Nicolas Jäckel has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Structure and properties of supercapacitor and lithium-ion battery electrodes: The role of material, electrolyte, binder, and additives”.
Welcome new group members Marc Schmidt, Maike Ulbricht, and Yuan Zhang! Ms. Ulbricht and Mr. Schmidt are our new student interns from Saarland University. Ms. Zhang starts as a PhD student working on Faradaic materials and has a master’s degree from Ulm University.
Marco Zeiger has successfully defended his thesis entitled “Next generation electrochemical energy storage with nanocarbons and carbon nanohybrid materials”. Congratulations!
Welcome new visiting PhD student Jemma Rowlandson from Valeska Ting‘s team at the University of Bristol, UK! Jemma will be working on bio-derived nanoporous carbons for electrochemical applications in the next 3 months. See also Jemma’s fantastic YouTube science videos (video 1 / video 2 / video 3).
Welcome to our new student intern Jaehoon Choi. Coming from the Korea University of Technology and Education (Koreatech), he is part of the exchange program and is already the fourth student we have in our team.
Welcome our new EEIGM Master students Sidonie Carpier and Rose Zwingelstein! Both students will be working on electrochemical materials and will be with us for the next half-year.
Welcome visiting PhD student Rafael Linzmeyer Zornitta! Our guest scientist is visiting from the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, more precisley, from the Laboratory of Environmental Technologies. He will be working with us in the coming year on capactive deionization.
Today, Volker Presser has his 5-year anniversary as Group Leader at INM.
Welcome our new postdoctoral research fellow Dr. Eunho Lim. Having graduated Pohang University of Science and Technology, he will be working on metal oxide / carbon nanomaterials.