Biography

Matthias Vandichel is an Associate Professor (SL) 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 Lecturer within the Department of Chemical Sciences and as Principle Investigator within the Bernal Institute.

Research interests: Computational catalysis, Electronic structure calculations, High-performance computing, Molecular Modeling
Teaching: Module leader of Chemical engineering thermodynamics (CG4005), Process Control and Modeling (CH4404), and Chemical Engineering Design Methods (CG5031).

Additional Links:More information on the Materials & Catalysis Modeling group and links to other modeling activities within the Bernal Institute can be found on MACATAMO-group.com. Matthias' research can be followed via Google Scholar, ORCID, Scopus, ResearcherID, ResearchGate and Twitter.

Qualifications:
M.Sc., Chemical Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium, 2008
Ph.D., Ghent University, Belgium, 2012


Research Interests

Research interests: Computational catalysis, Electronic structure calculations, High-performance computing, Molecular Modeling
Matthias' current research interests include computational catalysis (including electro and photo catalysis) and applications of kinetic modeling and Monte Carlo methods to study reaction networks and adsorption phenomena on heterogeneous material interfaces as well as the application of these techniques to describe adsorption and separation of molecules within crystalline porous materials.




Peer Reviewed Journals

2019

Viewpoint: Atomic-Scale Design Protocols toward Energy, Electronic, Catalysis, and Sensing Applications

Belviso, Florian,Claerbout, Victor E. P.,Comas-Vives, Aleix,Dalal, Naresh S.,Fan, Feng-Ren,Filippetti, Alessio,Fiorentini, Vincenzo,Foppa, Lucas,Franchini, Cesare,Geisler, Benjamin,Ghiringhelli, Luca M.,Groß, Axel,Hu, Shunbo,Íñiguez, Jorge,Kauwe, Steven Kaai,Musfeldt, Janice,L.,Nicolini, Paolo,Pentcheva, Rossitza,Polcar, Tomas,Ren, Wei,Ricci, Fabio,Ricci, Francesco,Sen, Huseyin Sener,Skelton, Jonathan Michael,Sparks, Taylor D.,Stroppa, Alessandro,Urru, Andrea,Vandichel, Matthias,Vavassori, Paolo,Wu, Hua,Yang, Ke,Zhao, Hong Jian,Puggioni, Danilo,Cortese, Remedios,Cammarata, Antonio (2019) Viewpoint: Atomic-Scale Design Protocols toward Energy, Electronic, Catalysis, and Sensing Applications. : American Chemical Society Inorganic Chemistry :14939-14980

2015

Au@UiO-66: a base free oxidation catalyst

Leus, K;Concepcion, P;Vandichel, M;Meledina, M;Grirrane, A;Esquivel, D;Turner, S;Poelman, D;Waroquier, M;Van Speybroeck, V;Van Tendeloo, G;Garcia, H;Van Der Voort, P; (2015) Au@UiO-66: a base free oxidation catalyst. Rsc Advances

2014

Base catalytic activity of alkaline earth MOFs: a (micro)spectroscopic study of active site formation by the controlled transformation of structural anions

Valvekens, P;Jonckheere, D;De Baerdemaeker, T;Kubarev, AV;Vandichel, M;Hemelsoet, K;Waroquier, M;Van Speybroeck, V;Smolders, E;Depla, D;Roeffaers, MBJ;De Vos, D; (2014) Base catalytic activity of alkaline earth MOFs: a (micro)spectroscopic study of active site formation by the controlled transformation of structural anions. Chemical Science

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2022

Elucidation of StructuretextendashActivity Relations in Proton Electroreduction at Pd Surfaces: Theoretical and Experimental Study

Thorsten O. Schmidt and Apinya Ngoipala and Ryan L. Arevalo and Sebastian A. Watzele and Raju Lipin and Regina M. Kluge and Shujin Hou and Richard W. Haid and Anatoliy Senyshyn and Elena L. Gubanova and Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka and Matthias Vandichel (2022) Elucidation of StructuretextendashActivity Relations in Proton Electroreduction at Pd Surfaces: Theoretical and Experimental Study. Small :2202410-

2022

Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution from Water Splitting on Ta2O5/SrZrO3 Heterostructures Decorated with CuxO/RuO2 Cocatalysts

Matthias Vandichel and Ali Margot Huerta-Flores and Francisco Ruiz-Zepeda and Cavit Eyovge and Jedrzej P. Winczewski and Matthias Vandichel and Miran Gabervsvcek and Nicolas D. Boscher and Han J.G.E. Gardeniers and Leticia M. Torres-Mart'inez and Arturo Susarrey-Arce (2022) Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution from Water Splitting on Ta2O5/SrZrO3 Heterostructures Decorated with CuxO/RuO2 Cocatalysts. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

