- Research Staff
- Prof. José M. Asua
- Prof. David Mecerreyes
- Prof. Aurelio Mateo-Alonso
- Prof. Jose R. Leiza
- Prof. Juan Luis Delgado
- Prof. Thomas Schäfer
- Prof. Alejandro J. Müller
- Prof. Marcelo Calderón
- Prof. Jose-Ramon Sarasua
- Prof. Maria Forsyth
- Prof. María Paulis
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- Dr. Jone Muñoz
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- Dr. Ainara Sangroniz Agudo
- Dr. Irune Villaluenga
- Dr. Miryam Criado González
- Dr. Miren Aguirre
- Dr. Gonzalo Guerrica-echevarria
- Dr. Nora Aramburu Ocariz
- Dr Itxaso Calafel Martinez
- Dr. Edurne González
- Dr. Daniele Mantione
- Prof. Timothy Edward Long
- Support Staff
- Postdoctoral Researchers
- Dr. Aitor Barquero Salaberria
- Dr. Shaghayegh Hamzehlou
- Dr. Antonio Domínguez Alfaro
- Dr. Coralie Jehanno
- Dr. Jorge Pascual Mielgo
- Dr.Iliane Rafaniello
- Dr. Naroa Sadaba
- Dr. Fermín Elizalde Iraizoz
- Dr.Jorge Luis Olmedo
- Dr. Eider Matxinandiarena
- Dr. Leire Sangroniz
- Dr. Nikolaos Politakos
- Dr. Elena Gabirondo Amenabar
- Dr. Rafael del Olmo Martínez
- Dr. Nicolas Jean-Christopher Goujon
- Dr. Oihane Llorente Zabala
- Dr. Saibal Bera
- Dr. María Virginia Candal Pazos
- Dr. Antonela Gallastegui
- Dr. Edurne Gaston Estanga
- Dr. Tobias Kuhnt
- Dr. Daniel Sanchez de Alcazar
- Dr. Miguel Martín Arroyo
- Dr. Mª Soledad Orellano
- Dr. Matias Luis PIcchio
- Dr. Daniela Minudri
- Dr. Yogesh Kumar Maurya
- Dr. Carlos A. Castor Jr.
- Dr. Lucas Polo da Fonseca
- Dr. Marta Ximenis
- Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad
- Dr. Daniela de Morais Zanata
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- Dr. Xabier Telleria Allika
- Dr. Gabriele Lingua
- Dr. Kais Dhbaibi
- Dr. Miguel Angel Medel Miranda
- Upashi Goswami
- Dr. Martin Jakubec
- Dr. Elena Romero Ben
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- Dr. Vincent Monnier
- Dr. Krishan Kumar
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- Dr. Sergio Ramirez Barroso
- Dr. Federica Santino
- Dr. Maria del Carmen Mañas Torres
- Dr. Maria Barcenilla Castellano
- Dr. Ilaria Abdel Aziz
- Dr. Iñaki Gomez Agundez
- Dr. Andoni Rodríguez López de Abetxuko
- Dr. Danila Merino
- PhD Students
- Hesham Ahmed Mostafa Abdeldaim
- Maialen Galdeano Fraile
- Félix Hernández Culebras
- Elisabet de Bolòs Sánchez
- Sheraz Tariq
- Huiyi Wang
- Justine Elgoyhen
- Adrián Pérez López
- Andrea Melissa Cabrera Espinoza
- Sumi Murali Nair
- Elvis Lopes Brito
- Mehdi Naderi
- Mauro Marongiu
- Nicolas Ramos
- Maria Rosaria Caputo
- Joaquin Almarza Gonzalez
- Maria Angela Motta
- Oliver Wolfgang Etzold
- Ion Olazabal
- Mario Iván Peñas Núñez
- Carlos Bello Alvarez
- Xabier Lopez de Pariza
- Iulia Caraseva
- Oroitz Sanchez
- Maria Regato Herbella
- Valentina Pirela Wilhelm
- Richard Schönlein
- Ainara Aguirre Mikelarena
- Natalia Stankiewicz
- Jakes Udabe Sanchez
- Wichsuda Tangsongcharoen
- Ousmane Camara
- Naroa López Larrea
- Pierre Luca Stigliano
- Laura Ballester Bayarri
- Tijs Lap
- Sara Beldarrain
- Ainhoa Fernández Tena
- Roció López Domene
- Tansu Abbasoglu
- Ana Trajcheva
- Giulia Vozzolo
- Aleksandar Sladojevic
- Jacopo Teotonico
- Usue Aspiazu Iturbe
- Bruno Espuche
- Sharon Monaci
- Yilong Liao
- Jorge S. Coba Daza
- Xabier Larrañaga Etxabe
- Emelin Yhoany Luna Barrios
- Marcos Heredero Iborra
- Sergio Galve Lahoz
- Carlos E. Villacis Segovia
- Anto Puthussery Varghese
- Kevin U. Palma Lemus
- Ana Clara Rolandi
- Irene Alonso Sampedro
- Marco Caliari
- Mohammad Raef
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- Ane Olazabal
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- Sara Martin Colomo
- Jyoti Devanand Gupta
- Monika Fidanchevska
- Mathieu Hansel Coureur
- Mario Andres Martinez Yubero
- Clara Maria Garcia Saez
- Alejandro Herranz Berzosa
- Jon Ayestaran Uriarte
- Juan Torres Rodriguez
- Jon Lopez de la Calle Zabaleta
- Junli Liu
- Yuliana Pairetti
- Alvaro del Castillo Corral
- Neda Khatami
- Silvia Cobos Ceballos
- Rajat Rai
- Marta Mestre Membrado
- Jorge Juan Marco Guimbao
- Alba Gonda Lazkano
- Marcela de Paula Ramos
- Aitor Sanchez Perez
- Sara Rubio Murillo
- Aritz Lamas Nuñez
- Sergio Javier Peñas Núñez
- Leire San José Peraita
- Cecile Moussard
- Asier Panfilo Elechiguerra
- Isabel del Barrio Gómez
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Prof. Thomas Schäfer
Ikerbasque Research Professor
Prof. Thomas Schäfer
Group Leader
Centro Joxe Mari Korta
Avenida de Tolosa, 72
20018 Donostia - San Sebastián
Spain
email: thomas.schafer@ehu.es
Tel:+34 943 018266
Education
Thomas earned his BSc from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg and MSc in Chemical Engineering with focus on Bioreactor Technology from the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg (Germany). He obtained his PhD in 2002 from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) on mass transfer phenomena in membrane separation processes. He has worked as a postgraduate and postdoctoral researcher at Wageningen University (The Netherlands), University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), IBET/Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), Università degli Studi di Siena and Università di Pisa (Italy), as well as Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain). Since October 2010, he is Ikerbasque Research Professor at POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country.
Honors and awards
He was awarded a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology in 2006 and an IDEAS Starting-Grant from the European Research Council in the first call of 2007 ("MATRIX").
Research
Thomas's multi-disciplinary research group focuses on mixed-matrix and stimuli-responsive membranes, as well as related interfacial phenomena. The research relies on combining new developments in chemistry and biological as well as materials sciences with traditional membrane separation technology in order to form new generations of membranes with applications in downstream processing, water treatment, sensors, monitoring, biomedicine and controlled delivery.
A particular interest exists in understanding the related interactions and mass transport phenomena on a molecular level. For this reason, the group has also a strong interest in studying emerging non-invasive methods for characterizing surface phenomena related to membrane applications, e.g., fouling, as well as elucidating conformational changes related to molecular recognition processes occurring with biomolecules.
NanoBioSeparations Group