Our team of experts have different backgrounds and disciplines and work together on sustainability.
Paco Rutten
Program Officer (Circular Plastics, Electric Cracking)
Nadine Kool
Program Officer (Fascinating, Drying & Dewatering)
Lia Bouma
Program Administration Coordinator
Inez Augustijn
Personal Assistant
Sascha Kersten
Program Director (LTP)
Tjeerd Jongsma
Managing Director
Frank van Ooijen
Consultant Corporate Communications
Carol Xiao
Director of Business Development
Andreas ten Cate
Program Director (Hydrogen, Tekenkamer van de Industrie)
Antonie de Haas
Program Officer (Circular Carbon, Digitalisation)
Marta Konopinska
Program Officer (Circular Plastics, Industry 4.0)
Jolanda Duits
Finance Officer
Richard Rikken
Finance Manager
Kees Biesheuvel
Program Director (Circular Carbon)
Gerda van Eck
Strategic Advisor (Fascinating)
Jan Sikkema
Program Director (Fascinating)
Irene ten Dam
Program Manager (Circular Carbon, Separations for Circularity)
Klaartje Rietkerken
Director of Operations
Boelo Schuur
Program Director (Separations for Circularity)
Agata van Oosten
Program Manager (Heat, Fascinating)
Ton Hulsebos
Patent Attorney & Legal Officer
Paul de Vos
Program Director (Fascinating)
Hans van ‘t Noordende
Principal Expert
Eelkje Oldenburger
Program Director (Fascinating)
Gijs Tubben
Program Officer (Ammonia, Separations for Circularity)
Myrèse Manshanden
Office Manager
Peter de Jong
Program Director (Fascinating, Drying and Dewatering, Mild Fractionation for Food)
Franka Wijnbergen
Content Specialist
Rob Stevens
Program Director (Ammonia)
Geoffrey Schouten
Program Manager (Circular Plastics, Tekenkamer van de Industrie)
Annita Westenbroek
Program Director (Heat)
Anne van der Zwaan
Program Manager (Drying and Dewatering, Mild Fractionation for Food)
Gemma Steeman
Manager Online Communications
Bram Qualm
Program Director (Fascinating)
Siu Fai Au
Program Manager (Hydrogen)
Ronald Korstanje
Program Director (Circular Plastics)
Our core team is supported by a Supervisory Board and an Academic Advisory Board.
Supervisory Board
The ISPT Supervisory Board consists of appointed representatives of ISPT participants from the process industry, academic partners and SME’s. It supervises the ISPT managing board and provides advice and counsel.
Rob Mudde
TU Delft
Kirsten Steinbusch
DAB
Jurgen Hoekstra
BASF
Academic Advisory Board
The ISPT Academic Advisory Board guarantees the scientific quality of the activities and programs of ISPT. It consists of professors and academic representatives related to ISPT.
Prof. dr. ir. RM (Remko) Boom
Wageningen University & Research
Prof. dr. ir. R. (Ruud) van Ommen
TU Delft
Chair, Prof. dr. ir. S.R.A. (Sascha) Kersten
University of Twente
Prof. dr. ir. H.J. (Erik) Heeres
University of Groningen
Klaartje Rietkerken
Director of Operations
Annita Westenbroek
Program Director (Heat)
Andreas ten Cate
Program Director (Hydrogen, Tekenkamer van de Industrie)
Tjeerd Jongsma
Managing Director
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How best to treat industrial salt waste streams innovatively and economically
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The Dutch climate agreement on industry
The Dutch climate agreement was presented on June 28, 2019. The Netherlands is committed to a pioneering role within the European Union and beyond. We are not going to do...
Developing fundamental insights into deep eutectic mixtures
Research on deep eutectic mixtures can predict the liquid window of 22 new mixtures, which is essential for new designer solvents.
Understanding and improving separation based on affinity
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Invitation: matching brine producers with users of recovered materials
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PRIDES: the next step in sustainable paper pulping
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Meet your match for salt recovery and reuse
Primary source salts can increasingly be replaced by second generation salts that have just as much value, as shown in the ZERO BRINE project. It’s time to take the hurdles...
ArcelorMittal and Dow Benelux start trials separating CO2 and CO from steel gas
March 18, 2019 ISPT partners ArcelorMittal and Dow Benelux will start trials with a new pilot installation built on the ArcelorMittal company site in Ghent that will separate carbon dioxide...
The CirBind-project: Scaling up the bioresin binder GX to replace toxic binders
Many construction materials such as wood panels contain toxic binders. These binders are persistant pollutants and carcinogenic as they are made of the hazardous formaldehyde-based polymer resins. There is a...
Paper waste as building block for the circular economy
Cell-U-Value project shows how industry can become more carbon neutral. ISPT launched a new project to produce valuable chemicals from paper waste. The Cell-U-Value project will run until October 2022...
Online Brine Platform Boosts Circular Economy Solutions for Process Industries
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From wasting valuable resources to a ‘zero discharge’ closed waste water cycle
The Eurydice Project The ‘waste’ in ‘wastewater’ actually contains quite a few valuable resources. Domestic wastewater streams are already treated to recover components like Phosphorus, Nitrogen and cellulose. From drinking...
Towards more sustainable pulping with Deep Eutectic Solvents
Today, at a special conference organised as part of the Paper and Beyond 2018 event in Brussels, the first phase of the PROVIDES project was officially completed. PROVIDES, which stands...
Fine Biofuels: biomass-efficiency by regional pellets from residue streams
This project saves energy for bio-energy boilers because of the increased quality of burned biomass.
New business matchmaking service for brine producers and users
Demonstration workshops at industrial cluster locations ZERO BRINE is a European project that aims to recover and re-use salt and water from brine streams containing organics that result from several...
Innovatieprogramma’s van ISPT spelen centrale rol bij CO2-vrije industrie
Nieuwe innovaties zullen CCS overbodig maken, de industrie geld gaan opleveren en Nederland op de kaart zetten als koploper in duurzaamheid.
Zero Brine project kicked off!
View the first ZeroBrine NEWSLETTER here. A new European project that aims to recover and re-use salt and water from brine streams containing organics that result from several different industrial...
Chemistry contributes to a circular Dutch Economy by 2050
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Steel industry can deliver the raw material for the chemical industry
Breaking research in ‘CORESYM’ report reveals potential for symbiosis between chemical and steel industries Key findings show re-use of waste gas from steel industry can lead to drastic reduction in European...