Maarten Rubens - Polymer Reaction Design Group

Office: G1.84

+32 (11) 26 8325

maarten.rubens@uhasselt.be

Brief Curriculum Vitae

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

(3)	Visible Light-Induced Iniferter Polymerization of Methacrylates Enhanced by Continuous Flow. M. Rubens, P. Latsrisaeng,T. Junkers, Polym. Chem. 2017
(2)	Visible Light-Mediated Selective Arylation of Cysteine in Batch and Flow C. Bottecchia, M. Rubens, S. Gunnoo, V. Hessel, A. Madder, T. Noel, Angewandte Chemie 2017.

(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, 1700016. (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)