News
December 2023
October 2023
2023-10-18:
Lorenz was named one of TU Wien’s TUW under 30 (“die spannendsten 30 Köpfe unter 30”). The TUW Magazin article about him and his work can be found here.
Congratulations!!!
September 2023
2023-09-05:
Matthias joined the group, finishing his second (!) bachelor degree. He will work on the synthesis and characterization of cuprates.
August 2023
2023-08-31:
Tobi won the „Best Poster Award“ with his poster titled “Perovskite Oxides as Catalysts for Methanol Steam Reforming” at the Europacat 2023.
Congratulations!
2023-08-11:
Flo left for his adventure across the pond: He will spend the next 6 months working with Bilge Yildiz at MIT.
Regular updates on his “Marvellous and Interesting Times (MIT)” can be found here.
July 2023
2023-07-17:
Milos joined TUCAS to work on his bachelor thesis—dealing with the scale-up of Pechini syntheses of perovskites.
2023-07-04:
Jonathan, Raffael, and Tobias were awarded EURECA-PRO Travel Grants that cover their participation in the 3rd EURECA-PRO Conference in Greece. Congratulations!
2023-07-03:
Elena and David, students of the Europagymnasium Leoben, started their summer internship (FFG Talente Praktikum) in our group.
April 2023
2023-04-01:
Sadly, we have to report that Glix fell victim to a phase shift: Instead of making his flight to go to his backpacking trip, he got trapped in an equivalence-circuit of South East Asia.
March 2023
2023-03-24:
Glix (a.k.a. Christian) successfully defended his Master’s thesis. The newly minted Diplomingenieur will now spend some time backpacking through Thailand and Vietnam and then move on to do a PhD position with friend of TUCAS, Alex Opitz.
Congratulations and safe travels!
2023-03-14:
Dominic’s and Thomas‘ mini-review in was published in Chemical Communications.
Congratulations!
2023-03-10:
The NAP-XPS arrived (still in crates) in Leoben and is now waiting to be re-assembled at its new location. Glix is not happy about all the empty space in Vienna.
February 2023
2023-02-24:
The disassembly of the NAP-XPS is completed. Glix is „very not happy“ about losing one of his favourite toys.
2023-02-20:
The disassembly of the NAP-XPS (for the impending move to Leoben) has started.
October 2022
2022-10-03:
Thomas‘ paper „Designing Materials: Perovskites As Construction Kits“ was published in Frontiers for Young Minds.
Congratulations!
2022-10-01:
TUCAS and the AG Rameshan moved to the Montanuniversity Leoben, where Christoph starts his new job as full professor for „Electrochemical Energy Conversion“.
September 2022
2022-09-19:
Lorenz left for a 2-month research stay in São Paulo, Brazil, where he will work at the Sirius synchrotron. He will keep us updated with a travelblog, called „Lo’s Brazilian Briefings“ (oder auf Deutsch: „Los Sirius Saga“).
2022-09-12:
Jonathan joined our team to work on his bachelor thesis—he will investigate the effects of different parameters on our perovskite syntheses.
August 2022 (the month of good news for Flo)
2022-08-26:
Flo’s first high impact paper was published in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. Congratulations, Flo!!! 🥳
2022-08-23:
Flo won the Christiana Hörbiger Travel grant worth 10.000 €. He will spend this money to go abroad for six months next year: He will join Bilge Yildiz and her group at the MIT in Boston.
2022-08-20:
Flo’s submission to Applied Catalysis B: Envionmental was accepted. Congratulations!
July 2022
2022-07-11:
Eva Madersbacher starts her FFG Talente Praktikum today and will support our team for the next 4 weeks. Welcome to the team!
2022-07-11:
Tobias is currently in Ludwigshafen working for BASF during a 2-month summer internship. You can read about his adventures and travels in his blog he will update regularly (there is a German version as well).
2022-07-04:
Christian Melcher started the work for his master thesis this week. He will work on the characterisation of electrodes of solid oxide electrolysis cells using impedance spectroscopy and NAP-XPS.
June 2022
2022-06-09:
Johannes Bock joined our team as newest bachelor student. For his thesis, he will work on methanol steam reforming.
