Maarten Rubens - Polymer Reaction Design Group

Office: Building 23, Level 2, Room 216

+61 990 55653
maarten.rubens@monash.edu

maarten.rubens@uhasselt.be

Brief Curriculum Vitae

Since 01/2018	Visiting Researcher, School of Chemistry, Monash University, Melbourne (Australia).
Since 01/2017 10/2016- 12/2016	PhD Student, (SB PhD fellow at FWO), "Multistep continuous flow photoreactors for high-precision polymer design", Polymer Reaction Design Group, Prof dr. Tanja Junkers, Hasselt University, Hasselt (Belgium). PhD Student (BOF-Scholarship), "Multistep continuous flow photoreactors for high-precision polymer design", Polymer Reaction Design Group, Prof dr. Tanja Junkers, Hasselt University, Hasselt (Belgium).
09/2014 - 07/2016	Master in Chemical Engineering: Molecular Engineering - Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven (Netherlands). Master Dissertation: "Biomolecule selective modification via photoredox catalysis in continuous flow", Dr. T. Noël, Micro Flow Chemistry and Process Technology, Netherlands. Industrial Internship (4 months): R&D group Umicore - Analytical Compentence Center (ACC), Olen (Belgium)
09/2011 - 07/2014	Bachelor in Chemistry, Hasselt University, Hasselt (Belgium). Bachelor Dissertation: "Synthesis of tetragonal BaTiO₃ nanoparticles for SHG imaging". Prof. dr. Marlies van Bael, Institute for Materials Research, Belgium
09/2005 - 06/2011	Secondary School (ASO, Science-Math), Lommel (Belgium)

Publications

(4)	Photo-induced ring-closure via a looped flow reactor. E. Baeten, M. Rubens, W. Killian, C. Barner-Kowollik ,T. Junkers, React. Chem. Eng. 2017, 2, 826 - 829.
(3)	Visible Light-Induced Iniferter Polymerization of Methacrylates Enhanced by Continuous Flow. M. Rubens, P. Latsrisaeng,T. Junkers, Polym. Chem. 2017, 8, 6496 - 6505. (see Journal Cover Page)
(2)	Visible Light-Mediated Selective Arylation of Cysteine in Batch and Flow C. Bottecchia, M. Rubens, S. Gunnoo, V. Hessel, A. Madder, T. Noel, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 12702.

(1)	The Kinetics of n-Butyl Acrylate Radical Polymerization Revealed in a Single Experiment by Real Time On-line Mass Spectrometry Monitoring
	J. J. Haven, N. Zaquen, M. Rubens, T. Junkers, Macromol. React. 2017, 11. (see Journal Cover Page)

Abstract and Conference Presentations

Posters:

(1)	"Visible Light-Induced Iniferter Polymerization of Methacrylates Enhanced by Continuous Flow" Annual Meeting of the Belgian Polymer Group 2017, May 2017, Houffalize (Belgium)