Staff scientists

Andrei Khodakov

Director de recherche CNRS

phone: + 33 3 20 33 54 39

Office: C111, Centrale Lille

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Andrei Khodakov graduated from the Moscow State University in 1987, received his PhD degree in 1991 from the Russian Academy of Sciences and his Habilitation (Dr Sci.) degree in 2002 from the University of Lille. In 1992-1999, Dr. Andrei Y. Khodakov acquired experience in top academic and industrial institutions in the United States (UC Berkeley, LBNL, Sabic Technology Center), in France (IFP, ENSCP, LURE) and in the UK (University of Edinburgh, UMIST). Currently Dr Khodakov is a Senior CNRS Research Director and Head of Catalysis for Energy research group in the UCCS CNRS laboratory in the University of Lille. His research interests cover catalyst and reactor design aspects for conversion of fossil and renewable feedstocks, reaction mechanisms and kinetics, in situ and operando techniques. The most important scientific achievements are in the field of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (synthesis of fuels, light olefins and oxygenates) as well as in the field of activation of paraffins. 

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Vitaly Ordomsky

​Charge de recherche CNRS

phone: + 33 3 20  43 69 53

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Vitaly Ordomsky received his MSc (2006) and PhD (2009) degree from Moscow State University in the field of application of zeolite materials in catalysis. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Eindhoven University in the Netherlands, working on biomass conversion using heterogeneous catalysts. Afterwards, he received a permanent position as a researcher in 2013 at the CNRS (France) in the Energy group of Lille University working in C1 chemistry.  From 2016 to 2019 he was CNRS researcher in E2P2L laboratory in Shanghai. His main research field is development of new nano-materials for sustainable chemistry. 

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Mirella VIRGINIE
Associate Professor

phone: + 33 3 20 43 69 52
Office: C3 Lille University

Mirella VIRGINIE obtained her MSc in 2007 on the topic of ethanol steam reforming before to obtained her PhD degree in 2011 in the field of catalytic tar reforming produced during biomass gasification, in Laboratoire des Matériaux, Surfaces et Procédés pour la Catalyse from Strasbourg University. She acquired experience in the fields of catalytic membrane reactor during her postdoctoral research in Département des Sciences Analytiques of the Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien Strasbourg.
 Currently Dr Virginie is an Associate Professor in the UCCS CNRS laboratory in the University of Lille. Her research interests cover designing of heterogeneous catalysts for Fischer-tropsch synthesis and Dry methane reforming, biogas valorization, kinetic modeling, and effect of H2S as impurities.

Postdocs

Deizi Vanessa Peron

Postdoc

phone: + 33 7 55 28 00 12

Office: B119c

Deizi is from Iraceminha – SC / Brazil. Deizi received her B.S. and master degree in Chemical Engineering, working on the extraction of anthocyanins for dyes. In 2019, she obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul with the collaboration of the Universitè de Lille under supervision of Professor Nilson Marcilio, Liliana Féris and Andrei Khodakov. Her doctoral work involved the synthesis of zeolites with an alternative source of silicon, as well as preparation of metal catalysts for hydrogenation reactions. In Setember 2019, Deizi joined Prof. Andrei Khodakov group as a postdoc fellow where her current research work is focus on investigation of the mechanism, active sites and kinetics of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide catalytic hydrogenation to olefins using the state of the art operando and in-situ techniques, isotope labelling, transient and steady state kinetic experiments.

Yong Zhou

Postdoc

Yong comes from Xiangtan, China. He received his master degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Xiangtan University in 2016, working on resolving the salting effects on the hydrogen bonding of water by spectrometric methods. He continued his PhD study at Charles University in Prague and obtained his PhD in in Physical Chemistry in 2020 under supervision of Dr. Maksym Opanasenko and Professor Jiri Cejka. In Prague, his work mainly involved synthesis and catalytic applications of zeolites materials. From 2021, Yong joined the group of Prof. Andrei Khodakov group as a postdoc where his research work is focus on studying the promoting functionalities of liquid metals in catalysis under the supervision of Professor Vitaly Ordomsky. 

Sergei Chernyak

Postdoc

Dr. Sergei Chernyak received his MS (2011) and Ph.D. (2017) degrees in physical chemistry at the Chemistry Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University. From 2018 to 2021 he worked as a senior researcher at the laboratory of Catalysis and Gas Electrochemistry (MSU) and in the beginning of 2021 he joined SusCat research group as a post-doc in the frame of the "Take-Off" project. His research interests involve development of new nanostructures for catalytic hydrogenation of CO and CO2 and carbon nanomaterials chemistry including synthesis and investigation of carbon nanotubes, graphene nanoflakes, carbon dots, and their composites. 

Chunyang Dong

Postdoc

phone: +33 0787348052

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Dr. Chunyang Dong was born in Qufu, China, which is the hometown of Confucius. He received a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering in 2018, under the supervision of Prof. Jinlong Zhang at East China University of Science and Technology. Thereafter, he joined Prof. Ding Ma’s group at Peking University as a Boya Postdoctoral fellow. From April 2021, Chunyang moved to Lille, France, as a CNRS Postdoc in Prof. Andrei Khodakov’s group. His research interest is photocatalysis and catalytic hydrogen storage/production. Herein, his main research is focusing on the solar-driven methane conversion project.

PhD students

Débora Strossi

PhD student

Débora is from Bossoroca, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Graduated in Environmental Engineering from the Federal University Fronteira Sul. Débora has a Master's degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul where she worked in obtaining zeolites from coal fly ash for application in the SO2 adsorption process. She is currently a PhD student at the same university in "cotutellle" with the University of Lille working on the synthesis of highly efficient zeolitic catalysts.

Alan Barrios

PhD student

Alan Barrios received his BSc degree from Central University of Venezuela (UCV) in December 2017. He is currently a PhD candidate in Professor Andrei Khodakov’s group. His research interest focuses on designing novel heterogeneous catalysts for CO and CO2 hydrogenation.