2022-06-08:
After almost 20 years in Chemistry, Christoph’s scientific journey culminates in a full professorship (“Electrochemical Energy Conversion”) at Montan University Leoben.
The first step of this journey was taken in 2007 when Christoph achieved his master’s degree in chemistry in Innsbruck. Then, he worked on his PhD as Max Planck fellow – jointly between the Fritz-Haber-Institute in Berlin and the University of Innsbruck (supervised by Bernhard Klötzer and Robert Schlögl) – which he finished in 2011.
After stays as postdoctoral researcher in Berkeley, CA (as Erwin Schrödinger Fellow) and Innsbruck (as Senior Post Doc), he came to the TU Wien in 2013 where he was in charge of the model catalysis group and started his Habilitation on “Model Catalysis: Bridging the Gap from UHV to Atmospheric Pressure by in situ Synchrotron Studies”. After finishing that in 2019, he became Assistant Professor in 2020 and Associate Professor in 2021.
In 2017, he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant (TUCAS), the follow-up proof-of-concept grant of which (TUCAS-CO2) was awarded last year. Also in 2021, Christoph joined the SFB TACO as co-PI.
This October, Christoph will move his group to Styria and become „Professor for Electrochemical Energy Conversion“ and head of the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the Montan University Leoben. There, he will continue his work on studying and designing novel oxide-based catalysts (e.g. perovskites) for CO2 conversion and „Power-to-X“ applications. Furthermore, he will expand his work on combining heterogeneous catalysis and electrochemistry for greenhouse gas utilization.
(2022-06-17: Due to complaints by Mrs. L., the image was updated.)
May 2022
2022-05-16:
Tom Cotter joined our team as Post-Doc. He will provide his knowledge about industrial processes and expertise in scaling-up to TUCAS.
2022-05-06:
Yesterday, Peter Amann – a collaborateur and friend of TUCAS – published a Science paper. Christoph is a co-author of the article titled “The state of zinc in methanol synthesis over a Zn/ZnO/Cu(211) model catalyst”.
Christoph contributed synchrotron measurements performed at DESY Hamburg and provided invaluable expertise on CuZn systems.
Congratulations to Christoph and all authors!
The full article can be found here (not open-access).
You can find a press release of Stockholm University abouth the article here.
April 2022
2022-04-01:
Sadly, after last year’s shrinkage-connected lab accident, we have to report another incident. Hedda, our resident data sorceress and expert in all things data evaluation related, got lost during her most recent expedition into the wild and untamed data forest. This is the last image she sent before all communication went dark.
Currently, we are setting up a rescue party of brave data scientists who are not afraid to venture into that dangerous and oftentimes unpleasant place to find and save Hedda.
February 2022
2022-02-07:
Christoph was awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant (TUCAS+CO2) to extend the results of his ERC grant TUCAS to industrial application. Congratulations!
The German press release of the TU Wien can be found here.
January 2022
2022-01-10:
Another bachelor student joins us to day to work on perovskites as catalysts for steam reforming. He will continue Patrick’s work on this topic.
2022-01-05:
Thomas‘ and Richard’s paper CO Oxidation Capabilities of La- and Nd-Based Perovskites has been published in Fuels.
Congratulations!
December 2021
2021-12-03:
Lorenz‘ and Joel’s paper In Situ Growth of Exsolved Nanoparticles under Varying rWGS Reaction Conditions—A Catalysis and Near Ambient Pressure-XPS Study has been published in Catalysts.
Congratulations!
October 2021
2021-10-19:
Today, we expand our team once more: Florian L. joins us for a couple of weeks to do finish his project thesis for his master in Technical Physics. He will use his expertise to improve our LabVIEW programs.
2021-10-07:
Christoph won his second
Best Teacher Award
of the Faculty of Chemistry
at the TU Wien.
September 2021
2021-09-28:
Thomas was presented with the
Poster Design Award
of the SFB TACO Kickoff Meeting for his poster titled „DFT Investigation of the effect of doping on CaMnO3„.
2021-09-23:
Lorenz won a
Graduate Student Award
of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) 2021 Fall Meeting for his contribution titled „Doped Perovskite Oxides as Versatile Catalysts towards Fuel Production„.
