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J.A. Wood (Jeffery)

Associate Professor

About Me

I received my PhD  (2012) in Chemical Engineering from Queen's University at Kingston (Canada) with a dissertation relating to the use of spatially non-uniform electric fields for colloidal assembly. After graduation, I worked as an NSERC industrial postdoctoral fellow at Greenfield Specialty Alcohols/The University of Western Ontario. In September 2014, I joined the Soft Matter, Fluidics and Interfaces (SFI) group at the University of Twente where my current research interests are related to connecting the fundamentals of ion and related transport phenomena to electric-driven processes (electrodialysis/electrochemical conversions), developing hybrid unit operations/processes, solid/liquid filtration processes and using external fields to control colloidal matter.


Expertise

Engineering & Materials Science
Electrodialysis
Graphene
Ions
Membranes
Chemistry
Electric Field
Electrodialysis
Flow
Physics & Astronomy
Electrokinetics

Research

My current research interests relate to the following main areas:

  • Ion and Related Transport Phenomena in Electric-Driven Processes
  • Hybrid Unit Operation Design and Practice
  • Solid-Liquid Filtration 
  • Process Design for Recovery of Valuable (Charged) Components
  • External Fields to Control Colloidal Matter

In order to investigate these topics, typically a combination of experiments, theoretical analysis and numerical simulations are used. This research usually involves experiments in micro to millifluidic scales, with the aim to provide more insight into processes by quantifying transport at these length-scales. These insights and findings are then translated to larger scale applications in my research team and with various collaborators

 

Publications

Recent
Akdeniz, B. (2024). Particles in Gradients Combining Diffusiophoresis and Diffusio-osmosis. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036560771
Paul, A. M. S. (2023). Blending the boundaries: Enhancing ion transport with electrokinetics. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036558068
Wiegerinck, H. T. M., Kersten, R. , & Wood, J. A. (2023). Influence of Charge Regulation on the Performance of Shock Electrodialysis. Industrial & engineering chemistry research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.2c03874
Wiegerinck, H. T. M., Kersten, R. , & Wood, J. (2022). The Influence of Charge Regulation on the Performance of Shock Electrodialysis. Poster session presented at NMG/BMG/DGMT Symposium en Posterdag 2022, Ghent, Belgium.
Ashaju, A. A. (2021). Electrocatalytic reaction driven flow. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036552301
Ghosh, M., Junker, M. A., Van Lent, R. T. M., Madauß, L., Schleberger, M., Lebius, H., Benyagoub, A. , Wood, J. A. , & Lammertink, R. G. H. (2021). Charge Regulation at a Nanoporous Two-Dimensional Interface. ACS Omega, 6(4), 2487-2493. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.0c03958
De Santis, M. M., Alsafadi, H. N. , Tas, S., Bölükbas, D. A., Prithiviraj, S., Da Silva, I. A. N., Mittendorfer, M., Ota, C., Stegmayr, J., Daoud, F., Königshoff, M., Swärd, K. , Wood, J. A., Tassieri, M., Bourgine, P. E., Lindstedt, S., Mohlin, S., & Wagner, D. E. (2021). Extracellular-Matrix-Reinforced Bioinks for 3D Bioprinting Human Tissue. Advanced materials, 33(3), Article 2005476. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202005476
Nikolay, A. , de Grooth, J., Genzel, Y. , Wood, J. A., & Reichl, U. (2020). Virus harvesting in perfusion culture: Choosing the right type of hollow fiber membrane. Biotechnology and bioengineering, 117(10), 3040-3052. https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.27470

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Education

Currently, I teach or contribute to courses involving Colloid and Interface Science, Ion Transport in Fluids and Statistics

Affiliated Study Programmes

Bachelor

Master

Courses Academic Year  2023/2024

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
 

Courses Academic Year  2022/2023

Contact Details

Visiting Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Science and Technology
Horst Complex (building no. 20), room ME323
De Horst 2
7522LW  Enschede
The Netherlands

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Mailing Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Science and Technology
Horst Complex  ME323
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands