Electrocatalysis research is key for pushing emerging electrochemical conversion technologies from lab to industrial scale. For many years the focus was to develop better electrocatalyst materials towards improved activities and selectivities. However, more and more the key role of the electrolyte composition has been highlighted, inclusing the effect of solvent, pH, ion identitiy and concentration, among others. With that, several efforts have also emerged towards probing the electrochemical interface to selectively identify the role of each of these individual parameters on the overall electrocatalytic response. Going one step further, several strategies for tailoring the electrocatalytic interface have gained space, as for example surface modifications via anchoring of organic molecules, or immobilization of ionic liquids at the interface. In this symposium, progress and challenges of how electrolyte properties affect electrocatalytic reactions will be discussed, including the use of in-situ and operando methods to probe the interface. We aim to bring together leading researchers on the field, covering insights both from theory and experiments, providing a platform for the exchange of ideas and the exploration of new approaches and collaborations. We will leave ample time for questions and discussions in the program. Diversity will be ensured for keynote, invited and contributed talks, and posters.
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- Fundamentals of the electrochemical interface
- Effect of pH, cations and anions on electrocatalytic reactions
- Operando probing of the electrochemical interface
- Beyond aqueous media: electrocatalysis in organic solvents, ionic liquids, etc
- Theoretical insights on electrode-electrolyte interfaces
- Electrolyte effects on CO2 electroreduction
- Electrolyte effects on water electrolyzers and fuel cell reactions
- Electrolyte engineering in applied/large scale electrochemical systems
Academic Career
Since May 2020: W3 Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, TUM.
2014 - 2020: W2 Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics, TUM.
2010 - 2014: Group leader ("Adsorption and Electrocatalysis") at the Center for Electrochemical Sciences (CES) at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
2008 - 2010: Post-doc, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark.
2006 - 2008: Post-doc, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, the Netherlands.
2002 - 2005: PhD in Physical and Solid State Chemistry, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus.
Awards
• The German National Ernst Haage Award for the research in the field of chemical energy conversion (2016)
• Hans-Jürgen Engell Award of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE Prize for Electrochemical Materials Science) for the research on electrocatalysis and in situ characterisation of the electrode–electrolyte interface (2013)