2025

14 February: Dr. Alexandr N. Simonov
School of Chemistry, Monash University, Australia
Sustainable electrosynthesis of hydrogen and ammonia

5 February: Van Marum Mini Symposium
Prof. Harold Zandvliet
University of Twente
Germanene: a monoelemental 2D topological insulator

Prof. Richard van de Sanden
Technical University Eindhoven
 

20 January: Prof. José Ramón Galán
ICIQ, Spain
Electrocatalytic Water Splitting Under External Magnetic Fields: Mechanistic Understanding and Experimental Evidences

2024

5 December: Prof. Kristina Tschulik
Ruhr University Bochum
Exploiting Single Nanoparticle and Spectro-Electrochemistry to Explore Solvent and Anion Adsorption at Metals

28 October: Dr. Christoph Bondü
Ruhr University Bochum
Fundamental Insights into Electrochemical Aldehyde Oxidation: Curiosities and Lessons for Novel Electrode Concepts

21 October: Dr. Koen van der Ham
Netherlands Forensic Institute
Determining the recovery efficiency of gunshot residue with stubs

8 October: Prof. Arjan Houtepen
TU Delft
Guilty as charged: Electrochemical control over the charge carrier density in colloidal semiconductor nanomaterials

25 September: Dr. Yujin Tong
University of Duisburg-Essen
Ultrafast electrochemistry beyond the RC time constant

22 July: Prof. Ali Seifitokaldani
McGill University, Canada
Catalyst Design at Extremely Small Sizes: From CO2 Reduction to Ammonia Production

22 July: Prof. Bingjun Xu
College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
Concerted Cation-Electron Transfer at Pt(111)/Perfluoro-Sulfonic Acid Ionomer Interface

10 July: Dr. Francesco De Bon
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Large-Scale Polymer Synthesis by Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerizations with Molecular Oxygen Reduction Reaction

24 June: Dr. Hirokazu Ueta
Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)
Hydrogen interactions with metal surfaces: nuclear spin conversion and adsorption

20 June: Dr. Smaranda Marinescu
University of Southern California, USA
Biologically Inspired Catalytic Systems for Solar-to-Fuel Technologies

14 June: Dr. Charlotte Vogt
Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Unraveling Catalytic Reactions at the Solid-Gas and Solid-Liquid Interface – Active Sites and their Surroundings

11 June: Dr. Roland Bliem
ARCNL
Surface chemistry studies for plasma applications

22 May: Prof. Alec Wodtke
Max Planck Institut, Germany
High precision kinetics of elementary surface reactions: Quantitative comparison of experiment and theory

14 May: Prof. James Mayer
Yale University, USA
Proton-coupled electron transfer at interfaces: the importance of non-ideal isotherms

7 May: Prof. Feng Jiao
Washington University, St. Louis, USA
CO₂ Electrolysis Systems for Chemical and Food Production

24 April: Dr. Andrea Auer
University of Innsbruck, Austria/University of Regensburg, Germany
Visualizing electrified solid-liquid interfaces

9 April: Prof. Gerard J. van Rooij
Maastricht University
Plasma Chemistry to aid the Energy and Materials Transition in the Process Industry

27 March: Prof. Hyeon Suk Shin
Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea)
Hexagonal and amorphous boron nitride thin films

26 March: Dr. Hao Yang
KTH Stockholm, Sweden
Polymeric heterogeneous water oxidation catalysts with molecular metal sites

19 March: Aude Salamé
Laboratoire d'Electrochimie Moléculaire, Université Paris Cité
Unraveling the mechanism of CO2 catalytic reduction by an iron porphyrin through spectroelectrochemical analysis

5 March: Prof. Thomas Heine
TU Dresden
Magnetic Carbon

13 February: Prof. Chenghao Chuang
Tamkang University, Taiwan
The in-situ observation for electrochemical energy experiment by Operando X-ray spectroscopy

30 January: Dr. Jing Guo
Catalysis & Surface Chemistry, Leiden University
Probing the surface chemistry of water and carbon dioxide with qPlus-STM/AFM

2023

7 December: Dr. Dusan Strmcnik
Argonne National Laboratory
Electrocatalytic transformations in Li-ion Battery Electrolytes

14 November: Dr. Manuel Landstorfer
WIAS Berlin
Thermodynamic modeling of the electrode-electrolyte interface - Double-layer capacitance, Solvation number, Validation