2022

Chlorine in NiO promotes electroreduction of CO2 to formate

Matthias Vandichel and M.A. Rodriguez-Olguin and C. Flox and R. Ponce-P'erez and R. Lipin and F. Ruiz-Zepeda and J.P. Winczewski and T. Kallio and M. Vandichel and J. Guerrero-S'anchez and J.G.E. Gardeniers and N. Takeuchi and A. Susarrey-Arce (2022) Chlorine in NiO promotes electroreduction of CO2 to formate. Applied Materials Today

2021

Theory and modelling: general discussion

Dmytro Antypov and Vonika Ka-Man Au and Isabel Cooley and Franccois-Xavier Coudert and Deanna M. D'Alessandro and Qiaowei Li and Martin Schroder and Mikhail Suyetin and Matthias Vandichel and Sihai Yang and Michael Zaworotko and Elena Besley (2021) Theory and modelling: general discussion. Faraday Discussions

2021

Understanding the Dynamics of Molecular Water Oxidation Catalysts with Liquid-Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy: The Case of Vitamin B12

Zahra Abdi and S. Esmael Balaghi and Alla S. Sologubenko and Marc-Georg Willinger and Matthias Vandichel and Jian-Ren Shen and Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev and Greta R. Patzke and Mohammad Mahdi Najafpour (2021) Understanding the Dynamics of Molecular Water Oxidation Catalysts with Liquid-Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy: The Case of Vitamin B12. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering :9494-9505

2021

Breaking the trade-off between selectivity and adsorption capacity for gas separation

Naveen Kumar, Soumya Mukherjee, Nathan C. Harvey-Reid, Andrey A. Bezrukov, Kui Tan, Vinicius Martins, Matthias Vandichel, Tony Pham, Lisa M. van Wyk, Kolade Oyekan, Amrit Kumar, Katherine A. Forrest, Komal M. Patil, Leonard J. Barbour, Brian Space, Yining Huang, Paul E. Kruger, Michael J. Zaworotko (2021) Breaking the trade-off between selectivity and adsorption capacity for gas separation. Chem

2020

Reversible switching between nonporous and porous phases of a new SIFSIX coordination network induced by a flexible linker ligand

Song, Bai-Qiao and Yang, Qing-Yuan and Wang, Shi-Qiang and Vandichel, Matthias and Kumar, Amrit and Crowley, Clare and Kumar, Naveen and Deng, Cheng-Hua and GasconPerez, Victoria and Lusi, Matteo and others (2020) Reversible switching between nonporous and porous phases of a new SIFSIX coordination network induced by a flexible linker ligand. Journal of the American Chemical Society :6896-6901

2019

Initial Fe3O4 (100) formation on Fe (100)

Soldemo, Markus and Vandichel, Matthias and Gronbeck, Henrik and Weissenrieder, Jonas (2019) Initial Fe3O4 (100) formation on Fe (100). The Journal of Physical Chemistry C :16317-16325

2016

Biocompatible Zr-based nanoscale MOFs coated with modified poly ($varepsilon$-caprolactone) as anticancer drug carriers

Filippousi, Maria and Turner, Stuart and Leus, Karen and Siafaka, Panoraia I and Tseligka, Eirini D and Vandichel, Matthias and Nanaki, Stavroula G and Vizirianakis, Ioannis S and Bikiaris, Dimitrios N and Van Der Voort, Pascal and others (2016) Biocompatible Zr-based nanoscale MOFs coated with modified poly ($varepsilon$-caprolactone) as anticancer drug carriers. International journal of pharmaceutics :208-218

2014

Catalytic Performance of Vanadium MIL-47 and Linker-Substituted Variants in the Oxidation of Cyclohexene: A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Approach

Vandichel, Matthias and Biswas, Shyam and Leus, Karen and Paier, Joachim and Sauer, Joachim and Verstraelen, Toon and Van Der Voort, Pascal and Waroquier, Michel and Van Speybroeck, Veronique (2014) Catalytic Performance of Vanadium MIL-47 and Linker-Substituted Variants in the Oxidation of Cyclohexene: A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Approach. ChemPlusChem :1183-1197

2014

Base catalytic activity of alkaline earth MOFs: a (micro) spectroscopic study of active site formation by the controlled transformation of structural anions

Valvekens, Pieterjan and Jonckheere, Dries and De Baerdemaeker, Trees and Kubarev, AV and Vandichel, Matthias and Hemelsoet, Karen and Waroquier, Michel and Van Speybroeck, Veronique and Smolders, Erik and Depla, Diederik and others (2014) Base catalytic activity of alkaline earth MOFs: a (micro) spectroscopic study of active site formation by the controlled transformation of structural anions. Chemical Science :4517-4524

2014

Base catalytic activity of alkaline earth MOFs: a (micro)spectroscopic study of active site formation by the controlled transformation of structural anions

Valvekens, P and Jonckheere, D and De Baerdemaeker, T and Kubarev, AV and Vandichel, M and Hemelsoet, K and Waroquier, M and Van Speybroeck, V and Smolders, E and Depla, D and Roeffaers, MBJ and De Vos, D (2014) Base catalytic activity of alkaline earth MOFs: a (micro)spectroscopic study of active site formation by the controlled transformation of structural anions. Chemical Science :4517-4524

