Arjaan Kooijman

Arjaan Kooijman has extensive work experience in various roles and industries. Arjaan began their career as a student assistant at TU Delft, where they helped develop and produce casings for a gas flow meter. Arjaan then became a board member of Studievereniging Nucleus and also served on the founding committee.

In 2015, Arjaan completed an internship at The University of Nottingham, where they focused on designing a synthesis route for adding chiral and polar solubilizing peripheral groups to a red dye called thiophene diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP). Arjaan conducted research on the effects of introducing chirality in the crystal structure and determined the electrochemical properties of the product.

From 2017 to 2020, Arjaan worked part-time as an Assistant Inspector at Nederlandse Voedsel en Warenautoriteit (NVWA). In this role, they assisted with inspections and regulatory compliance in the food and goods industry.

In 2020, Arjaan joined TNO as a Junior Researcher in the research group for Sustainable Process & Energy Systems. Their responsibilities included building, commissioning, and operating small process plants used in the synthesis of jet fuels. Arjaan worked with various pressurized reactors, such as fixed bed, slurry, and membrane reactors.

Currently, Arjaan is working as a Commissioning and Start Up Engineer at Battolyser Systems, starting in 2022.

Arjaan Kooijman completed a Bachelor's Degree in Organic Synthesis at Hogeschool Leiden from 2012 to 2016. After that, from 2016 to 2017, they pursued a Premaster's program in Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam. Later, from 2017 to 2019, Arjaan completed their Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Chemistry at the same university.