H Terryn

Biography

"Herman Terryn is part-time professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, within the research group Corrosion Technology and Electrochemistry (CTE) at TU-Delft following up research projects (on average 2 post-docs and 5 PhD’s). Currently Herman Terryn is also chairman of the research cluster “Durability of materials”, which is one of the research clusters of Materials Innovation Institute. Professor Herman Terryn is full professor within the group of Electrochemical and Surface Engineering (SURF; 55 people) in the Faculty of Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). This results in a close collaboration between SURF-VUB and CTE-TU-Delft with daily exchanges of researchers of both institutes leading to more than 100 common SCI papers. Currently he leads at VUB a top research Methusalem project (3,5 M Euro) where he works on 5 cross-linked areas in electrochemical engineering, electrochemical modelling by computational electrochemistry, corrosion technology, functional surface engineering and surface characterization, each supported by SURF staff members. He is using a multi-strategy research approach based on complementary macroscopic and local electrochemical methods, computational software for process simulation, and in-situ/ex-situ surface analytical techniques (vacuum and optical). SURF is in the unique position of having state of the art technology for all these research tools in-house. The electrochemical modelling is done in collaboration with SURF colleague Johan Deconinck. Several EU and Flemish projects have been worked out together where modelling and experimental electrochemistry was applied. He was also the founder of the series of conferences Aluminium and Surface Science and Technology. Herman Terryn won 2014 the prestigious European Federation Corrosion. In 2016 he received a Francqui chair at University of Antwerp. He was supervisor of more than 40 Ph.d’s in Brussels and Delft. "

Research Interest

Corrosion Technology and Electrochemistry