physico-chemical phenomenon of ”Non-PhotoChemical Laser Induced Nucleation”. He aims at controlled and predictive production with no additional particle modification or recrystallization steps on tailoring crystalline materials. He is co-supervised by Dr. Remco Hartkamp from Complex Fluid Processing group of TU Delft. Nagaraj received his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering – specializing in Energy, Flows and Process Technology from TU Delft. His previous work during masters (at Eral Labs) was on “Shape dependent motion of particles subjected to Stokes/creeping flow in a microfluidic channel having a Hele-Shaw geometry”. He is also a qualified Application Engineer in the field of Turbochargers with 2 years of experience. He has a strong determination to contribute to the field of transport phenomena.

Vikram Korede  v.korede@tudelft.nl

Vikram joined as a PhD in the Eral Lab in November 2019. He is working on Non-phtochemical laser induced nucleation and anti-solvent crystallization. During his masters (at Eral labs) he worked on the topic titled “Controlling crystal size in solvent exchange process”. He combines the knowledge of microfluidics, crystallization, optics, multiphase phenomena and aims to understand the interplay happening between light and matter in producing highly crystalline materials that has direct applications to fine speciality chemicals industries, pharmaceutical industries, catalyst industries etc. Vikram received his M.Sc. degree in Department of Chemical Engineering at TU Delft and Bachelors degree from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. Vikram also has an avid interest in playing different sports  enjoys time in playing cricket, tennis, chess, swimming. He is also passionate about  traveling and most importantly cooking outside the lab. Here is a short intro on Vikram in TU Delft site link.