Overview
Dharmjeet Madhav is the founder and director of AARDIVE, which he started in August 2025, and is based in Brugge. Since March 2025 he has also been a research associate at KU Leuven.
He completed a PhD in materials science and chemical engineering at KU Leuven between November 2020 and January 2025, working there as a doctoral researcher over the same period, and held a strategic basic research fellowship from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) from November 2021 to October 2025. From November 2023 to March 2024 he was a visiting research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he spent late 2019 and early 2020 as an independent researcher at the Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón.
His studies include master's degrees from KU Leuven in membrane engineering, the Universidad de Zaragoza in nanotechnology, the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague in chemical process technology, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III in chemical engineering and the University of Montpellier in materials engineering. He studied polymer science and technology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, from 2014 to 2018, where he also held several student council and hall positions.
Career history
In the news
- Really enjoyed taking part in the Fuels-C Innovation Workshop, representing AARDIVE. Thanks to Deepak and the Fuels-C team for bringing everyone together and for the open, useful discussions. It was great to exchange ideas, meet new people, and explore where we could work together in the future. Looking forward to following the Fuels-C outcomes and seeing how its integrated technologies for converting biogenic residues and CO₂ into sustainable fuels progress towards future deployment.
- This week VITO is hosting the 30-Month Consortium Meeting of the Horizon Europe project Fuels-C in Mol, Belgium. The three-day meeting brings together project partners to review progress across the different work packages, covering fuel production technologies for road and marine transport, fuel-cell testing, sustainability assessments, dissemination, and project management activities. A highlight of the week was today's Innovation Workshop, where consortium partners, industry representatives, and members of the Fuels-C Advisory
- AARDIVE is looking for Direct Air Capture technologies and partners for the Horizon Europe Call in 2027
- AARDIVE Looking for breakthrough technologies at TRL 4+ to support transition from lab to market. Reach out to us at https://lnkd.in/eXBFP-HC
- AARDIVE TURNS 1!Today, 27 August 2026, marks one year since Aardive was founded with a simple ambition: To bridge scientific innovation and real-world industrial impact. What started as an idea has, over the past year, grown into a growing network of researchers, universities, research organisations, industrial partners and innovators working together across Europe. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who has been part of this journey. 🌱 We launched our new Aardive website — check it out at aardive.earth
- Glad to finally share something we’ve been building over the past year.✨ Together, Dr. Sara Chergaoui and I, founded AARDIVE, a Belgian sustainability-focused, research-driven startup dedicated to transforming scientific innovation into practical technologies that create real environmental impact. At AARDIVE, we focus on: 🌱 Carbon Removal ♻️ Sustainable Materials ⚙️ Process Innovation Over the past year, we have built strong collaborations, explored more than 10 European and national funding opportunities, and taken the first
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