Four team members presented at the 16th edition of the International Workshop on Electrodeposited Nanostructures – EDNANO – from 10 to 12 April 2025 at the University of Florence, Italy
Covalent organic framework compounds are more active than one would expect as catalysts. Researchers from the Ruhr University Bochum and the Max Planck Institutes for Solid State Research (MPI-FKF) and Sustainable Materials (MPI-NM) recently decoded what can be the reason.
Dr. Jan Clausmeyer, Science Manager of the NanoEC group gave his insights into potential non-university career paths at a panel discussion for students of Natural and Life Sciences during the business college 2024 on Nov 11, held at the RUB
Lars J.C. Jeuken, Dennis G.H. Hetterscheid, Marc T.M. Koper, Carla Casadevall, Christophe Léger, Antoni Llobet, Ross D. Milton, Ryuhei Nakamura, Kristina Tschulik
On the panel “Erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit – Wissens- und Technologietransfer in der Praxis” Kristina Tschulik, spokesperson for the SFB/Transregio 247 and director of the Start4Chem incubator, reported on successes and hurdles in the transfer from research to industry.
The first ChemInnovation Summit organised by Start4Chem took place in the Worldfactory Start-up Centre (WSC).
An engaging Gallery Walk featuring experts and partners from the chemistry ecosystem, 10 innovative start-up teams pitching for micro-subsidies, and plenty of networking formed a fantastic atmosphere.
Once again this year, our group members Andriana Loukovitou, Paolo Cignoni, Gabriel Boitel-Aullen, Johanna Angona and Luca Sicking traveled to the DESY in Hamburg to carry out SAXS measurements.
Anyone who feels unsafe or uncomfortable on the way to the parking garage, bicycle rack or bus stop on the campus of Ruhr University Bochum can request accompaniment from the accompanying service.
Two members of our group, Anas Akhtar and Christoph Kaiser, participated in the “Chem Slam – Science Slam for Chemists”, organized by Start4Chem in the RUB Makerspace @WORLDFACTORY.
Our Christmas party this year took place at the RUB WorldFactory. We started creative in the MakerSpace, heard some lectures and finished together with a nice dinner…
Some of our group members at the 244th ECS Meeting. It was a week full of science exchange and fruitful electrochemical discussions. Our group contributed to the conference with poster and oral presentations.
Our group members Thais Schroeder Rossi, Paolo Cignoni, Andriana Loukovitou, Gabriel Boitel-Aullen and Luca Sicking went to the German Electron Synchrotron DESY in Hamburg to perform SAXS measurements.
On September 14th 2023, the group hiked down from ZEMOS to the river ruhr and enjoyed a picnic feast with lots of international food. Some have been observer swimming, others playing spike ball or relaxing in the sun…
Our research on oxidation catalysis in collaboration with the Pentcheva group from UDE caught the attention of international press. Can you find the three mistakes they’ve added to the text?? Read the full article…
We are happy to congratulate Niclas Blanc for having successfully passed his PhD. Niclas defended his thesis confidently and will now continue working in the group as a postdoc.
Our alumni Mathies, Abdel and Saw gave really nice talks about their current positions outside of academia. The day was full of a great exchange of experience and opportunities of one-to-one chat with the speakers.
Our group members Kevin Wonner, Thais Schroeder Rossi, Dean Nettler and Paolo Cignoni went to the German Electron Synchrotron DESY in Hamburg to perform SAXS measurements.
At the “PowertoX” workshop of the Hans-Riegel Foundation, Kristina Tschulik reported on new ways of green hydrogen production. Afterwards, interested people were able to visit our laboratories and find out about current research work in our group.
After a successful first funding phase, the Collaborative Research Center/Transregio SFB/TRR 247 entitled “Heterogeneous Oxidation Catalysis in the Liquid Phase” has now been extended by the German Research Foundation for another four years. In the second funding phase starting on 1st July 2022, Kristina Tschulik is the spokesperson of the SFB/TRR 247, with Prof. Dr. Stephan Schulz from the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) as co-spokesperson. Congratulations to all members!
You can find the full press release here.
Are you interested in the topic of starting a business and/or can see yourself taking an alternative career path?
Then the seminar “From Top-Level Science to Top-Level Business” from Start4Chem is the right choice for you.
You get the opportunity to work on your own ideas in interdisciplinary teams. We will provide you with the necessary tools and insights to bring your idea to life. We will give you access to the basics of entrepreneurial thinking and you will explore your own entrepreneurial potential.
