Marleen Rombouts

Dr. ir. Marleen Rombouts graduated with a master’s degree in Materials Engineering in 2001 and obtained in 2006 a PhD in Engineering Sciences at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) in the field of 3D printing. From 2006 to 2016 she worked as a researcher in the Laser Materials Processing group at VITO. In 2016 she joined VITO's Coating and Shaping Technologies group. Her areas of expertise are powder metallurgy (including 3D printing and coating) and materials development for CO₂ capture & conversion. She is responsible for the research track on CO₂ capture at VITO’s Sustainable Materials Department. She is a principal member of CAPTURE (capture-resources.be) where she is (co-)leading the CO₂ capture & separation program.