2021-09-22:
Flo was awarded a
Förderungspreis für Chemie 2021
by the Gesellschaft Österreichischer Chemiker (GÖCH) for his diploma thesis „CO2 Utilization via Methane Dry Reforming„.
2021-09-11:
Flo and Lorenz participated in the workshop „YEuCat Better Together“ in Segovia, Spain, which was even covered in the Spanish press.
August 2021
2021-08-02:
Today, Stylianos joined us for a 2-month IAESTE internship. He will be working on scaling up our catalytic processes.
July 2021
2021-07-12:
Today, we welcome a new TUCAS member again: Patrick will work on his bachelor thesis — extending Tobias‘ work on methanol steam reforming over copper catalysts.
June 2021
2021-06-28:
Florian defended Lorenz‘ title from last year and won the
Best Presenter Award
at the XVII International Forum-Contest of Students and Young Researchers in St. Petersburg in his breakout session „Chemical Technology of Natural Energy Sources, Carbon Materials and Inorganic Substances“.
This makes the second consecutive time this award goes to TUCAS.
2021-06-14:
A new member joined our group today: Tobias (Do not confuse with Tobias M.!) started his work on his bachelor thesis — using copper catalysts for methanol steam reforming.
May 2021
2021-05-15:
Flo was awarded a
Förderpreis 2021
by the Chemisch-Physikalische Gesellschaft (CPG) for his diploma thesis „CO2 Utilization via Methane Dry Reforming„.
2021-05-15:
Our team was expanded once more: David joined us to work on his bachelor thesis – setting up virtual reality vizualisations for teaching of physical chemistry.
2021-05-03:
Ramin joined our team and started work on his bachelor thesis — modifying our pervoskite materials (replacing expensive elements with cheaper ones).
April 2021
2021-04-06:
Lorenz first high-impact paper was published in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. Congratulations!
2021-04-01:
After a freak lab accident that shrunk Florian to atomic size (luckily he was wearing his protective goggles), we now can at least present the very first selfie taken on the surface of a catalyst. Communication is difficult, as the mobile reception is very bad, so we do not know much, however, we assume that the objects behind Flo are exsolved particles. And a step edge is visible far in the back as well.
Aside from being smaller than usual, Flo is fine and we are working tirelessly to undo the shrinkage.
March 2021
2021-03-01:
Tobias startet his work for his bachelor thesis as newest member of our team — setting a new reactor and testing possible perovskite synthesis routes.
February 2021
2021-02-01:
Tina joined our team and started work on her bachelor thesis — synthesizing new perovskites for methanol synthesis.
December 2020
2020-12-15:
Thomas‘ paper How Greenhouse Gases Can Be Used to Store Energy has been published in Frontiers for Young Minds. Congratulations!
Florian successfully defended his master thesis titled „CO2 utilization via methane dry reforming“. Congratulations to the newly minted „Diplom-Ingenieur“ and the newest member of the PhD squad!
November 2020
2020-11-24:
Lorenz‘ paper Ca-doped rare earth perovskite materials for tailored exsolution of metal nanoparticles has been published in Acta Crystallographica B. Congratulations!
Thomas‘ paper was accepted for publication in Frontiers for Young Minds. Congratulations!
2020-11-04:
Lorenz was a awarded a „Förderungspreis für Chemie“ by the GÖCH for his Diploma thesis, titled
„Structural and Chemical Characterisation of Doped Perovskites by XRD and XPS – Tailored Exsolution of Metal Nanoparticles“
October 2020
2020-10-17:
Raffael’s paper Novel Sample-Stage for Combined Near Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Catalytic Charakterization and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy has been published in Crystals. Congratulations!
2020-10-08: Lorenz‘ paper was accepted for publication in Acta Crystallographica B. Congratulations!
September 2020
From 21st to 23rd of September 2020 Lorenz attended the online Young Chemists Summit 2020, organized by the Young Chemists Austria. He presented a poster during the Postersession on Twitter and won the EYCN Poster Award, sponsored by the European Young Chemists‘ Network!
The new webpage of our ERC project TUCAS goes live.