The registration is open until the 25th october via e-campus. See flyer for more details
We are happy to congratulate Mahnaz very warmly on successfully passing her doctoral exam. Mahnaz was able to defend her thesis confidently and will also stay in our group for a while.
We sincerely congratulate Christian on successfully defending his doctoral thesis and are pleased that he will now continue to support our team as a PostDoc.
A warm welcome to Sheila Hernandez from the University of Burgos in Spain, who joins our team for a three-month research stay as part of her PhD studies.
Kristina Tschulik gave a lecture today at the “MINT TANK” of the Dr. Hans Riegel-Akademie to inspire pupils and undergraduate students for the exciting research questions in the field of nanoparticles and catalysis in the environment of the CRC247 and the ERC Projekt MITICAT.
The graduate school “Confinement-controlled Chemistry“ is looking for top-class graduate students (m/f/d) with an interest in exploring the influence of geometrical confinement on reactions.
Twelve PhD positions with 19,91 hours/week E13 TV-L for 3 years are available in the fields of supra-molecular chemistry, synchroton X-ray spectroscopy, advanced vibrational spectroscopy, single molecule imaging, and free energy simulations.
For further details please refer to the website of confinement-controlled-chemistry.de or Stellenwerk Bochum
We are very happy that our project “Microfluidic Tuning of Individual Nanoparticles to Understand and Improve Electrocatalysis” was selected for the Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC).
There is a (german only) article on the news.RUB site which gives a nice summary of the project and its contents and an english article on the RESOLV website. Read the full article…
We are very happy to announce that Kristina Tschulik has been elected into the NRW-Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. She was honored with this position in the division engineering and economics as one out of 15 outstanding scientists.
You can find the full article in German on the NEWS.RUB page.
We warmly welcome Julia Linnemann at the NanoEC research group. She will establish a junior research group focusing on shape-dependent electrochemistry in the context of energy storage and conversion.
We are happy for Kannasoot who has been selected to attend this year’s 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
Here, he will meet around 70 Nobel Laureates from interdiciplinary topics which matches very nicely his current research on merging engineering and scientific knowledge to develop fundamental tools for deeper understanding in single-entity electrochemistry.
Great news: our joint EU project with the University of Maastricht, Garlock and Yookr has been granted.
Looking forward to an exciting cooperation on the production of smart sensors for the process industry!
Further information:news.RUB.de
At todays opening event for the new Start-Up center “Start4Chem” the center is introduced which is aimed to engage students of the Natural Sciences to also think along economic and entrepreneurial lines and to provide them with the practical tools needed to start a Start-Up.
Part of this is the lecture series “From top-level reseach to top-level business”.
A more detailed report can be found on the RESOLV site or (in german) on the NEWS-Site of RUB.
Because of the weather we had to change our teambuilding event from the planned canoeing trip to an afternoon in the beach-club. Here we played beach volleyball, dodgeball and badminton in the sand.
That’s what makes Gordon Conferences so special… At the conference with the topic “New Perspectives of Nanostructured Devices and High-Resolution Characterization Techniques” in Switzerland, Kevin presented his research on a poster and Kristina gave her invited talk. In between the sessions there was time for coffee & discussion while enjoying the stunning view.
Last week, Kristina and Julia traveled to the French island of Oléron to attend the 13th ECHEMS Meeting. Here, electrochemistry for symmetry breaking in molecules, materials and processes was discussed in the pleasant and personal atmosphere of a conference with 67 participants from 17 countries.
We are looking for a PhD student / postgraduate researcher (m/f/d) for project A2 within the collaborative research Center Transregio 247 (SFB TRR 247) “Heterogeneous Oxidation Catalysis in the Liquid Phase”, which is funded by the German Research Foundation DFG.
Please find all information about the position and the application process on the project homepage.
As part of the FP-RESOMUS program, our group offers two postdoctoral positions focusing on “A novel spectro-electrochemical cell for VCD measurements: Chiral radical anions and their optical properties” and “Tracking charge transfer processes at nanoparticles by in situ electrochemical fluorescence and AFM”.
For conditions, description as well as applicant information, please refer to the project page.
As part of the SENTINEL program, our group offers a position as “early stage researcher” focusing on “Nanoscale Electrocatalysis with Nano Impacts”.
For conditions, description as well as applicant information, please refer to the job advertisement or the project page.
Just in time for the start of the new year, we are pleased about the growth of our group.
We are pleased to welcome our new secretary Melanie Fabri, who will support us in the future with all administrative tasks. Furthermore, we are pleased about Jazlynn who visits us for a few months as an exchange scientist from the USA, about Andrii and Yaroslav who carry out their in-depth practicals with us and Maili who is doing a pupil internship in our group.
