dr.ir. JE (Jouke) Dykstra

Associate professor electro-interfacial phenomena in porous media-based water technologies
Environmental Technology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

I have a strong interest in physical-chemical water treatment processes for water reuse and drinking water treatment, with a focus on electrochemical, membrane-based, and adsorption technologies. My research is primarily on the development of novel physics-based theory to describe coupled processes in these technologies. I use these theoretical models to identify and overcome process limitations. My key scientific interests include I) ion and electron transport in membranes and porous electrodes, and II) interfacial phenomena in (nano)porous materials.

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Research projects: electrochemical water polishing

• Electrodialysis for ion-selective separations in the food industry
• Electrodialysis towards ion-selective separations
• Chemically modified carbon electrodes for electrochemical separation processes.

Research projects: electro-interfacial of organic molecules in porous media-based water technology

• Membrane-based micropollutant removal - mechanistic understanding
• Towards mechanistic understanding of the interactions between per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and adsorption materials in drinking water treatment  
• Modeling dynamically operated biological activated carbon filters.

Education

• Environmental Electrochemical Engineering (ETE35306)
• Colloid Chemistry (XWT32305)
• BSc Thesis Environmental Technology Part 1 (ETE80903)

Other activities

• Secretary of the International working group on Capacitive Deionization and Electrosorption (http://www.cdi-electrosorption.org)
• Working group member of the Physics of Membrane Processes working group (http://www.physicsofmembranes.org)
• Working group member of the Elektrochemie working group in The Netherlands and Belgium.