- 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. Ronen Zangi
- Prof. Maria Forsyth
- Prof. María Paulis
- Prof. Radmila Tomovska
- Dr. Haritz Sardon
- Prof. Agurtzane Mugica
- Prof. Amaia Butrón
- Prof. Agustin Etxeberria
- Prof. Manoli Zubitur
- Dr. Ainhoa Lejardi
- Dr. Emiliano Meaurio
- Dr. Nicholas Ballard
- Dr. Aitor Larrañaga
- Dr. Ester Zuza
- Dr. Jaime Martín
- Dr. Miren Aguirre
- Dr. Fernando Ruipérez
- Dr. Jone Muñoz
- Dr. Ana Beloqui Elizazu
- Dr. Sandra Camarero Espinosa
- Dr. Robert Hernández
- Dr. Irune Villaluenga
- Support Staff
- Postdoctoral Researchers
- Dr. Aitor Barquero Salaberria
- Dr. Andere Basterretxea
- Dr. Shaghayegh Hamzehlou
- Dr. Nerea Casado
- Dr. Silvia Collavini
- Dr. Marta Martínez-Abadía
- Dr. Luca Porcarelli
- Dr. Alberto Riaño
- Dr. Coralie Jehanno
- Dr. Maryam Safari
- Dr. Edurne González
- Dr. Leire Sangroniz
- Dr. Rajeev K. Dubey
- Dr. Nikolaos Politakos
- Dr. Nuria Alegret Ramon
- Dr. Liliana C. Tomé
- Dr. Neha Tiwary
- Dr. Nicolas Jean-Christopher Goujon
- Dr. Eva Sánchez Rexach
- Dr. Edgar Gutiérrez Fernández
- Dr. Oihane Llorente Zabala
- Dr. Saibal Bera
- Dr. Gregorio Guzman Gonzalez
- Dr. Ainara Sangroniz Agudo
- Dr. María Virginia Candal Pazos
- Dr. Antonela Gallastegui
- Dr. Satyajit Das
- Dr. Edurne Gaston Estanga
- Dr. Maria Valle Alvarez
- Dr. Leire Iturriaga Oñarte-Echevarria
- Dr. Tobias Kuhnt
- Dr. Daniel Sanchez de Alcazar
- Dr. Miryam Criado González
- PhD Students
- Hegoi Amestoy
- Sebastian M. Dron
- Alvaro Gómez López
- Javier Mateos
- Beñat Olave
- Bertha T. Pérez
- Iliane Rafaniello
- Naroa Sadaba
- Aurélie Destephen
- Sara Marina Barbier
- Nerea Jiménez
- Fermín Elizalde
- Mikel Irigoyen
- Maialen Argaiz
- Jorge Luis Olmedo
- Eider Matxinandiarena
- Marine Lechartier
- Iranzu Barbarin
- Fabian Wenzel
- Marta Alvarez
- Hesham Ahmed Mostafa Abdeldaim
- Maialen Galdeano Fraile
- Félix Hernández Culebras
- Elisabet de Bolòs Sánchez
- David Esporrín Ubieto
- Sheraz Tariq
- Huiyi Wang
- Justine Elgoyhen
- Nicolás María Muñoz
- Adrián Pérez López
- Elena Gabirondo Amenabar
- Soline Vauthier
- Rafael del Olmo Martínez
- Edurne Marín
- Diulia Caroline Quites Rodrigues
- 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
- Jinxiu Zhou
- Ion Olazabal
- Mario Iván Peñas Núñez
- Carlos Bello Alvarez
- Xabier Lopez de Pariza
- Iulia Caraseva
- Oroitz Sanchez
- Elissabetta Zucatti
- Maria Regato Herbella
- Valentina Pirela Wilhelm
- Richard Schönlein
- Mohammed el Amine Hanifa
- Thibault Castagnet
- Ainara Aguirre Mikelarena
- Natalia Stankiewicz
- Jakes Udabe Sanchez
- Wichsuda Tangsongcharoen
- Ousmane Camara
- Kyle Douglas Van Gordon
- Ana Aguzin
- Pierre Luca Stigliano
- Nora Almandoz Garmendia
- Laura Ballester Bayarri
- Antton Ibarbia Iribar
- Tijs Lap
- Sara Pavo Beldarrain
- Ander González de Txabarri
- Ainhoa Fernández Tena
- Roció López Domene
- Tansu Abbasoglu
- Ana Trajcheva
- Giulia Vozzolo
- Ulyana Semenenko
- Aleksandar Sladojevic
- Jacopo Teotonico
- Usue Aspiazu Iturbe
- Bruno Espuche
- Pablo Muñumer Camacho
- Estrategía de Recursos Humanos – HRS4R
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.
Grupo en Nanobioseparación