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About our four latest PhDs

Monday 06/07/2026

In the past half year we had four PhD defenses. Underneath you can find a short summary of their PhD research here at CMM. Congratulations again, Tom, Bernd, Siebe and Siddharth!

New Publication: Uncovering the mechanistic basis of bacterial pathogenesis and potential drug targets

Thursday 18/06/2026

We're excited to share our latest publication in Nature Communications, titled "Mechanistic basis of teichoic acid transport by a gatekeeper flippase."

Visit Seda Keskin

Thursday 11/06/2026

On June 11, prof. Seda Keskin – professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Koç University - visited the Center for Molecular Modeling. Aside from the inspiring discussions we had, she also gave a lecture entitled “Integrating Molecular Simulations with Machine Learning for Accelareting Discovery of MOFs”. Thank you for visiting us!

Looking back on a succesful edition of MOF2026 in New Orleans!

Thursday 04/06/2026

From May 16–20, Sven Rogge, Nils Clovin, Jelto Neirynck, Felix Claeys had the opportunity to attend and present their latest research.

Prof. Van Speybroeck participates in the Faraday Discussion Meeting

Monday 20/04/2026

On April 21st 2026, Prof. Van Speybroeck will participate as an invited speaker at the Faraday Discussion Meeting “Bridging the gap from surface science to heterogeneous catalysis.”

Congratulations to Felix Claeys for his Fayat bursary

Thursday 19/03/2026

Felix Claeys, one of our master’s students, has been awarded a Fayat bursary to pursue an MPhil in Micro and Nanotechnology Enterprise at the University of Cambridge!The Fayat bursary, supported by the Department Chancellery and Foreign Affairs of the Flemish Government, enables talented students from Flanders to gain international experience at leading academic institutions.

New software package ThermoLIB published!

Friday 30/01/2026

We are proud to anounce the public release of ThermoLIB, a Python/Cython library for post-processing molecular simulations to construct, transform and (de)project free energy surfaces and extract thermodynamic and kinetic properties. All with proper error estimation!

Congratulation dr. Dumortier!

Friday 20/06/2025

On Friday June 20, 2025, Loïc Dumortier successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘Model-Informed Training Data Curation for Reactive All-Atom Potentials’. During his PhD research he was supervised by prof. Toon Verstraelen (CMM, Ghent University), dr. Jelle Vekeman (CMM, Ghent University), dr. Theodorus De Bruin (IFP Energies Nouvelles) and dr.

Veronique Van Speybroeck awarded an ERC Advanced Grant TIME

Tuesday 17/06/2025

Veronique Van Speybroeck received an ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for her ambitious project TIME. This funding is amongst the EU’s most prestigious and competitive, providing leading senior researchers with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, curiosity-driven projects that could lead to major scientific breakthroughs.

Visit Romy Ettlinger

Wednesday 26/02/2025

On February 26, dr. Romy Ettlinger – junior group leader at the Technical University of Munich – visited the Center for Molecular Modeling. Aside from the inspiring discussions we had, she also gave a lecture entitled “Resource Recovery and the Remediation of Water using Porous Composite Materials”.

Visit Laura Gagliardi

Monday 24/02/2025

On Friday February 21, we had the honor to welcome prof. Laura Gagliardi from the University of Chicago, in the frame of her Syensqo Chair in Chemistry by the International Solvay Insitututes. Aside from the inspiring discussions we had, she also gave a lecture entitled “Theory, Computation and Machine Intelligence for Reticular Chemistry".

About our three latest PhDs

Monday 27/01/2025

In the past half year we had three PhD defenses. Underneath you can find a short summary of their PhD research here at CMM.Congratulations again, Juul, Aran and Sander! Juul De VosHigh-Throughput Screening of Covalent Organic Frameworks for Clean Energy Applications – Monday August 26, 2024Supervisors: prof. Veronique Van Speybroeck, prof. Sven Rogge, prof.

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