Adriaan van den Bruinhorst

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Téléphone +33 (0)4 73 40 71 90

Email Adriaan.van_den_bruinhorst@uca.fr

Office 7128, Building 7 Campus Universitaire des Cézeaux 24 Avenue Blaise Pascal 63178 Aubière

2024–Now Assistant professor in experimental thermodynamics at the Université Clermont Auvergne
Group: Molecular interactions and thermodynamics
2019–2023 Postdoctoral researcher in molecular thermodynamics at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Project: Molecular thermodynamics of deep eutectic solvents and ionic liquids
Group: Ionic Liquids (Department of Chemistry) led by Margarida Costa Gomes and Agilio Padua
2018–2019 Postdoctoral researcher in physical chemistry at the Chemical Engineering and Chemistry department of the Eindhoven University of Technology
Project: Correlating the Surface Energy of Photoresist-like Polymers to their Functional Groups
Group: Laboratory of Physical Chemistry led by Dr. Remco Tuinier, project led by Dr. Gijsbertus de With
2012–2018 PhD in Chemical Engineering at the Chemical Engineering and Chemistry department of the Eindhoven University of Technology
Thesis: Deep Eutectic Solvents – A New Generation of Designer Solvents
Promotors: Maaike C. Kroon, Jan Meuldijk, Catarina C. Esteves
2006–2012 Bachelor's and Master's (cum laude) in Science at the Chemical Engineering and Chemistry department of the Eindhoven University of Technology
MSc thesis: Processing Lignocellulosic Biomass with Low Transition Temperature Mixtures (LTTMs)
Supervisors: Maria Francisco Casal, Maaike C. Kroon

2026–2030 GreenAir – Innovative VOC Remediation using Deep Eutectic Solvents and Porous Liquids
Grant: ANR-PRCI international collaboration between three French and one Taiwanese university
Collaborators: Margarida Costa Gomes (ENS de Lyon), Sophie Fourmentin (Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale), Ardila Tiwikrama (TaipeiTech)
2026–2028 Pressure as Entropy Probe for Electrolytes
Grant: Impulsion, a local project financed by CAP 2025 I-Site Clermont
2025–2027 Rational Design of New Deep Eutectic Solvents
Grant: AURA Ambition Internationale, a regional grant from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Collaborators: Margarida Costa Gomes (ENS de Lyon), Simon Müller (Technische Universität Hamburg)

2026/08 (invited) Career Advice Panelists at the Gordon Research Seminar on Ionic Liquids
Location: Newry, Maine, USA
2026/05 (invited) Plenary speaker at the 3rd International Symposium on Chemical Thermodynamics for Young Researchers
Title: Pressure as Entropy Probe for Deep Eutectic Solvents
Location: Laurino, Italy
2026/05 (invited) Workshop presenter at the 3rd International Symposium on Chemical Thermodynamics for Young Researchers
Title: Making solvents from solids – Are deeper eutectics always better?
Location: Laurino, Italy
2026/04 (invited) Panel member of the 1st Walden Panel on Ionic Liquids
Title: Physical chemistry of mixtures of ionic liquids – as well as deep eutectic solvents
Location: Riga, Latvia
URL: https://www.waldenpanel.com/
2025/07 (invited) Keynote speaker at the 27th International Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics
Title: Assessing concealed thermodynamic properties of deep eutectic solvents and their constituents
Location: Porto, Portugal
2025/06 Oral communication at the 1st International Symposium on Deep Eutectic Solvents
Title: Defying decomposition of deep eutectic solvent constituents: liquid structure and thermodynamics
Location: Bari, Italy