Faculty of Chemistry

Curriculum Vitae PD Dr. habil. Stephane Kenmoe

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I. Education

II. Research experience

III. Teaching experience

IV. Awards, distinctions and scholarships

1. Scientific consultant for strategic research planning for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization ‘s (UNIDO) development programmes in Africa (2025)
    
2. Diaspora expert for knowledge transfer at the GIZ (The German Society for International Cooperation) since 2024
    
3. Appointment as Visiting Researcher, School of Physics, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa
    
4. Appointment as Editor in Chief of the Forum on International Physics Newsletter (2022), a semestrial publication of the American Physical Society on Physics in the world.
    
5. Appointment as Editor in Chief of the African Physics Newsletter (2022), a quarterly publication of the American Physical Society on Physics in Africa.
    
6. Among the 100 projects of (Project Making Science the Star) selected as Prototypes for humanity by the Dubai’s Authority of Arts and Culture for the year 2022. Founder and Head of the project.
    
7. Investing in People grant (2022), (Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC) for efforts in promoting scientific culture in Africa
    
8. Fellow 2022 of Impact Factory, Germany's largest community of impact startups.
    
9. Among the 50 Young Physicists leaders selected worldwide to attend the International Young Leaders Forum 2022 of the American Physical Society Annual Leadership meeting
    
10. Falling Walls Engage 2021 Winner. A global competition that showcases the most innovative and impactful science engagement projects in the world.
     
11. TriSEED Consultants grant 2021, LLC (Hillsborough, North Carolina, USA) to promote scientific culture in Africa
     
12. Among the Junior Chamber International (JCI)´s Ten Outstanding Young People (TOYP) in Cameroon during the year 2021. Selected for academic leadership
     
13. University of Duisburg-Essen internal ‘DFG Initial Funding Advance’, December 2020
     
14. University of Duisburg-Essen Diversity prize for Academic Leadership, on the occasion of the German national day of diversity, 26th May 2020.
     
15. Travel fellowship from ASPEN Institute (science and Society Program) to attend the Aspen Global Congress for Scientific Thinking and Action in Rome, Italy, 25-28 March 2020
     
16. Travel fellowship from CNRS (Centre National de la recherché Scientifique, France) to attend the World conference of Science Journalists in Lausanne, Switzerland, 1-5 July 2019
     
17. Young scientist travel award for the Bunsentagung 2019 - 118th General Assembly of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry, Jena, Germany
     
18. JCP Editors’ Choice 2018 (for the most innovative and influential articles in the field of chemical physics) and AIP Scilight (showcases the most interesting research across the physical sciences) for the article: Kenmoe, S., & Biedermann, P. U. (2018).
    Water adsorbate phases on ZnO and impact of vapor pressure on the equilibrium shape of nanoparticles. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 148: 054701.
     
19. Scholarship of the Max Planck Society within the International Max Planck research School for Interface Controlled Materials for Energy Conversion (IMPRS-SurMat), Düsseldorf, Germany
     
20. Joint UNESCO and IAEA scholarship for the postgraduate diploma programme in Condensed Matter Physics at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. (Among 40 students selected from developing countries, academic year 2010/2011).

V. Professional memberships

Forum on Internal Physics of the American Physical Society: Editor in Chief

African Physics Newsletter: Editor in Chief

Making Science the Star Company: Founder and CEO

Making Science the Star Association: Founder and General Coordinator

Fellow of Impact Factory, Anthropia, Germany: 6th batch 2022

African Strategy for Fundamental and Applied Physics: Convener for Atomic and molecular Physics.

Association of Cameroonian Engineers and Computer scientists in Germany, president of the scientific committee since 07/2020

African Physical Society: Member of the executive board (communication officer) since 10/2018

Young African Scientists in Europe (YASE): Member of the scientific committee since 08/2018

Young Africans in North America (YASNA): Member of the scientific committee since 08/2018

American Physical society (APS): Early career Member since 11/2013

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DGP): Member since 11/2013

List of scientific peer-reviewed publications
(July 2026)

