CRC/TRR 247

At the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Ruhr-University Bochum.
With Participation of: Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, and Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society

Scientific Staff

Area A - Catalysis

A1 - Thermal Catalysis: Activity and Selectivity Patterns of Transition Metal Oxides in Different Oxidation Reactions

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Malte Behrens, Prof. Dr. Martin Muhler

Name Phone E-Mail
Dr. Sharif Najafishirtari +49 203 379 8234 E-Mail
Dr. Baoxiang Peng +49 234 322 6605 E-Mail
Julia Büker +49 234 321 9087 E-Mail
Maik Dreyer +49 201 183 3379 E-Mail
Tobias Falk +49 234 322 4518 E-Mail
Daniel Waffel +49 234 321 9087 E-Mail

 

A2 - Electrocatalysis and In-Depth Electrochemical Characterization of Structure-Activity and Defect-Activity Relations

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Kristina Tschulik, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schuhmann

Name Phone E-Mail
Dr. Yen-Ting Chen +49 234 321 9052 E-Mail
Dr. Sabine Seisel +49 234 322 5464 E-Mail
Dr. Patrick Wilde +49 234 322 7255 E-Mail
Dr. Tobias Löffler +49 234 322 4151 E-Mail
Thomas Quast +49 234 322 4151 E-Mail
Markus Kratz +49 234 321 9063 E-Mail
Swapnil Varhade +49 234 322 6202 E-Mail

 

A3 - Structure-Activity Correlations in Heterogeneous Photocatalysis

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Martin Muhler

Name Phone E-Mail
Dr. Wilma Busser +49 234 322 6475 E-Mail
Henning Jansen +49 234 322 6475 E-Mail

 

A4 - Surface Reactivity of Advanced Model Oxides Catalysts

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya

Name Phone E-Mail
Dr. Arno Bergmann +49 308 413 4126 E-Mail
Dr. Earl Davis   E-Mail
Felix Haase +49 308 413 4158 E-Mail

 

A5 - Quantum Chemical Investigation of Catalytic Cycles on Transition Metal Oxides

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Christof Hättig

Name Phone E-Mail
Arjeta Rushiti +49 234 322 2125 E-Mail

  

A6 - Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Transition Metal Oxide-Water Interfaces

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Eckhard Spohr

Name Phone E-Mail
Dr. Stéphane Kenmoe +49 201 183 2497 E-Mail
Tim Kox   E-Mail
Amir Hossein Omranpoor   E-Mail

Area B - Analysis and Model Materials

B1 - Structural Characterization of Complex Oxides for Oxidation Catalysis

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Markus Winterer

Name Phone E-Mail
Dr. Detlef Kramczynski +49 203 379 2962 E-Mail
Jeremias Geiß +49 203 379 4416 E-Mail

  

B2 - Element-specific Electronic, Magnetic and Local Geometric Structure Effects in Mixed Oxide Catalysts

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Heiko Wende

Name Phone E-Mail
Dr. Katharina Ollefs +49 203 379 2387 E-Mail
Dr. Soma Salamon +49 203 379 4384 E-Mail

 

B3 - Charge Carrier Dynamics in Spinel and Perovskite Oxides

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Gerd Bacher

Name Phone E-Mail
Dr. Tilmar Kümmell +49 203 379 3403 E-Mail
Laura Kampermann +49 203 379 3189 E-Mail
Julian Klein +49 203 379 3189 E-Mail

 

B4 - Theoretical Understanding and Trends in Reactivity of Transition Metal Oxides: Role of Structural Patterns and Control of Electronic State

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Rossitza Pentcheva

Name Phone E-Mail
Achim Füngerlings +49 203 379 2261 E-Mail
Yuman Peng +49 203 379 2261 E-Mail
Shohreh Rafiezadeh   E-Mail

 

B5 - In situ Vibrational Spectroscopy

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Eckart Hasselbrink

Name Phone E-Mail
Dr. Anupam Bera   E-Mail
Denise Franziska Bullert +49 201 183 3060 E-Mail

  

B6 - Advanced X-Ray Spectroscopic Studies of Heterogeneous Oxidation Catalysts

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Serena DeBeer

Name Phone E-Mail
Dr. Olaf Rüdiger +49 208 306 3880 E-Mail
Minmin Chen   E-Mail

  

B7 - Advanced TEM and in situ X-Ray Spectroscopy

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Robert Schlögl

Name Phone E-Mail
Dr. Axel Knop-Gericke +49 308 413 4422 E-Mail
Dr. Thomas Lunkenbein +49 308 413 4499 E-Mail
Dr. Thomas Götsch +49 308 413 4500 E-Mail

  

B8 - Multiscale Methods for Theoretical Spectroscopy of Oxide Surfaces under Electrochemical Conditions

