We perform cutting-edge research in the various areas of separation science. Key research fields are adsorption and the advanced surface and textural characterization of nanoporous materials. Another focus is gas storage (e.g. hydrogen, carbon dioxide, methane). A main goal is to build a link between adsorption properties and characteristics of adsorbents with applications such as gas and energy storage, separation and heterogeneous catalysis. Another major research area is systematic process desigh. Experimental characterization is combined with state-of-the-art theoretical methods to develop advanced processes for challenging separations by, e.g. chromatgraphy, gas adsorption and membrane technologies.