1. Mohammadi Siahboomi, R., Kenmoe, S., Douma, D.H., Leupold, M.S., Eslami, A., Loza, K., Hagemann, U., Heidelmann, M., Oleg Prymak, Schmidt, T.C., Giese, M. (2026) Designing 3D-Printed TiO₂/BiFeO₃‑Hybrid Materials for Enhanced Photocatalytic Degradation of Acyclovir via Visible Light. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 18 (19), 27412–27425. 
2. Catalina Leiva-Leroy, C., Koul, A., Nkou, F., Fandre, J.P., Zhang, D., Hareendran, A., Busser, G.W., Tüysüz, H., Kenmoe, S., Schuhmann, W., Muhler, M. (2025) From Heat to Electrons: Bridging Heterogenous Thermal and Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Ethylene Glycol over Co3O4, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2026, 65, e19188
3. Schellenburg, D., Bihnam, T., Placke-Yan, C., Bendt, G., Prymak, O., Sato, T., Jennings, D., Leiva-Leroy, C., Zhang, D., Nachev, M., Dhaka, K., Nkou, F, Hagemann, U., Heidelmann, M., Kenmoe, S., Exner, K.S., Sures, B., Muhler, M., Liebscher, C.H., Schnegg, A., Schulz, S., Barcikowski, S., Reichenberger, S. (2025) Mechanistic Understanding of Laser-Induced Defect Engineering of Anisotropic  Cobalt  Oxide  Spinel  Platelets  in  Water, ChemCatChem, 10.1002/cctc.202501233, 18 (2)
4. Kapil, D., Kenmoe, S., Füngerlings, A., Pentcheva, R., Tschulik, K. and Exner, K.S. (2025) Trends in Oxygen Evolution Reaction Activity and Limiting Steps for Tetrahedral, Pseudo-Octahedral, and Octahedral Sites on Co3O4, ChemCatChem, 17 (19), e00992
5. Bera, A., Salamon, S., Wende, H., Franzka, S., Hasselbrink, E. and Kenmoe, S. (2025) Probing Facet Specific Interaction of 2-Propanol and CoFe2O4 at Near Ambient Conditions, ChemPhysChem, e2500095
6. Daawe, D.M., Fonzeu Monguen, C.K., Kenmoe, S. and Kouotou, M.P. (2025) Investigation of the Mn-doping effects on structural, morphological, thermal, and catalytic properties of Co3O4 spinel nanoparticles for CO oxidation, ChemPhysMatter
7. Nkou, F. & Kenmoe, S. (2025). Ethylene glycol partial oxidation on Co3O4 (001) surface: interplay between the solute coverage and solvation, Molecular Catalysis, 578, 114980
8. Nkou, F., & Kenmoe, S. (2025). Ethylene glycol partial oxidation on Co3O4 (001) surfaces: pathways to two- and four-electron products, ChemCatChem, e202401885
9. Franz, T., Götsch, T., Najafishirtari, S., Behrens, M., Christoph Pratsch., Kenmoe, S., Douma, D.H., Schloegl, R., Knop-Gericke, A. & Lunkenbein, T. (2025) Sub-nanometer tracking of the oxidation state on Co3O4 by ILIAS and its correlation to the catalytic activity in CO oxidation, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 17, 6, 9419–9430
10. Kenmoe, S.& Douma, D.H. (2024). Electronic and magnetic properties of Co3O4 and Co3−xNixO4 from theoretical XANES spectroscopy at the Co K-edge, Phys. Chem. C , 129, 1, 699–704
11. Razzaq, S., Faridi, S., Kenmoe, S., Singh, D., Meng, L., Vines, F., Illas, F. & Exner, K.S. (2024) MXenes form Active and Selective Single-Atom Centers under Anodic Polarization Conditions, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 147, 1, 161–168
12. Ngom, N. Etindele, A. J, Nithaya, C., Wakata, A. S. & Kenmoe, S (2024)., Comparative study of CO adsorption on Au, Cu, MoO2 and MoS2 2D nanoparticles, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry 1241, 114877
13. Kox, T. & Kenmoe, S. (2024). Co3O4 (111) surfaces in contact with water: Molecular dynamics study of the surface chemistry and structure at room temperature, Dalton Trans., 53, 13184-13194
14. Ndouka, N.P., Kenmoe, S., Mache, J.R., Acayanka, E., Douma, D.H., Gebauer, R. & Kouotou, M.P. (2024) Low-Temperature Catalytic Methane Deep Oxidation over Sol-gel derived Mesoporous Hausmannite (Mn3O4) Nanospheres, ChemPhysMater 3, 329–340
