Cracking a tough nut

His work turns waste from rubber plantations into diesel fuel and may help smallholders in Indonesia. ‘That is what I like about Chemical Technology: you produce useful products!’ Yusuf Abduh defended his PhD in Chemical Technology on 27 February.

He has only returned to Holland to defend his thesis. For two months now, Yusuf Abduh has been working as a lecturer at the Institut Teknologi Bandung, a university with a long history of partnership with the University of Groningen. Before moving back to Bandung, Abduh did his PhD research at the Department of Chemical Engineering in Groningen.

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