- Research Staff
- Prof. David Mecerreyes
- Prof. José M. Asua
- 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
- Dr. Aitor Barquero Salaberria
- Prof. Maria Forsyth
- Prof. María Paulis
- Prof. Radmila Tomovska
- Dr. Nerea Casado
- Prof. Haritz Sardon
- Prof. Timothy Edward Long
- Dr. Agurtzane Mugica
- Dr. Agustin Etxeberria
- Dr. Manoli Zubitur
- Dr. Ainhoa Lejardi
- Dr. Emiliano Meaurio
- Prof. Nicholas Ballard
- Prof. Aitor Larrañaga
- Dr. Ester Zuza
- Prof. Fernando Ruipérez
- Dr. Jone Muñoz
- Dr. Leire Sangroniz
- Prof. Ana Beloqui Elizazu
- Prof. Sandra Camarero Espinosa
- Dr. Robert Aguirresarobe
- Dr. Ainara Sangroniz Agudo
- Prof. Irune Villaluenga
- Dr. Matias Luis Picchio
- Prof. Miren Aguirre
- Prof. Gonzalo Guerrica-echevarria
- Dr. Nora Aramburu Ocariz
- Dr Itxaso Calafel Martinez
- Dr. Marta Ximenis
- Dr. Edurne González
- Dr. Daniele Mantione
- Dr. Danila Merino
- Dr. Fernando Vidal Peña
- Dr. Clara Garcia Astrain
- Support Staff
- Postdoctoral Researchers
- Dr. M. Ali Aboudzadeh
- Dr. Shaghayegh Hamzehlou
- Dr. Jorge Pascual Mielgo
- Dr. Ricardo Arpad Pérez Camargo
- Dr. Iliane Rafaniello
- Dr. Mikel Irigoyen
- Dr. Eider Matxinandiarena
- Dr. Justine Elgoyhen
- Dr. Elena Gabirondo Amenabar
- Dr. Sumi Murali Nair
- Dr. Ion Olazabal
- Dr. Xabier Lopez de Pariza
- Dr. María Virginia Candal Pazos
- Dr.Naroa López Larrea
- Dr. Edurne Gaston Estanga
- Dr. Jacopo Teotonico
- Dr. Usue Aspiazu Iturbe
- Dr. Miguel Martín Arroyo
- Dr. Mª Soledad Orellano
- Dr. Sharon Monaci
- Dr. Ana Clara Rolandi
- Dr. Yogesh Kumar Maurya
- Dr. Lucas Polo da Fonseca
- Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad
- Dr. Gabriele Lingua
- Dr. Miguel Angel Medel Miranda
- Dr. Upashi Goswami
- Dr. Martin Jakubec
- Dr. Luis Alberto Loaeza Diaz
- Dr. Vincent Monnier
- Dr. Krishan Kumar
- Dr. Sima Lashkari
- Dr. Sergio Ramirez Barroso
- Dr. Maria del Carmen Mañas Torres
- Dr. Maria Barcenilla Castellano
- Dr. Ilaria Abdel Aziz
- Dr. Gabriel Perli
- Dr. Oier Pajuelo Corral
- Dr. Federico Begato
- Dr. Javier Martínez Sabando
- Dr. Juan Luis Vázquez Rodríguez
- Dr. Maximiliano Agazzi
- Dr. Giuliana Mosconi
- Dr. Nery Gabriela Martha Aguilar
- Dr. Louise Cecile Mathilde Breloy
- Dr. Martino Airoldi
- Dr. Manuel Eduardo Martinez
- Dr. Letizia Molteni
- Dr. Priyank Kumar Sharma
- Dr. Izabela Kurowska
- Dr. Tatiana Guendulain
- Dr. Hector Lafuente
- Dr. Francesca Perin
- PhD Students
- Maria Angela Motta
- Oliver Wolfgang Etzold
- Mario Iván Peñas Núñez
- Iulia Caraseva
- Wichsuda Tangsongcharoen
- Laura Ballester Bayarri
- Sara Beldarrain
- Ainhoa Fernández Tena
- Roció López Domene
- Ana Trajcheva
- Giulia Vozzolo
- Aleksandar Sladojevic
- Yilong Liao
- Xabier Larrañaga Etxabe
- Emelin Yhoany Luna Barrios
- Marcos Heredero Iborra
- Sergio Galve Lahoz
- Carlos E. Villacis Segovia
- Kevin U. Palma Lemus
- Marco Caliari
- Mohammad Raef
- Ainhoa Maiz Iginitz
- Sandra Ramos Díez
- Pauline Bron
- Garazi Larrañaga Jaurrieta
- Alessandra Stevens
- Alister Josu Urain Aird
- Juan Felipe Hincapie
- Paula Fanlo Pujol
- Claire Morand
- Seyedeh Maliheh Razavi Esfali
- Ane Olazabal
- Kiarash Farajzadehahary
- 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
- Sara Rubio Murillo
- Aritz Lamas Núñez
- Sergio Javier Peñas Núñez
- Leire San José Peraita
- Cecile Moussard
- Asier Panfilo Elechiguerra
- Isabel del Barrio Gómez
- Jon Arrizabalaga Legarra
- Pegah Sanjarnia
- Jackeline Soto Cruz
- Amirreza Mansoori-Kermani
- Temiloluwa Emmanuel Amoo
- Alodi Pascal Ruiz de Eloizaga
- Marc Frederic Malter
- Jaya Baranwal
- Rakesh Kumar Maji
- Unai Calvo Castro
- Malavika Raj
- Ane Llucia Salvador
- Fateme Shariatikia
- Alice Marchand
- Oihane Varela
- Adrian Moron Blanco
- Aitor Ontoria
- Sara González González
- Itziar Insua
- Md Shafi Alam
- Pablo López Matanza
- Elena Righini
- Iosu Burgaña Revert
- Akshaya Maria Prasad
- Hayam Abdelgawad
- Sergio Valverde-Durán
- Ane Urigoitia
- Julian Fuentes
- Martin Trapero Sempere
- Idoia Alayeto Martínez
- Iker Varona
- Asier de Santos Larrañaga
- Hegoi Urretabizkaia Auzmendi
- Ander Leiza Balda
- Ekta Yadav
- Alessandra Bernardi
- Ayesha Zafar
- Beatriz Ferrer
- Haifa Rimani
- Javier Garcia
- Zhuoting Ji
- Ana Maria Muñoz
- Oihan Lamarins
- Yanne Darile Yaimyse Amassoka Bayanga
- Johan Garcia
- Dhiraj Mishra
- Irene Bertolo
- Paula Garcia
- Lucia Suarez Menendez
- Estefano Giuzio
- Amirhossein Enayati-Gerdroodbar
- Giza Baliabide Estrategia– HRS4R
Prof. Thomas Schäfer
Prof. Thomas Schäfer
Coordinator
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.