We are very happy that Delvina Tarimo (PhD) has been awarded a research fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation! Delvina will be carrying out work on nanoconfinement and lithium-sulfur batteries. Congratulations, Delvina, and thanks for choosing the INM-Leibniz Institute for New Materials and our team for your research!
Stefanie Arnold has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis “Next generation (hybrid) battery materials at the water/energy/recycling nexus”. Congratulations, Dr. Arnold!
Welcome new Postdoc Jian Zhou, who will be working on electrochemical desalination with us.
Lei Wang has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis “Faradaic materials and processes for the electrochemical separation of alkali and alkaline earth metal ions”. Congratulations, Dr. Wang!
Welcome new postdoc Dr. Gracita Tomboc! With past experience at Myongji University, Korea University, and Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, we are excited about our upcoming joint work on energy and electrochemistry.
Welcome new AMASE Students Peter Burger and Maria Holmström! AMASE is an international Master’s program and an amazing opportunity to study not just materials science but to do so in multiple European cities! Both will be working on novel materials and methods for electrochemical desalination. Welcome to the team!
Welcome new Ph.D. student Liying Xue! Liying is from Guangxi University, China, and will be working on high entropy materials
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.
Very happy to see both Behnoosh Bornamehr and Mohammad Torkamanzadeh winning in the essay competition on open science / open data of Saarland University! This makes for a 100% win rate for applicants from our team 😉 Open access is not without challenges and caveats and the journey toward a world of true open science remains a high goal for the future. I am happy to see that our students actively engage in the conversation and contribute their valuable insights and share their experience!
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.
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.
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 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! 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! Esmeralda is from the Universidad de Santiago de Chile and will work with us on electrospinning.
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 to our new student intern, Anna Quinten! Anna is from Saarland University and will be working on ionic liquid supercapacitors.
Chandrasekaran Sakthi Vigneshwaran is a Master student working on next-generation Prussian blue based electrode materials for advanced batteries. Congratulations on being awarded a three month fellowship by the StudienStiftungSaar!
Dr. Samantha Husmann will attend the prestigious 2022 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting this week. She is one of only 611 young scientists selected in a highly competitive process from across the globe. This year, the topic is chemistry, perfectly reflected by Samantha’s research on next generation electrochemical materials (including, but not limited to, Prussian blue and Prussian blue analogues). Her positive energy and visionary research perspective will enrich the LINO22!
Mohammad Torkamanzadeh gives an oral presentation entitled “MXene for Electrochemical Water Desalination” at the 15th International Ceramics Congress CIMTEC in Perugia, Italy.
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