The CIRMET Team

Prof. Dr. Koen Binnemans

Principal Investigator (ERC grantee)

Professor of chemistry, member of the KU Leuven Institute for Sustainable Metals and Minerals (SIM²)
Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven (Belgium)

Liuba Lukina

Project coordinator

Clément Laskar

Postdoc, iron recovery in solvent extraction

Femke Derison

PhD student, molecular thermodynamics

Rayco Lommelen

PhD, thermodynamic calculations

Rodolfo Marín Rivera

PhD, SX-assisted precipitations of metal carbonates

Stijn Raiguel

PhD, synthesis of extractants

Peter Tom Jones

Valorization manager

CIRMET received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme: Grant Agreement 101093943 — Circular hydrometallurgy for energy-transition metals (CIRMET).