Congratulations to Kevin Wonner for receiving the Wilke-Award for Best Master’s Degree in 2018 in Chemistry. The prize was presented as part of the graduation ceremony 2018 on December 14th.
We are pleased that he now also starts his PhD in the working group.
This week Mahsa, Mathies and Julia are in Ulm at the Electrochemistry 2018 conference of GDCH to present their latest results in nanoparticle research.
The conference topic is: “Electrochemical Surface Science: From Fundamentals to Applications”.
1 out of 1150: We welcome back our ISE delegates and congratulate Mathies to the ISE poster award! His poster about ‘Nanoreactor impact Experiments for Electrochemical Particle Deposition’ was awarded with one of the poster prizes. What a worthwhile trip to Bologna.
Kevin, Julia, Mathies, Kristina, Saw, Kannasoot and Abdel are not only enjoing the scientific exchange in Bologna at the annual ISE meeting, they also follow the historic tracks of Luigi Galvani, but without harming any frogs.
Last week Markus visited the EDNANO 13 conference in Bristol – UK, to present his poster about AAO based nanowire deposition and listen to innovative presentations.
This week Kristina and several of our PhDs are at the 69th Annual ISE Meeting in Bologna – Italy to give talks and present their research on posters.
Kristina was awarded the “Early Career Analytical Electrochemistry Prize of ISE Division 1”.
Prof. Dr. Kristina Tschulik has been inaugurated as a full professor today. With this she becomes chairholder of the new chair of “Analytical Chemistry II for Electrochemistry and Nanoscale Materials”.
Furthermore, we are happy to welcome Julia Linnemann as post-doc scientist in our group and wish her all the best and hope for good collaboration.
From May 27th to 31th the international Fischer Symposium is taking place in Seeon. From our group Kevin Wonner, Niclas Blanc and Kristina Tschulik are there, presenting posters with their recent research.
Main topics of the conference are:
Currently, there are open positions in our group in the project of “Confinement-controlled Chemistry”.
Projects B2 (Altered Electrochemistry in 0D Confinement) and B3 (Altered Electrochemistry in 1D Confinement) ar available in this working group.
You can find detailed information about the projects and the aplication on the homepage of the Gradiertenkolleg.
From March 26th to 30th Christian and Markus will travel to Siofok – Hungary to attend the third COST e-MINDS Training School. Despite the talks and presentations of the other participants these are the three main topics:
Organic and bio-organic functionalization of electrodes
Mathies Evers will spend the next three month at Skoltech Institute of Science and Technology in Moscow. For saying goodbye we went to a shushi restaurant together.
En Ning Saw will spend the next three month at the ETH Zürich in the working group of Dr. Salvador Pané i Vidal for a research visit. Our group used the current weather in Bochum to prepare him for the temperatures in switzerland.
We rebuilt and redesigned our website so that it is now a responsive design which can be displayed on mobile devices.
We apologize for possible bugs or problems with the new site and are happy to receive your feedback or bug reports to the contact address.
By participation in the COST e-MINDS workshops at the “Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona” from October 25th to 27th, interesting insights into the research of other working groups could be gained. Additionally the networking between the international participants was in focus of the workshop.
This allows her to join the ITODYS laboratory for 6 weeks, experience the vibrant electrochemistry community in Paris and visit the many world-leading electrochemistry research groups located in and around Paris.
Université Paris Diderot
Nanoparticles can be the key to sustainable energy technologies. These are investigated by Kristina Tschulik. She has been awarded for her work. Read more in the news section of the Ruhr-University Bochum: RUB-Forscherin erhält Joachim-Walther-Schultze-Preis
We moved to the new ZEMOS, the Center for Solvation Science! In this building, researchers are dedicated to understanding and exploiting solvation in chemical processes, connecting solvation dynamics with biomolecular function, and studying the ion solvation and charge transfer at interfaces. Here you can see the first impressions.
We would like to congratulate our PhD students En Ning Saw and Abdelilah El-Arrassi on each winning a scholarship! En Ning Saw is now a scholar of the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV in which scientists investigate solvation at a fundamental level of chemistry, physics and engineering. Abdelilah El-Arrassi became a scholar of the Avicenna Studienwerk, which funds outstandingly talented and socially engaged muslim students in all fields of studies.
Some of our group members at the 244th ECS Meeting. It was a week full of science exchange and fruitful electrochemical discussions. Our group contributed to the conference with poster and oral presentations. 