2014

Vanadium metal--organic frameworks: structures and applications

Van Der Voort, Pascal and Leus, Karen and Liu, Ying-Ya and Vandichel, Matthias and Van Speybroeck, Veronique and Waroquier, Michel and Biswas, Shyam (2014) Vanadium metal--organic frameworks: structures and applications. New Journal of Chemistry :1853-1867

2013

New Functionalized Metal-Organic Frameworks MIL-47-X (X=-Cl, -Br, -CH3, -CF3, -OH, -OCH3): Synthesis, Characterization, and CO2 Adsorption Properties

Biswas, S and Vanpoucke, DEP and Verstraelen, T and Vandichel, M and Couck, S and Leus, K and Liu, YY and Waroquier, M and Van Speybroeck, V and Denayer, JFM and Van der Voort, P (2013) New Functionalized Metal-Organic Frameworks MIL-47-X (X=-Cl, -Br, -CH3, -CF3, -OH, -OCH3): Synthesis, Characterization, and CO2 Adsorption Properties. Journal of Physical Chemistry C :22784-22796

2013

New functionalized metal--organic frameworks MIL-47-X (X=- Cl,- Br,- CH3,- CF3,- OH,- OCH3): synthesis, characterization, and CO2 adsorption properties

Biswas, Shyam and Vanpoucke, Danny EP and Verstraelen, Toon and Vandichel, Matthias and Couck, Sarah and Leus, Karen and Liu, Ying-Ya and Waroquier, Michel and Van Speybroeck, Veronique and Denayer, Joeri FM and others (2013) New functionalized metal--organic frameworks MIL-47-X (X=- Cl,- Br,- CH3,- CF3,- OH,- OCH3): synthesis, characterization, and CO2 adsorption properties. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C :22784-22796

2013

Synthesis modulation as a tool to increase the catalytic activity of metal--organic frameworks: the unique case of UiO-66 (Zr)

Vermoortele, Frederik and Bueken, Bart and Le Bars, Gae�lle and Van de Voorde, Ben and Vandichel, Matthias and Houthoofd, Kristof and Vimont, Alexandre and Daturi, Marco and Waroquier, Michel and Van Speybroeck, Veronique and others (2013) Synthesis modulation as a tool to increase the catalytic activity of metal--organic frameworks: the unique case of UiO-66 (Zr). Journal of the American Chemical Society :11465-11468

2013

Synthesis Modulation as a Tool To Increase the Catalytic Activity of Metal-Organic Frameworks: The Unique Case of UiO-66(Zr)

Vermoortele, F and Bueken, B and Le Bars, G and Van de Voorde, B and Vandichel, M and Houthoofd, K and Vimont, A and Daturi, M and Waroquier, M and Van Speybroeck, V and Kirschhock, C and De Vos, DE (2013) Synthesis Modulation as a Tool To Increase the Catalytic Activity of Metal-Organic Frameworks: The Unique Case of UiO-66(Zr). Journal of the American Chemical Society :11465-11468

2012

The coordinatively saturated vanadium MIL-47 as a low leaching heterogeneous catalyst in the oxidation of cyclohexene

Leus, K and Vandichel, M and Liu, YY and Muylaert, I and Musschoot, J and Pyl, S and Vrielinck, H and Callens, F and Marin, GB and Detavernier, C and Wiper, PV and Khimyak, YZ and Waroquier, M and Van Speybroeck, V and Van der Voort, P (2012) The coordinatively saturated vanadium MIL-47 as a low leaching heterogeneous catalyst in the oxidation of cyclohexene. Journal of Catalysis :196-207

2012

Synthesis, characterization and sorption properties of NH2-MIL-47

Leus, K and Couck, S and Vandichel, M and Vanhaelewyn, G and Liu, YY and Marin, GB and Van Driessche, I and Depla, D and Waroquier, M and Van Speybroeck, V and Denayer, JFM and Van Der Voort, P (2012) Synthesis, characterization and sorption properties of NH2-MIL-47. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics :15562-15570

2012

Synthesis, characterization and sorption properties of NH 2-MIL-47

Leus, Karen and Couck, Sarah and Vandichel, Matthias and Vanhaelewyn, Gauthier and Liu, Ying-Ya and Marin, Guy B and Van Driessche, Isabel and Depla, Diederik and Waroquier, Michel and Van Speybroeck, Veronique and others (2012) Synthesis, characterization and sorption properties of NH 2-MIL-47. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics :15562-15570

2011

First principle kinetic studies of zeolite-catalyzed methylation reactions

Van Speybroeck, Veronique and Van der Mynsbrugge, Jeroen and Vandichel, Matthias and Hemelsoet, Karen and Lesthaeghe, David and Ghysels, An and Marin, Guy B and Waroquier, Michel (2011) First principle kinetic studies of zeolite-catalyzed methylation reactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society :888-899

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