15. Nianga-Obambi, P.S., Douma, D.H., Etindele, A.J., Raji, A.T., Malonda-Boungou, B.R., M’Passi-Mabiala, B & Kenmoe, S. (2024). Adsorption Behaviour of Pb and Cd on Graphene Oxide Nanoparticle from First-Principle Investigations, Materials 17 (12), 2831
16. Olowookere, I.O., Adebambo, P.O., Agbaoye, R.O., Raji, A.T., Idowu, M.A., Kenmoe, S. & Adebayo, G.A. (2024) Unveiling the Doping- and Temperature-Dependent Properties of Organic Semiconductor Orthorhombic Rubrene from First Principles, Solids, 5, 278-291
17. Ndang, A.K, Etindele, A.J, Douma, D.H, Kenmoe, S., & Nithaya, C. (2024), Ab initio study of p- and n-type doping of two-dimensional MoO2: investigation of a pn-homojunction, J. Phys. Commun. 8 025009
18. Omranpoor, A. H. & Kenmoe, S (2023). 2-propanol activation on the low index Co3O4 surfaces: a comparative study using molecular dynamics simulations, Catalysts 2024, 14(1), 25
19. Agbaoye, R. O., Adebambo, P.O., Kenmoe, S and Adebayo, G. A. (2023) Stabilizing tetramethylammonium lead iodide perovskite and exploring its electronic and optical absorption for solar cell absorber application, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 25 (34), 23012-23023
20. Jolayemi, R.O., Adetunji, B.I., Adebambo, P.O., Kenmoe, S & Adebayo, G. A. (2023) First-Principles Investigation of the Electronic, Mechanical, and Thermoelectric Properties of TiIrP, J. COCOM, e00818
21. Omranpoor, A.H., Bera, A., Bullert, D., Linke, M., Salamon, S., Webers, S., Wende, H., Hasselbrink, E., Spohr, E. and Kenmoe, S. (2023). 2-Propanol interacting with Co3O4 (001): A combined vSFS and AIMD study, J. Chem. Phys. 158, 164703
22. Douma, D.H., Nchimi N. K., Omranpoor, A. H., Lamperti, A., Debernadi, A. & Kenmoe, S. (2023) Probing the local electronic structure of active sites during 2-propanol oxidation to acetone on the Co3O4 (001) surface: insights from first principles X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure (XANES) at the O K-edge, J. Phys Chem C, 127, 11, 5351-5357
23. Bamgbose, M. K., Ayedun, F., Solola, G. T., Musari, A. A, Kenmoe, S. & Adebayo , G. A. (2022) Electronic, Elastic, Optical & Thermoelectric Properties of Half-Heusler Topological Semi-Metal HfIrAs from First-Principles Calculations, Crystals, 13(1), 37
24. Adebambo, P.O, Adetunji, B.I., O., Uto, O.T., Kenmoe, S. & Adebayo, G. A. (2022) First-principles calculations of the phonon, mechanical and Thermoelectric properties of half-Heusler alloy VIrSi alloys, Crystals 12(12), 1838
25. Omranpoor, A. H., Spohr, E & Kenmoe, S (2022). Isopropanol decomposition at the Water/ Co3O4(001) interface: effect of temperature, surface composition and electrochemical environment, Appl. Surf. Sci. Adv. 12, 100319 (2022)
26. Kox, T., Omranpoor, A.H & Kenmoe, S. (2022) Water adsorption on CoFe2O4(001) surface: structure and reactivity from ab initio MD simulations, Physchem 2 (4), 321-333
27. Douma, D. H., Poaty, L.T., Lamperti, A. Kenmoe, S., Raji, L.T., Debernadi, A. & M’Passi Mabiala, B (2022). Theoretical investigations of oxygen vacancy effects on nickel doped zirconia (NixZr1−xO2) from ab initio x-ray absorption spectroscopy XANES at the oxygen K-edge, Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 13 (1), 975-985
28. Zigla, A. A., Kox, T. Mevoa, D., Assaouka, T.H., Nsangou, N.I., Daawe, M.D., Kenmoe, S. and Kouotou, M.P. (2022). Magnesium-modified Co3O4 catalyst with remarkable performance for toluene low temperature deep oxidation, Catalysts 12(4), 411.
29. Zerebecki, S., Salamon, S. Yang, Y., Tong, Y., Budiyanto, E., Waffel, D., dreyer, M. Saddeler, S., Kox, T., Kenmoe, S., Spohr, E., Schulz, S., Behrens, M., Muhler, Tüysüz, H., Kramer Campen, R., Wende, H., Reichenberger, S. & Barcikowsi (2021) Defect-Engineering of CoFe2O4-Nanoparticles by Ultrafast Laser Heating in Water, ChemCatChem, 14 (10), e202101785.
