Research Interests

  • Photoelectrochemistry, Photocatalysis, Solar energy conversion and storage
  • Artificial photosynthesis, Solar fuels, Water splitting
  • Photocatalytic degradation of harmful pollutants
  • Light-driven selective synthesis of high-value chemicals from low-cost feedstock
  • Photoelectrochemical sensors
  • Light-driven self-propelling microsystems

  • Custom-made irradiation system for wavelength-resolved photocurrent measurements (IPCE) (Instytut Fotonowy)
  • Potentiostat SP-300; incl. FRA + low-current option (BioLogic)
  • 2 x 150 W Xenon lamps (L.O.T.-Oriel) + cut-off filters
  • 2 x Home-made set-up for photocatalytic activity measurements under simulated sunlight
  • Chamber furnace (Carbolite, ELF 11/23/E301) and tube furnace (carbolite, MTF 12/38/400/E301)
  • UV-Vis spectrophotometer incl. diffuse refelectance accssory for solid samples (Shimadzu UV-2600)
  • UV-Vis spectrophotometer incl. fiber optic probe (Agilent Cary 60)
  • Fluorescence spectrophotometer (Shimadzu RF-6000)
  • FTIR spectrometer incl. DRIFTS (Shimadzu IRTracer-100, Harrick)
  • HPLC (Shimadzu Prominence)
  • Gas chromatograph (Shimadzu Tracera)
  • Oxygen meters (Inolab Oxi 740 SET; OxySense 325i)
  • Further spectroscopic, microscopic and surface science techniques available within the Ulm University

Prof. Timo Jacob (Ulm)

Prof. Benjamin Dietzek-Ivanšić (Jena)

Prof. Carsten Streb (Mainz)

Prof. Christine Kranz (Ulm)

Prof. Sven Rau (Ulm)

Prof. Anjana Devi (Bochum)

Prof. Andrey Turchanin (Jena)

Prof. Ute Kaiser (Ulm)

Prof. Alexander J. Kühne (Ulm)

Prof. James R. Durrant (Imperial College London, UK)

Dr. Oleksiy V. Khavryuchenko (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Prof. Wojciech Macyk (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

Prof. Markku Leskelä (Helsinki, Finland)

Prof. Maytal Caspary Toroker (Technion, Haifa, Israel)

Prof. Krzysztof Kruczała (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

Dr. Igor Krivtsov (Oviedo, Spain)