Charlotte studies industrial processes with the aim of improving them or inventing new, more sustainable processes. Such processes include, for example, recycling carbon dioxide from industrial waste, or generating green ammonia used as fertilizer. Drawing on her expertise in spectroscopy of catalysis, the interaction of light with various catalysts while they are operating, she studies details of catalysts that could not be explored otherwise.

Charlotte joined the Technion Schulich Faculty of Chemistry in March 2021 to help launch the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Sustainability Center for Catalysis. She is a member of the Grand Technion Energy Program and a Technion Faculty Ambassador.

Her company, Ceal, is developing technology to remove carbon dioxide from the environment and heal the world. The technology startup upgrades seawater-cooled power plants while enabling the removal of gigatons of atmospheric CO₂ and providing sustainable alternatives to mining.

Charlotte was born in the Netherlands and spent some time in the U.S. with her family before returning to the Netherlands for schooling. She received her bachelor’s degree, a combined master’s degree in inorganic chemistry and catalysis and business management, and a doctorate in catalysis from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. A large part of her Ph.D. research was spent at synchrotrons (particle accelerators) around the world, including the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the U.S., and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. Alongside her coursework, she had a clothing business and volunteered with schoolchildren in Mongolia.

Prior to joining the Technion, she was a visiting Ph.D. student and postdoctoral researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science and also conducted postdoctoral work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Charlotte has received much international recognition, including the Martinus van Marum prize from the Royal Holland Society of Sciences (2024); the prestigious Starting Grant by the European Research Council (2023); the First Eurotech Future Award from the Eurotech Universities Alliance (2023); the Beilby Medal and Prize from the British Royal Society of Chemistry (2023); inclusion in Chemical and Engineering News’ “Talented 12” list by the American Chemical Society (2023); and the Clara Immerwahr Award by the German cluster of excellence UniSysCat (2022). She was also included on Forbes’ “30 under 30” Europe 2021 list of brightest young entrepreneurs, leaders, and superstars.