Welcome new Ph.D. student Liying Xue! Liying is from Guangxi University, China, and will be working on high entropy materials
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Welcome visiting Humboldt Fellow Syed Tauqir Ali Sherazi
Welcome to our team, Prof. Dr. Syed Tauqir Ali Sherazi! Having been awarded the prestigious Georg Forster Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he will be working on next-generation water remediation technologies. Our visiting Fellow is Professor at COMSATS University Islamabad Abbottabad Campus in Pakistan.
Volker Presser honored by Environment and Climate Protection Award of the City of Saarbrücken
Volker Presser was honored for the work on electrochemical water remediation and Lithium-ion extraction by the City of Saarbrücken. Read more about the event and all awardees.

Volker Presser 2022 Highly Cited Researcher
It is a privilege to receive, after 2018 and 2021, the recognition as 2022 Highly Cited Researcher (HRC) by Clarivate. Only 6,938 out of abut 8M researchers have received this recognition. Citation numbers are not the most important parameter in science, but I am grateful to our team and collaborators that the community so well receives our works. I am also honored to be the only 2022 HRC of Saarland University and only 1 of 2 if counting the University Hospital, too.

Volker Presser receives the 2022 Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry of the International Society of Electrochemistry
I am honored to receive the 2022 Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry. This award by the International Society of Electrochemistry recognizes the achievements in the field of electrochemistry for energy of my team and I. I am fortunate to join the list of awardees which includes from past years Xiangfeng Duan (2017), Fabio la Mantia (2018), Zhichuan (Jason) Xu (2019), and Joaquín Rodríguez-López (2021). Coming in the year of my 40th birthday and the 10-year-anniversary of being a PI at the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, I am grateful to not just my team but also our esteemed collaborators, especially dear friends such as Michael Naguib, Guang Feng, Christian Prehal, Yury Gogotsi, Veronica Augustyn, and so many more!

Welcome new Postdoc Dr. Kaitlyn Prenger
Welcome to our new Postdoc Dr. Kaitlyn Prenger! Kaitlyn is a graduate of Tulane University from the esteemed team of Michael Naguib and will work on novel 2D (and other) materials for sustainable electrochemical applications.
Welcome new Ph.D. student Jean Gustavo De Andrade Ruthes
Welcome new Ph.D. student Jean Gustavo De Andrade Ruthes! Jean is from the Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil, and will be working on MXene / graphene batteries within our Czech-German research collaboration.
Welcome visiting Student Esmeralda Lopez Toro
Welcome visiting student Esmeralda Lopez Toro! Esmeralda is from the Universidad de Santiago de Chile and will work with us on electrospinning.
Welcome new Postdoc Delvina Japhet Tarimo
Welcome new Postdoc Dr. Delvina Japhet Tarimo! Delvina is from University of Pretoria, South Africa, and will be working on nanoporous materials and next-generation batteries.
Welcome new student intern Anna Quinten
Welcome to our new student intern, Anna Quinten! Anna is from Saarland University and will be working on ionic liquid supercapacitors.