Rotterdam, Netherlands · MSc Industrial Ecology
Mechanical engineering background. Currently studying how industrial systems can transition toward sustainability — energy, materials, institutions.
About
Before the MSc I worked in gas turbine efficiency — where I developed an instinct for system-level optimisation at the component level. The Industrial Ecology programme has pushed that instinct outward: from components to industrial systems, and from optimisation to transition.
My thesis interest is in the life-cycle environmental performance of hydrogen-based fuels and the industrial systems around them: how electricity supply, CO₂ sourcing and exchanges between plants change the result, and how robust it stays under uncertainty.
I'm open to internships and part-time technical roles in energy, sustainability consulting, maritime, or chemicals where an engineering background and a systems lens are useful.
Projects
Saba Island 100% Renewable Transition
Group project (4 people). Individual contributions: built the RAMP stochastic demand model from scratch (50 Monte Carlo runs, 5 user categories, 9,003 MWh/yr median); independently corrected and ran the Calliope energy optimisation model (4.72 MW solar, 0.577 MW wind, 9.8 MWh battery); caught a capacity mismatch between Calliope outputs and the financial model before submission. Full system stress-tested against a 5-day hurricane blackout scenario.
RECLAIM × Zorluteks — Circular Retrofit Assessment
Assessed long-term viability of a digital circular retrofit strategy for a Turkish textile manufacturer. Contributed risk framework and three commercialisation routes including sustainability-linked finance.
PolyCycle Park — Industrial Symbiosis Modelling
Group project (5 students), Port of Antwerp petrochemical park, Feb–Jun 2026. My contributions: stakeholder analysis, Sankey-based system integration, energy analysis of the EO/EG plant, the full-park Linny-R energy and material balance model, and a multilayer network analysis of the park. The group's priority intervention, a CHP utility-hub retrofit led by a teammate, was estimated to avoid about 651 tCO₂/yr. Based on literature values and simplified balances; LCA and price/policy uncertainty were outside the scope.
Hydrogen LCA — Green (PEM) vs Grey (SMR)
Course project (LCA Practice & Reporting, Leiden). Cradle-to-grave attributional LCA to ISO 14040/44, comparing green hydrogen from PEM electrolysis with grey hydrogen from steam methane reforming, with space heating in Dutch homes as the end use (boiler manufacturing, heat production, boiler end of life). Built in openLCA with ecoinvent v3.11, with economic allocation for the electrolysis oxygen co-product and an electricity-source sensitivity (offshore wind vs Dutch grid mix). I intend to build on this in my MSc thesis on hydrogen infrastructure for sustainable aviation fuel.
Climate & Carbon Modelling — Canada & Global
Two-part analysis: (1) Canada temperature trend analysis using Berkeley Earth data — polar amplification, radiative forcing, and 2050 projection with R²=0.89 regression. (2) Six-pool dynamic carbon model (atmosphere, land, ocean) simulating BAU vs mitigation scenarios to 2100 using a Runge–Kutta solver; sensitivity analysis identified ocean uptake rate as dominant uncertainty (±15%).
Skills
Modelling
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Contact
Open to internship and part-time opportunities in energy, sustainability, and related technical fields.