dr.ir. JE (Jouke) Dykstra

Associate professor - Electrified Interfaces in Environmental Technology

Clean water production, water reuse, and resource recovery rely on technologies that selectively separate ions and molecules from complex water streams. My research focuses on the interfacial processes that govern these separations.

I study how interactions between ions, molecules, and material surfaces determine transport, adsorption, selectivity, and chemical transformation. These processes occur in electrochemical technologies, membrane separations, adsorption systems, and ion-exchange materials, and are governed by common physical and chemical principles. By combining theory and experiments, I investigate how selectivity arises at interfaces and and how environmental complexity affects separation performance.

The goal of my research is to develop predictive descriptions of environmental separations that connect processes occurring at interfaces to the performance of full-scale technologies. This knowledge contributes to improved water treatment, water reuse, contaminant removal, and resource recovery.

In addition to leading my own research programme, I am co-lead of the NWO Perspectief programme BlueVantage and contribute to other national collaborations that bring together researchers, water utilities, companies, and public partners to address long-term challenges in water treatment and sustainable resource management.

I teach Environmental Electrochemical Engineering and Colloid Chemistry and supervise PhD candidates and MSc students working on environmental separation science.

Google Scholar

Research interests
Interfacial processes in environmental separations
Selectivity in separation processes
Electrochemical water treatment
Ion adsorption and ion exchange
Membrane-based separations
Transport phenomena and reactive transport
Physics-based and multiscale modelling
Water treatment, water reuse, and resource recovery

Expertise
Interfacial phenomena 
Environmental separation processes
Electrochemical systems
Membrane processes
Ion exchange and adsorption
Reactive transport modelling
Multiphysics modelling
Process modelling and design

Other activities
Co-program leader, BlueVantage (NWO Perspectief)
Chair, Physics of Membrane Processes
Secretary, International Working Group on Capacitive Deionization & Electrosorption
Member Scientific Advisory Board, International Electrokinetics Society
Member, Electrochemie Werkgroep Nederland & België 

• Docentencollectief (26-4-2023/31-12-2099)
  Het Docentencollectief is een organisatie voor leraren, docenten, bestuurders en overige medewerkers in het voortgezet en hoger onderwijs. ||Het Docentencollectief heeft de volgende doelstellingen:|- het bevorderen van fundamenteel wetenschappelijk debat;|- het tegengaan van de beïnvloeding van onderwijs en onderzoek door dogmatische ideologieën van welke aard dan ook;|- het bepleiten van onderwijs op locatie als een unieke en onvervangbare vorm van educatie;|- het vormen van een gemeenschap van mensen die de vorige doelstellingen onderschrijven.||Meer informatie: docentencollectief.nu