Prof. Lital Alfonta
Biological and related sciences, Physical sciences, Bioelectrochemistry, Synthetic Biology, Chemical Biology
Physical sciences
Physics of plasmas; Chemical kinetics and thermodynamics; (Molecular) reaction dynamics: Computational chemistry and chemical modelling
Winter Plasma Award, in recognition for “Outstanding contributions in the field of laser ablation modeling”, 2009
Lester Strock Award of the New England Section of Society for Applied Spectroscopy, in recognition for “Outstanding contributions in the areas of plasma and surface modeling”, 2008
Prize “Robert Oppenheimer Rosa Blanckaert” of the Research Council of the University of Antwerp, 2004
Prize “The Outstanding Young Persons” of the “Youth Chamber Belgium”, in the category “Sciences, Technology and Environment”, 2004
Alumni Prize of the “Belgian-American Educational Foundation” (competition with all Belgian researchers born after 1967), 2003
Prize of the “Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten” in Exact Sciences (competition with all Flemish researchers born after 1960), 2001
Prize of the “Association Francophone de Spectrométrie de Masse des Solides”, 1999
Prize of the Research Council of the University of Antwerp, in “Exact Sciences”, 1998
Bunsen-Kirchhoff-Prize of the “Deutscher Arbeitskreis für Angewandte Spektroskopie”, Munchen, Germany, 1998
DSM-prize for Chemistry and Technology: First prize for Flanders, 1996
Spectrochimica Acta Atomic Spectroscopy Award, 1995, 1997, 2003
Dutch, English
Gas discharge plasmas and their applications. A. Bogaerts, E. Neyts, R. Gijbels and J.J.A.M. van der Mullen, Spectrochim. Acta Part B, 57, 609-658 (2002) (highly cited review paper). IF: 2.695
Catalyzed growth of carbon nanotube with definable chirality by hybrid molecular dynamics – force-biased Monte Carlo simulations. E. C. Neyts, Y. Shibuta, A. C. T. van Duin and A. Bogaerts, ACS Nano, 4, 6665-6672 (2010). IF: 11.421
Changing chirality during single-walled carbon nanotube growth: a reactive molecular dynamics / Monte Carlo study. E.C. Neyts, A.C.T. van Duin and A. Bogaerts, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133, 17225-17231 (2011). IF: 9.907
Insights in the plasma-assisted growth of carbon nanotubes through atomic scale simulations: Effect of electric field. E.C. Neyts, A.C.T. van Duin and A. Bogaerts, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134, 1256-1260 (2012). IF: 10.677
Defect healing and enhanced nucleation of carbon nanotubes by low-energy ion impact. E.C. Neyts, K. Ostrikov, Z.J. Han, S. Kumar, A.C.T. van Duin and A. Bogaerts, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 065501 (2013) (5 pages). IF: 7.728
CO2 splitting in a dielectric barrier discharge plasma: a combined experimental and computational study. R. Aerts, W. Somers and A. Bogaerts, ChemSusChem. 8, 702-716 (2015). IF: 7.116
Plasma catalysis: Synergistic effects at the nanoscale. E.C. Neyts, K. Ostrikov, M.K. Sunkara and A. Bogaerts, Chem. Rev. 115, 13408-13446 (2015). IF: 37.369
Atomic scale simulations of carbon nanotube nucleation from hydrocarbon precursors. U. Khalilov, A. Bogaerts and E.C. Neyts, Nature Commun. 6: 10306 (2015) (7 pages). IF: 11.329
Effect of lipid peroxidation on membrane permeability of cancer and normal cells subjected to oxidative stress. J. Van der Paal, E.C. Neyts, C.C.W. Verlackt and A. Bogaerts, Chem. Sci. 7, 489-498 (2016). IF: 9.144
CO2 conversion in a dielectric barrier discharge plasma: N2 in the mix as helping hand of problematic impurity? R. Snoeckx, S. Heijkers, K. Van Wesenbeeck, S. Lenaerts and A. Bogaerts, Energy & Environm. Sci. 9, 999-1011 (2016). IF: 25.427
Editor of Spectrochimica Acta Part B, responsible for the review papers, since 2002
Member of the Editorial Board of Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, since 2016
Member of the Editorial Board of Plasma Processes and Polymers, since 2013
Member of the Advisory Board of Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, since 2008
Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2007 – 2013
Member of the Editorial Board of Spectrochimica Act Part B, since 2000
Plasma Processes and Polymers: Numerical modeling of low-temperature plasmas for various applications (2 double issues, Jan-Feb and April-May 2017
Plasma Processes and Polymers: Plasma Conversion, June 2017
Plasma Processes and Polymers: Plasma & Cancer, 2016
Plasma Chemistry and Plasmas Processes: International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry 2016
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics: Fundamentals on Plasma-Surface Interactions 2014
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics: Plasma modeling 2009
Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale, 2006
• Talanta: Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale, 2006
Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry: Glow Discharge Spectroscopy, 2003
Advisory Board of the “Leibniz-Institut für Plasmaforschung und Technologie e.V. Greifswald”, since 2016
Quantemol DataBase (QDB) Project Advisory Board, since 2016
Board of Directors of the International Plasma Chemistry Society, since 2014
Solvay Local Scientific Committee for Chemistry, since 2013
Panel W&T2 (“physics”) of the FW,; 2010 – 2015
Panel “physique” of the “Fond National de la Recherche Scientifique” (FNRS), 2007 – 2010
Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts, since 2012
Member of the Academia Europaea, since 2011
Married, mother of 3 children
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Biological and related sciences, Physical sciences, Bioelectrochemistry, Synthetic Biology, Chemical Biology
Physical sciences, Biopolymers, Fiber science
Physical sciences, Surface and interface science, (photo)catalysis and nanophotonics
Physical sciences