Profile

Mijndert van der Spek
ETH Zürich · 🇨🇭 CH

Career Stage: Senior

CDR Specialization

DAC

Removing CO₂ directly from ambient air using chemical sorbents or solvents.

Metrics

MetricValue
h-index24
Citations2,985
Publications121
CDR Focus36.4%
TrajectoryStable

Top CDR Publications

  1. The cost of direct air capture and storage can be reduced via strategic deployment but is unlikely to fall below stated cost targets (2023) 169 citations · DAC

  2. The impact of binary water–CO 2 isotherm models on the optimal performance of sorbent-based direct air capture processes (2021) 153 citations · DAC

  3. A roadmap for achieving scalable, safe, and low-cost direct air carbon capture and storage (2023) 88 citations · DAC

  4. Process-informed adsorbent design guidelines for direct air capture (2022) 67 citations · DAC

  5. Discerning molecular-level CO2 adsorption behavior in amine-modified sorbents within a controlled CO2/H2O environment towards direct air capture (2024) 18 citations · DAC

  6. The cost of direct air capture and storage: the impact of technological learning, regional diversity, and policy. (2022) 12 citations · DAC

  7. On the climate impacts of blue hydrogen production (2021) 12 citations · General CDR

  8. An ecosystem of carbon dioxide removal reviews – part 1: direct air CO 2 capture and storage (2025) 11 citations · DAC

  9. Carbon dioxide removal could result in the use of lower-grade iron ore in a decarbonized net-negative emission steel industry (2024) 11 citations · General CDR

  10. On the climate impacts of blue hydrogen production (2021) 8 citations · General CDR

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