Saïd Mondahchouo gives an oral presentation at the Journées de Chimie Analytique conference in Yaoundé, Cameroon. His talk is titled “Capacitive Deionization vs. Desalination Battery: Chemistry, Performance Metrics, and Ion Immobilization Mechanisms”.
Welcome Sylwia Jopa, who is a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences at the University of Warsaw (Poland). She will be working with us on advanced electrochemical in situ methods under the guidance of Mingren Liu. Great to have you with us!
Welcome Firmin Parfait Tchoumi! Supported by the German Academic Exchange Organization (DAAD), he will be exploring MXene materials with us. Happy to have you with us!
Welcome Amina Boutahar! As a visiting Ph.D. student from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (Marocco), she will be working on electrochemical desalination.
Welcome Maximilian Müller! He will be working on MXene materials for energy storage.
Prof. Dr. Volker Presser has been elected Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE). This distinction recognizes his scientific contributions to electrochemical materials and technologies. The ISE Fellowship is awarded to a small group of active researchers for continuing scientific and technical achievements in electrochemistry. Within ISE, Fellows represent only a small fraction of the active membership, and typically only a few new Fellows are elected each year.
Congratulation to Delvina Tarimo for being recognized as an outstanding reviewer for the RSC Journal Energy Advances in 2025!
Welcome new student intern Louisa Schöndorf, who will be working on next generation battery materials and technologies 🔋
As tradition over the last almos 15 years, our team presents our work at the Ph.D. day of Saarland University. This year, we had the following presenters:
Peter Burger: Electrochemical lithium-ion recovery from battery recycling process water
Jean Gustavo de Andrade Ruthes: Electrochemical Behavior of metal and covalent organic frameworks – toward tunable redox-active materials
Cansu Kök: Composite membrane-based lithium-ion extraction from brines and seawater
Liying Xue: Hierarchical MoO2/Mo2C nanoflowers for lithium-ion batteries anodes
Anna Seltmann and Stefanie Arnold presented work at the 13th EEIGM International Conference on Advanced Materials Research (AMR) in Nancy, France. Anna Seltmann presented a poster with the title “Ionic Liquids as Electrolytes in Supercapacitors” and Stefanie Arnold gave a talk on “Hybrids for Electrochemical Technologies: From Batteries to Desalination and Closed-Loop Recycling”.
Welcome new student intern Matthew Lowesome, who will be working on next-generation battery materials and technology 🔋
Anna Seltmann, Nicolas Huth, and Volker Presser were involved with the 116th MNU Federal Congress of the German Association for the Promotion of Mathematics and Science Education in Saarbrücken, Germany.
Volker Presser gave a seminar talk with the title “Quo vadis BatterienMythen, Fakten und Entwicklung”.
Anna and Nicolas provided a hands-on workshop to build your own battery (BYOB) to create (and test) functional coin cells.
New paper published in EES Batteries on the electrochemical modeling of silicon in lithium-ion batteries. In cooperation with industry partners and modelling experts, we presents a new electrochemical modeling framework for silicon anodes in lithium-ion batteries, capturing key challenges such as voltage hysteresis, phase transformations, and long relaxation processes. By combining multi-species, multi-reaction modeling with atomistic insights into lithium-silicon phases, the work provides a more realistic basis for understanding silicon electrodes and improving future battery design and management.
Anna Seltmann and Nicolas Huth represent our team and outline our team’s profile at the TraWeBa event “Trendsetter Battery“.
Nikolaos Papadopolous gives an oral presentation at the 22nd Symposium on Modeling and Experimental Validation
of Electrochemical Energy Technologies (ModVal 2026) in Lausanne, Switzerland. The presentation has the title “Electrochemical Modeling of Silicon in Lithium-Ion Batteries Using a Multi-Species, Multi-Reaction Framework with Atomistic Insights”.
Congratulations to Stefanie to be admitted to the Young Academy (Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz)! Since 2016, The Young Academy | Mainz has been the Academy’s dedicated programme for supporting emerging talent. Membership gives selected scientists, writers, and musicians the chance to build an interdisciplinary network and engage across fields. A key principle is the full and equal involvement of Young Academy members in the Academy’s activities. Active participation in meetings and events – and regular exchange with members of the established scholarly society – are therefore central to the programme. Members are also encouraged to shape the agenda themselves by organising events and launching new initiatives, especially through interdisciplinary working groups that pursue timely research questions developed independently by the members.
Welcome to the team! Ayush Gadpayle will be working on the Ec=m² Research Training Group and will explore MXene and the world of inter-layer functionality.
We are grateful that our collaborative review paper (led by Amir Razmjou) obtained the Best Review Paper in Desalination 2023–2025 Award from the Elsevier Journal Desalination.
Our team competed this year again at the International Olympiad in Electrochemical Material Science, which starts to become a bit of a tradition. This year, Energetic People (Stefanie Arnold, Peter Burger, Anna Seltmann) won the 3rd place! 🏅A special thanks to Fyodor Malchik for organizing this amazing event!
Volker Presser has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher (2025 edition) by Clariate.
