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Korneel Rabaey

Korneel Rabaey

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Engineering and Technology
Belgium
2026
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Chemistry
Belgium
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
102
Citations
51573
World Ranking
133
National Ranking
1

Chemistry

D-Index
105
Citations
52674
World Ranking
983
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Korneel Rabaey is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium, with a primary focus on engineering and environmental science. Their academic work spans several disciplines and subfields including biomedical engineering, environmental engineering, molecular biology, electrical and electronic engineering, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

The scientist's research interests concentrate on areas such as microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, biofuel production and bioconversion, anaerobic digestion and biogas production, membrane-based ion separation techniques, electrochemical sensors and biosensors, and wastewater treatment and reuse.

Frequent publication venues for Korneel Rabaey include:

  • Water Research
  • Environmental Science and Ecotechnology
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Bioresource Technology
  • Separation and Purification Technology

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by this scientist are:

  • "Mildly acidic pH selects for chain elongation to caproic acid over alternative pathways during lactic acid fermentation", 2020, Water Research
  • "Microbial electrochemistry for bioremediation", 2020, Environmental Science and Ecotechnology
  • "A review on ion-exchange nanofiber membranes: properties, structure and application in electrochemical (waste)water treatment", 2022, Separation and Purification Technology
  • "Greywater reuse as a key enabler for improving urban wastewater management", 2023, Environmental Science and Ecotechnology
  • "Effect of speciation and composition on the kinetics and precipitation of arsenic sulfide from industrial metallurgical wastewater", 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials

Key frequent co-authors who have collaborated on multiple papers include:

  • Ramon Ganigué
  • Antonin Prévoteau
  • Myrsini Sakarika
  • Luiza Bonin
  • José M. Carvajal-Arroyo

Korneel Rabaey's work intersects multiple themes focused on understanding and improving microbial and electrochemical processes for environmental applications, specifically related to water treatment, bioconversion, and bioenergy production.

Best Publications

  • Microbial Fuel Cells: Methodology and Technology†

    Bruce E Logan;Bert Hamelers;René Rozendal;Uwe Schröder

  • Microbial fuel cells: novel biotechnology for energy generation

    Korneel Rabaey;William Verstraete

  • Conversion of wastes into bioelectricity and chemicals by using microbial electrochemical technologies.

    Bruce E. Logan;Korneel Rabaey

  • Microbial electrosynthesis — revisiting the electrical route for microbial production

    Korneel Rabaey;René A. Rozendal

  • Biofuel Cells Select for Microbial Consortia That Self-Mediate Electron Transfer

    Korneel Rabaey;Nico Boon;Steven D. Siciliano;Marc Verhaege

  • Towards practical implementation of bioelectrochemical wastewater treatment.

    René A. Rozendal;René A. Rozendal;Hubertus V.M. Hamelers;Korneel Rabaey;Jurg Keller

  • Microbial phenazine production enhances electron transfer in biofuel cells

    Korneel Rabaey;Nico Boon;Monica Höfte;Willy Verstraete

  • Continuous Electricity Generation at High Voltages and Currents Using Stacked Microbial Fuel Cells

    Peter Aelterman;Korneel Rabaey;Nico Boon

  • A microbial fuel cell capable of converting glucose to electricity at high rate and efficiency.

    Korneel Rabaey;Geert Lissens;Steven D. Siciliano;Willy Verstraete

  • Biological denitrification in microbial fuel cells.

    Peter Clauwaert;Korneel Rabaey;Peter Aelterman;Liesje De Schamphelaire

  • Tubular microbial fuel cells for efficient electricity generation.

    Korneel Rabaey;Peter Clauwaert;Peter Aelterman;Willy Verstraete

  • Global Phosphorus Scarcity and Full-Scale P-Recovery Techniques: A Review

    Evelyn Desmidt;Karel Ghyselbrecht;Yang Zhang;Luc Pinoy

  • Microbial ecology meets electrochemistry: electricity-driven and driving communities.

    Korneel Rabaey;Jorge Rodriguez;Linda L. Blackall;Juerg Keller

  • Microbial fuel cells for simultaneous carbon and nitrogen removal.

    Bernardino Virdis;Korneel Rabaey;Zhiguo Yuan;Jürg Keller

  • Microbial Fuel Cells in Relation to Conventional Anaerobic Digestion Technology

    T. H. Pham;K. Rabaey;P. Aelterman;P. Clauwaert

  • Minimizing losses in bio-electrochemical systems: the road to applications

    Peter Clauwaert;Peter Aelterman;Liesje De Schamphelaire

  • Microbial fuel cells for sulfide removal.

    Korneel Rabaey;Kirsten Van de Sompel;Lois Maignien;Nico Boon

  • Chain elongation in anaerobic reactor microbiomes to recover resources from waste.

    Catherine M. Spirito;Hanno Richter;Korneel Rabaey;Alfons Johannes Maria Stams

  • Open air biocathode enables effective electricity generation with microbial fuel cells

    Peter Clauwaert;David van der Ha;Nico Boon;Kim Verbeken

  • The anode potential regulates bacterial activity in microbial fuel cells

    Peter Aelterman;Stefano Freguia;Jurg Keller;Willy Verstraete

  • Microbial fuel cells

    Korneel Rabaey;Willy Verstraete

Frequent Co-Authors

Jurg Keller
Jurg Keller University of Queensland
Nico Boon
Nico Boon Ghent University
Willy Verstraete
Willy Verstraete Ghent University
Zhiguo Yuan
Zhiguo Yuan City University of Hong Kong
Yang Mu
Yang Mu University of Science and Technology of China
Siegfried E. Vlaeminck
Siegfried E. Vlaeminck University of Antwerp
Monica Höfte
Monica Höfte Ghent University
Frederik Ronsse
Frederik Ronsse Ghent University
Damien J. Batstone
Damien J. Batstone University of Queensland
Falk Harnisch
Falk Harnisch Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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