19 October: Zhu Zhang MSc
Utrecht University
Imaging Electrochemical Reactions by Operando Optical Microscopy

16 October: Rebecca K. Pittkowski
University of Copenhagen
Watching nanoparticles in action: Characterization of electrocatalysts with synchrotron X-ray techniques

18 August: Dr. Christoph Baeumer
University of Twente
Model Perovskite Oxide Electrocatalyst Surfaces

3 July: Van Marum Mini Symposium
Ludo Juurlink (LIC, Leiden University)
Per Hyldgaard (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Pascal Larregaray (CNRS, France)
Gil Alexandrowicz (Swansea University, UK)

28 June: Prof. Alexei A. Kornyshev
Imperial College London
Solvent-solute relation in the double layer theory: from diluted solutions to solvent-in-salt systems to ionic liquids

22 June: Dr. Jeffrey E. Dick
Purdue University, USA
Probing the Curious Chemistry in Micro- and Nanodroplets using Nanoelectrochemistry

21 June: Dr. Hideshi Ooka
RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan
Theoretical Advancements towards Predicting the Activity and Stability of Electrocatalysts using Microkinetics and Applied Mathematics

21 June: Prof. Ryuhei Nakamura
RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan
Extending the Lifetime of Oxygen Evolution Catalysis in Acid

12 June: Dr. Vincent Vivier
Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface, France
Impedance analysis of electrochemical system: recent advances on the study of capacitive systems

31 May: Dr. Matthijs van Spronsen
Beamline B07/VerSoX, Diamond Light Source Ltd
Pioneering techniques to probe the solid-liquid interface using the soft X-rays of the VerSoX beamline at Diamond Light Source

3 May: Dr. Emilia Olsson
Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography
Understanding Surfaces and Interfaces from the Atomic Scale – Applications to Batteries and Semiconductors

13 April: Dr. Jae Young Lee
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Scale-up Science in Electrolytic Processes

29 March: Dr. Andrew Akbashev
Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Complexity of Electrochemical and Electrocatalytic Reactions on Oxide Materials

24 March: Dr. Patrick Rinke
Aalto University, Finland
Active surface adsorbate structure and complex materials exploration with Bayesian optimization

9 March: Dr. Jakub Drnec
Head of Beamline ID31 @ ESRF, Grenoble
Shedding Synchrotron Light on Catalyst Atomic Rearrangement and Strain Dynamics in Electrochemical Environment

22 February: Prof. Rolf Schuster
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Beyond Cyclic Voltammetry: What can we learn by measuring Δ_RS and Δ_RV of electrochemical reactions?

7 February: Prof. Thomas Michely
University of Cologne
Crystal growth far from equilibrium: beauty and puzzles of Pt(111)

2022

21 December: Prof. Evgeny Pidko
TU Delft
Death and life of homogeneous carbonyl reduction catalysts: navigating condition space towards superior catalytic performance

20 December: Prof. Jan Rossmeisl
University of Copenhagen
Electrocatalysis at high entropy alloy surfaces

8 December: Prof. Timo Jacob
Director Institute of Electrochemistry, University of Ulm, Germany
Understanding Electrochemical Interfaces on the Atomic Scale

15 November: Dr. Dmitriy Borodin
Max Planck Institute, Germany
Making Kinetics at Surfaces a More Exact Science

24 October: Prof. Hannes Jónsson
University of Iceland
Theoretical studies of the structure and catalytic activity of metal nanoclusters

19 September: Dr. Marco Schönig
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Microcalorimetric investigation of the effect of ions on surface processes - From double layer charging to catalytic reactions

13 September: Prof. Philippe Vereecken
Scientific Director IMEC/Prof. University of Leuven, Belgium
The role of surface inhibition in the deterministic electrochemical fabrication of 2D and 3D nanostructures

12 September: Dr. Christian Reece
The Rowland Institute at Harvard, Harvard University, USA
Developing New Paradigms for Applied Catalytic Surface Science

5 September: Prof. Germano Tremiliosi-Filho
São Carlos Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo
Development of materials for hydrogen production via ethanol reform

25 August: Dr. Sheena Louisia
Leiden University, Berkeley
Monitoring the dynamics of the heterogeneous interface during electrocatalysis

23 August: Dr. Thom Hersbach
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Catalyzing Green Hydrogen: Tracking Iridium Oxide & Platinum Behavior During Catalysis