Annemie Bogaerts (born 25 October 1971) is a Belgian chemist known for her work in

plasma chemistry Gas phase ion chemistry is a field of science encompassed within both chemistry and physics. It is the science that studies ions and molecules in the gas phase, most often enabled by some form of mass spectrometry. By far the most important appli ...

, plasma-based green chemistry, which include amongst others CO₂ conversion, CH₄ conversion for H₂ synthesis or the synthesis of hydrocarbons and N₂ fixation as basis for fertilizer production, as well as for her work in

plasma medicine Plasma medicine is an emerging field that combines plasma physics, life sciences and clinical medicine. It is being studied in disinfection, healing, and cancer. Most of the research is in vitro and in animal models. It uses ionized gas (physic ...

for

cancer treatment Cancer can be treated by surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormonal therapy, targeted therapy (including immunotherapy such as monoclonal antibody therapy) and synthetic lethality, most commonly as a series of separate treatments (e.g. ...

, and the use of laser ablation to sample chemicals and form plasmas. She is a full professor of chemistry at the

University of Antwerp The University of Antwerp ( nl, Universiteit Antwerpen) is a major Belgian university located in the city of Antwerp. The official abbreviation is ''UA'', but ''UAntwerpen'' is more recently used. The University of Antwerp has about 20,000 stud ...

Education and career

Bogaerts is originally from

Wilrijk Wilrijk (; former, original spelling: ''Wilrijck'') is a district of the municipality and city of Antwerp in the Belgian province of Antwerp. Wilrijk had been a separate municipality before January 1, 1983; the enlarged municipality of Antwerp wa ...

, a district of Antwerp. She studied chemistry at the University of Antwerp, earning a master's degree there in 1993 and completing her Ph.D. in 1996. She remained at the University of Antwerp as a postdoctoral researcher, including some research stays abroad, until 2004, when she obtained a faculty position there. She has been a full professor since 2014.

Recognition

Bogaerts was elected to the

Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts ( nl, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, or KVAB) is one of an independent learned society of science and arts of the Flemish Community in Belgium. ...

in 2011, and in the same year was also elected to the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...

. She was Francqui Distinguished Research Professor (2013-2016) and is the recipient of a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant (2019-2025) on plasma-based electrification of chemical reactions, with Gabriel Centi, Volker Hessel and Evgenii Rebrov. She also obtained a prestigious ERC Proof of Concept Grant (2022). She is head of the research group PLASMANT, a large, interdisciplinary and international research group of about 50 researchers, which she built up from scratch. She is co-founder of two spin-off companies, "D-CRBN" and Optanic, based on the research of her group PLASMANT on using plasma technology for CO₂ conversion and for dry reforming of methane, respectively."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bogaerts, Annemie 1971 births Living people People from Wilrijk Belgian chemists Belgian women chemists University of Antwerp alumni Academic staff of the University of Antwerp Members of Academia Europaea