30. Kenmoe, S., Douma, D.H., Raji, A.T., M’Passi-Mabiala, B,. Götsch, T., Girgsdies, F., Knop-Gericke, A., Robert Schloegl, R., & Spohr, E. (2022) X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure (XANES) at the O K-edge and Co L-edge in bulk Co3O4, Nanomaterials, 12 (6), 921.
31. Uto , O. T., Akinlami, J. O., Kenmoe, S. & Adebayo , G. A. (2022) Electronic structure, Mechanical and Thermodynamic properties of CoYSb (Y= Cr, Mo, W) half-Heusler compounds as potential spintronic materials, Solids 3 (1), 22-33.
32. Agbaoye, R. O., Bolarinwa, S., Kolawole, A. O., Adekoya-Olowofela A, Modupe, H.L., Omolola, M., Adebambo, P.O, Kenmoe, S. & Adebayo, G.A (2021) Bandgap correction and spin-orbit coupling induced absorption spectra of ethylammoniumLeadIodide for solar cell absorber, Front. Energy Res., 9, 778865.
33. Lisovski, O., Piskunov, S., Bocharov, D., & Kenmoe, S (2021). 2D slab models of nanotubes based onTiO2 tetragonal structures: validation over a diameter range, Nanomaterials 11(8), 1925.
34. Budiyanto, E., Zerebecki, S., Weidenthaler, C., Kox,T., Kenmoe, S., Spohr, E DeBeer, S., Rüdiger, O., Reichenberger, S., Barcikowsi, S., & Tüysüz, H. (2021). Impact of Single-Pulse, Low-Intensity Laser Post-Processing on Structure and Activity of Mesostructured Cobalt Oxide for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces,13, 44.
35. Douma, D. H., Nkou, F. B. S., Malonda Boungou, B. R., Raji, A.T., Kenmoe, S. & M’Passi Mabiala, B. (2021). Theoretical insights into magnetization in graphene containing single and interacting nanoporous defects, J. Phys. E: Low-Dimens. Syst. Nanostruct., 128, 114564.
36. Agbaoye, R. O., Adebayo, G. A. & Kenmoe, S. (2021). Band Structure and Absorption Spectra of NH4XI3 (X = Pb, Mg) based hybrid Perovskite, J. Phys. Chem. Sol., 151, 109860.
37. Kox, T., Spohr, E. & Kenmoe, S., Effect of solvation on the structure and reactivity of Co3O4(001)/water interface (2020): Insights from Molecular dynamics simulations. Front. Energy Res., 8, 604799.
38. Lisovski, O., Piskunov, S., Bocharov, D., & Kenmoe, S (2020). 2D slab models of TiO2 nanotubes for simulation of water adsorption: validation over a diameter range. Results Phys., 19, 103527.
39. Kenmoe, S. & Spohr, E. (2020). Computer modelling of semiconductor nanotubes for water splitting. Curr. Opin. Electrochem., 19 (88-95).
40. Kenmoe, S., & Spohr, E. (2019). Photo-oxidation of Water on Pristine, S and N Doped TiO2 (001) Nanotube Surfaces: A DFT+ U Study. J. Phys. Chem. C, 123 (37), 22691-22698.
41. Piskunov, S., Lisovski, O., Zhukovskii, Y. F., D’yachkov, P. N., Evarestov, R. A., Kenmoe, S., & Spohr, E. (2019). First-Principles Evaluation of the Morphology of WS2 Nanotubes for Application as Visible-Light-Driven Water-Splitting Photocatalysts. ACS Omega, 4(1), 1434-1442.
42. Kenmoe, S., Lisovski, O., Piskunov, S., Zhukovskii, Y. F., & Spohr, E. (2019). Electronic and optical properties of pristine, N-and S-doped water-covered TiO2 nanotube surfaces. J. Chem. Phys., 150(4), 041714.
43. Kenmoe, S., Lisovski, O., Piskunov, S., Bocharov, D., Zhukovskii, Y. F., & Spohr, E. (2018). Water adsorption on clean and defective anatase TiO2 (001) nanotube surfaces: A surface science approach. J. Phys. Chem. B, 122(21), 5432-5440.
44. Lisovski, O., Kenmoe, S., Piskunov, S., Bocharov, D., Zhukovskii, Y. F., & Spohr, E. (2018). Validation of a constrained 2D slab model for water adsorption simulation on 1D periodic TiO2 nanotubes. J. COCOM, 15, 69-78.
45. Kenmoe, S., & Biedermann, P. U. (2018). Water adsorbate phases on ZnO and impact of vapor pressure on the equilibrium shape of nanoparticles. J. Chem. Phys., 148(5), 054701.
46. Kenmoe, S., & Biedermann, P. U. (2017). Water aggregation and dissociation on the ZnO (1010) surface. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 19, 1466-1486.