Thomas Albani joins the Kühnel Lab as from University of Milano-Bicocca as an intern funded by the an Eramsus⁺ mobility programme. Thomas will work on flow photochemistry for his Chemistry Master’s project.

Antonia Lämmle-Berkhan joins us as research intern as part of her Environmental Protection & Agricultural Food Production Master’s degree at Uni Hohenheim. She will work on biohybrid waste upgrading in collaboration with Christine Cavazza and Julien Pérard at CEA Grenoble.

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.