Lab Principal Investigator
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Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. Tom currently leads the Burdyny Energy Lab where our group investigates electrochemical conversion technologies with the goal of bringing them to reality.
Early in his mechanical engineering bachelor's at the University of Victoria, Tom developed an interest in global energy systems and developing technologies to help mitigate the impacts of climate change. The lab's current research is driven equally by phenomena occurring at the nanoscale, and understanding the technical, economical and political barriers to global-scale implementation of new energy technologies. During his PhD at the University of Toronto (2013-17), he investigated catalyst-system interactions and mass transport in CO2 electrolyzers. The research formed the basis for his role in the Carbon XPRIZE competition, working to design scaled systems. |
Current PhD Students
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Jesse KokJesse completed his bachelor Molecular Science and Technology in 2020 and his Master of Chemical Engineering in 2022 from the TU Delft. His master thesis was conducted at MECS under supervision of Siddhartha Subramanian and Dr. Tom Burdyny. Here, he studied the influence of reactant residence time on C2 product formation in MEA-cells. After experiencing great interest in the field of the electrochemical reduction of CO2, he was offered a PhD position in the same group. His research focus is on the intermittent operation of CO2 electrolysers as a part of the FlexEChem project.
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Siddhartha Subramanian
Siddhartha Subramanian earned his B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Pondicherry University, India (2014) and MSc in Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University, United Kingdom (2015). He then moved back to India performing research activities at CSIR-Central Electrochemical research Institute, Karaikudi where he worked on the design of an electrochemical process for converting CO2 to oxalic acid. In January 2020, he joined TU Delft as a PhD candidate. His current research focuses on the design of high current density systems for the electrocatalytic conversion of CO2 to value added products.
Recent Publication: Geometric Catalyst Utilization in Zero-Gap CO2 Electrolyzers. S Subramanian, K Yang, M Li, M Sassenburg, M Abdinejad, E Irtem, J Middelkoop, T Burdyny, ACS Energy Letters, 8, 222-229 (2023) |
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Hugo was born and grew up in Catalonia, Spain. He moved to Delft to earn his BSc in Molecular Science and Technology and his MSc in Chemical Engineering. Upon graduation, he joined the TATA Steel in Europe manufacturing facility in IJmuiden, where he developed advanced analytics control models based on big data. In March 2020, he joined again the Delft University of Technology as a PhD candidate focusing on high current-density system design for electrochemical CO2-reduction. Hugo likes to fill his spare time with reading modern and classical literature, playing violin and viola at a student orchestra and string quartet and learning new languages.
Recent Publication: Mapping Spatial and Temporal Electrochemical Activity of Water and CO2 Electrolysis on Gas-Diffusion Electrodes Using Infrared Thermography. HP Iglesias van Montfort, T Burdyny, ACS Energy Letters, 7, 2410-2419 (2022) |
Postdoctoral Fellows
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Jasper received his BSc and MSc in Chemistry at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam. In 2017, he started his PhD at the Heterogeneous Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry group of the University of Amsterdam. Here he mainly focused on the use of carbon-based materials for electrochemical conversion reactions. In 2020, he successfully defended his manuscript ‘A Green Spark in Electronics’ and went for one year hiatus to Teijin Aramid. He returned to academia in 2023 to work in the MECS group as a Postdoc. Here, he enjoys using his background in organic chemistry, material science and electrocatalysis to further develop scaled CO2 to CO electrolysers and molecular electrocatalysts.
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Alumni
PhD Students and Postdocs
Dr. Kailun Yang (PhD/Postdoc 2017 - 2022, now at Elestor BV)
Dr. Kai Liu (PhD 2017 - 2022)
Dr. Erdem Irtem (Postdoc 2020 - 2022, now at VS Particles)
Prof. Mengran Li (Postdoc 2021 - 2022, now at University of Melbourne)
Dr. Maryam Abdinejad (Postdoc 2021 - 2023, now a PD at MIT)
Dr. Kailun Yang (PhD/Postdoc 2017 - 2022, now at Elestor BV)
Dr. Kai Liu (PhD 2017 - 2022)
Dr. Erdem Irtem (Postdoc 2020 - 2022, now at VS Particles)
Prof. Mengran Li (Postdoc 2021 - 2022, now at University of Melbourne)
Dr. Maryam Abdinejad (Postdoc 2021 - 2023, now a PD at MIT)