Dennis Hetterscheid tries to understand and mimic bioinorganic multi-electron processes that are relevant to our future energy infrastructure. The research of Dennis Hetterscheid is carried out both in the MCBIM and CASC research groups of Leiden University.

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Curriculum Vitae

Personal information

Nationality:   Dutch
Date of birth:   6 October 1978

Education

2007   PhD, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 15 March 2007.
Thesis title: "The chemistry of organometallic Rh^II and Ir^II complexes"
Advisors: Prof. B. de Bruin and Prof. A.E. Rowan
2002   MSc in Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen

Current and previous research positions

2018 – now     Associate professor, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University the Netherlands
2013 – 2018     Tenure Track Assistant professor, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University the Netherlands
2009 – 2012   Post-doctoral Researcher, Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, supported by a Veni fellowship (Prof. J.N.H. Reek)
2007 – 2008   Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States, supported by a Rubicon Fellowship (Prof. R.R. Schrock)

Grants, awards, recognitions

2019   EU ERC Proof of Concept grant (k€ 150)
2018   NWO Mat4Sus grant (k€ 700) in collaboration with Prof. Jarl Ivar van der Vlugt (Oldenburg) and Dr. Stefania Grecea (University of Amsterdam)
2014   FOM ‘CO₂ neutral fuels’ programme grant with M.T.M. Koper and E. Bouwman (k€ 464)
2014   NWO-CW ECHO-STIP grant (k€ 260)
2014   EU ERC Starting Grant (k€ 1,500)

Contribution to teaching and supervision

• Teaching the courses “Statistische Thermodynamica en Spectroscopie” (BSc), “Bioinorganic Catalysis” (MSc), “Anthropocene, the Era of Man” (BSc), and “the Group Project on Sustainable Chemistry and Biotechnology” (BSc)
• Content coordinator of the minor on Sustainable Chemistry and Biotechnology
• Member of the Education boards of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) and the Netherlands Institute for Catalysis Research (NIOK)
• Member of the Chemistry MSc Program committee until 2022
• Member of the Molecular Science and Technology exam committee since 2022, and chair from November 2023 onwards

Supervision of 15 PhD students since 2013.

Other responsibilities

• Chair of the Advisory Board of the Wiley journal ChemistrySelect
• Member of the Advisory board of EurJIC
• Guest editor of the EurJIC special issue on Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms
• Co-organizer of the Kroese-Duijsters Symposium 2023 on “Reaction mechanisms in heterogeneous, inorganic and biological electro(photo)catalysis”

Publication record including five recent representative publications

>60 papers with >3000 citations, H-index 27 (Web of Science)

Full publication record: ResearcherID

• Den Boer, D., Hetterscheid, D. G. H. Correlations between the electronic structure and energetics of the catalytic steps in homogeneous water oxidation catalysis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c05741
• Langevelde P.H. van, Engbers S., Buda F., Hetterscheid D.G.H. Elucidation of the Electrocatalytic Nitrite Reduction Mechanism by Bio-Inspired Copper Complexes. ACS Catalysis, 2023, 13, 10094-10103. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c01989
• Langevelde, P.H. van, Kounalis, E., Killian, L., Monkcom, E.C., Broere, D.L.J., Hetterscheid, D.G.H. Mechanistic Investigations into the Selective Reduction of Oxygen by a Multicopper Oxidase T3 Site-Inspired Dicopper Complex. ACS Catalysis, 2023, 13, 5712-5722. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c01143
• D’Agostini, S., Kottrup, K.G., Casadevall, C., Gamba, I., Dantignana, V., Bucci,A., Costas,M., Lloret-Fillol, J., Hetterscheid, D.G.H. Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation with α-[Fe(mcp)(OTf)2] and Analogues. ACS Catal. 2021, 11, 2583–2595. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c05439
• Langerman, M., Hetterscheid, D.G.H. Fast Oxygen Reduction Catalyzed by a Copper(II) Tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine Complex through a Stepwise Mechanism. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 12974–12978. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201904075

Presentations including five presentations at international conferences

Several invited presentations at universities, institutes, and invited lectures at international conferences.

• 44^th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, August 28th – September 2nd 2022, Rimini, Italy
• nanoGe Materials for Sustainable Development Conference, March 6th – March 10th 2023, Valencia, Spain
• 240^th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, October 10th – October 14th 2021, Digital Meeting
• QBIC Society Award Symposium, July 5th and 7th 2021, Digital Meeting
• International Solar Fuels Conference 2021, July 26th – July 29th 2021, Digital Meeting

Publications