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Frank Neese, Prof. Dr. Rochus Schmid

Name Phone E-Mail
Dr. Dimitrios Manganas +49 208 306 3589 E-Mail
Daniel Oelert   E-Mail

Area C - Synthesis

C1 - Synthesis of Transition Metal Oxides with Controlled Mesostructure

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Malte Behrens, PD Dr. Harun Tüysüz

Name Phone E-Mail
Dr. Sharif Najafishirtari +49 203 379 8234 E-Mail
Eko Budiyanto +49 208 306 2374 E-Mail
Anna Rabe +49 201 183 3379 E-Mail

 

C2 - Spray-Flame Synthesis of Catalyst Nanoparticles

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Christof Schulz

Name Phone E-Mail
Dr. Hartmut Wiggers +49 203 379 8087 E-Mail
Steven Angel +49 203 379 8084 E-Mail

 

C3 - Synthesis of Spinel-Type Materials with Tailored Composition and Morphology

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Stephan Schulz

Name Phone E-Mail
Dr. Georg Bendt +49 201 183 2137 E-Mail
Dr. Sascha Saddeler +49 201 183 6152 E-Mail

 

C4 - Identifying Composition-Processing-Structure-Defect-Property Correlations in Continuous A-B-O Thin-Film Composition Spreads

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alfred Ludwig, Jun. Prof. Dr. Tong Li

Name Phone E-Mail
Dr. Aleksander Kostka +49 234 322 8982 E-Mail
Dr. Yujiao Li +49 234 322 6160 E-Mail
Dr. Sigurd Thienhaus +49 234 322 9972 E-Mail
Chenglong Luan +49 234 322 9932 E-Mail
Tobias Piotrowiak +49 234 32 29397 E-Mail
Xiao Wang +49 234 322 9898 E-Mail
Weikai Xiang +49 234 322 9932 E-Mail

 

C5 - Pulsed Laser Post Processing of Transition Metal Oxide Nanocatalysts with Defined Defect Structure

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Barcikowski

Name Phone E-Mail
Dr. Sven Reichenberger +49 203 379 8118 E-Mail
Swen Zerebecki +49 203 379 8119 E-Mail

  

C6 - Metal‐organic frameworks as molecularly defined single‐site catalysts and precursor species for bimetallic Co/Fe materials in liquid phase oxidation reactions

Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kleist

Name Phone E-Mail
Milada Teubnerova +49 234 32 19082 E-Mail

Area S - Characterization

S - Materials Characterization at the Interdisciplinary Center for Analytics on the Nanoscale (ICAN)

Principal Investigator: Apl. Prof. Dr. Nils Hartmann

Name Phone E-Mail
Prof. Dr. Frank-J. Meyer zu Heringdorf +49 203 379 8041 E-Mail
Dr.-Ing. Steffen Franzka +49 203 379 8031 E-Mail
Dr. Ulrich Hagemann +49 203 379 8035 E-Mail
Dr. Markus Heidelmann +49 203 379 8037 E-Mail

Associated members

Name Phone E-Mail

Prof. Dr. Corina Andronescu

Technical Chemistry
Faculty of Chemistry
University of Duisburg-Essen

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Prof. Dr. Kai Exner

Theoretical Inorganic Chemistry
Faculty of Chemistry
University of Duisburg-Essen

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Prof. Dr. R. Kramer Campen

Experimental Physics
Faculty of Physics
University of Duisburg-Essen

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Alumni

Many thanks to our former co-workers for their work and all the best for their future.

  • Baris Alkan, Project C2
  • Sven Anke, Project A1
  • Dr. Stefan Barwe, Project A2
  • Arcesio Castaneda-Medina, Project B8
  • Dr. Yen-Ting Chen, Project A2
  • Malini Dasgupta, Project C2
  • Abdelilah El-Arrassi, Project A2
  • Dr. Marius Frank, Project A5
  • Dr. Hamidreza Hajiyani, Project B4
  • Dr. Dario Grochla, Project C4
  • Marin Karimnia, Project A2
  • Dr. Alexander Klyushin, Project B7
  • Dr. Detlef Kramczynski, Project B1
  • Dr. Zhibin Liu, Project A2
  • Katharina Maus, Project B5
  • Setareh Medghalchi, Project C4
  • Dr. Dulce Morales, Project A2
  • Dr. Klaus Friedel Ortega, Projects A1, C1
  • Dr. Sergjey Peredkov, Project B6
  • Oliver Pfingsten, Project B3
  • Dr. Ruben Rizo Parraga, Project A4
  • Paul Sela, Project C2
  • Tsvetan Tarnev, Project A2Dr. Benjamin van Kuiken, Project B6
  • Friedrich Waag, Project C5
  • Dirk Walecki, Project B2
  • Prof. Dr., emeritus Werner Keune, Projec B2