Ewan McQueen joins the Kühnel Lab as a postdoc funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Foundation. Ewan obtained his PhD in Seb Sprick’s lab at the University of Strathclyde, where he developed organc photocatalysts for hydrogen production and CO₂ reduction. Ewan will work on the ENERGASE project, in which we are developing a metal-free enzyme for hydrogen production in collaboration with the groups of Hajo Kries and Johannes Kästner at University of Stuttgart.

Dr. Michail Papadakis joins the Kühnel Lab as a DAAD ERA Green Hydrogen Fellow from Université Aix Marseille in France. Michail obtained his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Maylis Orio studying thiosemicarbazone-based complexes as HER co-catalysts. In his postdoctoral work, he will devlop novel hybrid photocatalysts for hydrogen generation and CO₂ reduction.

Dr. João Felipe Stival joins the Kühnel Lab as a DAAD ERA Green Hydrogen Fellow from Universidade Federal do Paraná in Brazil. João obtained his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Shirley Nakagaki in Curitiba on metal oxide-based photocatalysis. In his postdoctoral work, he will devlop novel hybrid photocatalysts for the photoreforming of waste.

Atekelte Kassa joins the Kühnel Lab from Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin. He holds a dual master’s in Materials Science and Energy Science & Engineering from TU Darmstadt and will embark on a PhD project in the field of intensified photocatalysis.