Our group members Thais Schroeder Rossi, Paolo Cignoni, Andriana Loukovitou, Gabriel Boitel-Aullen and Luca Sicking went to the German Electron Synchrotron DESY in Hamburg to perform SAXS measurements. 
On September 14th 2023, the group hiked down from ZEMOS to the river ruhr and enjoyed a picnic feast with lots of international food. Some have been observer swimming, others playing spike ball or relaxing in the sun… 
During the 10th ElecNano in Paris, the poster presented by Annika Just was awarded 
The team enjoyed 2 hours intensive beachvolleyball… 
What an amazing response on the news of Kristina’s appointment at as an editor of ACS Catalysis. Seems this will demand for some celebratory cake…
Our research on gaining molecular insight into the electrical double layer caught the attention of international press.
The shape of nanoparticles is a decisive factor in their efficiency as catalysts for the production of green hydrogen.
We are happy to congratulate Niclas Blanc for having successfully passed his PhD. Niclas defended his thesis confidently and will now continue working in the group as a postdoc. 
Our alumni Mathies, Abdel and Saw gave really nice talks about their current positions outside of academia. The day was full of a great exchange of experience and opportunities of one-to-one chat with the speakers.
2 out of the 3 poster prize awards of RESOLV Klausurtagung 2022 were from NanoEC: Thais Schroeder Rossi (1st place) and Christoph Bondü (3rd place). 
Our group members Kevin Wonner, Thais Schroeder Rossi, Dean Nettler and Paolo Cignoni went to the German Electron Synchrotron DESY in Hamburg to perform SAXS measurements. 
Congratulations Kevin Wonner for having successful finished his PhD time with an excellent disputation. 
Congratulations Maximilian Jaugstetter for having successful finished his PhD time with an excellent disputation. 
At the “PowertoX” workshop of the Hans-Riegel Foundation, Kristina Tschulik reported on new ways of green hydrogen production. Afterwards, interested people were able to visit our laboratories and find out about current research work in our group. 
After a successful first funding phase, the Collaborative Research Center/Transregio SFB/TRR 247 entitled “Heterogeneous Oxidation Catalysis in the Liquid Phase” has now been extended by the German Research Foundation for another four years. In the second funding phase starting on 1st July 2022, Kristina Tschulik is the spokesperson of the SFB/TRR 247, with Prof. Dr. Stephan Schulz from the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) as co-spokesperson. Congratulations to all members!
Congratulations Markus for having successfully finished your PhD time with a great disputation. 
Congratulations Dr. Kannasoot for having successful finished your PhD time with an excellent disputation. 
We are happy to congratulate Mahnaz very warmly on successfully passing her doctoral exam. Mahnaz was able to defend her thesis confidently and will also stay in our group for a while. 
We sincerely congratulate Christian on successfully defending his doctoral thesis and are pleased that he will now continue to support our team as a PostDoc. 
A warm welcome to Sheila Hernandez from the University of Burgos in Spain, who joins our team for a three-month research stay as part of her PhD studies.
Kristina Tschulik gave a lecture today at the “MINT TANK” of the Dr. Hans Riegel-Akademie to inspire pupils and undergraduate students for the exciting research questions in the field of nanoparticles and catalysis in the environment of the CRC247 and the ERC Projekt MITICAT. 
Congratulations to Zhibin for having succefully finished his PhD. We wish you all the best for your future. 
We are very happy to announce that Kristina Tschulik has been elected into the NRW-Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. She was honored with this position in the division engineering and economics as one out of 15 outstanding scientists.
We are happy for Kannasoot who has been selected to attend this year’s 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
This time our groupevent was in an escape room in the Bochum city-center. Luckily all teams managed to solve the riddles and could leave the rooms.
Great news: our joint EU project with the University of Maastricht, Garlock and Yookr has been granted.
Looking forward to an exciting cooperation on the production of smart sensors for the process industry!
Further information:news.RUB.de 
Congratulations Dr. Abdel for having succefully finshed your PhD time with an excellent disputation. 
We celebrated the end of the year with our traditional christmas party. Highlight of the evening was “Schrottwichteln” and the Feuerzangenbowle. 
Congrats to En Ning Saw for his successful PhD defence. He is the first PhD student to finish his PhD in our group. 
At todays opening event for the new Start-Up center “Start4Chem” the center is introduced which is aimed to engage students of the Natural Sciences to also think along economic and entrepreneurial lines and to provide them with the practical tools needed to start a Start-Up.
Because of the weather we had to change our teambuilding event from the planned canoeing trip to an afternoon in the beach-club. Here we played beach volleyball, dodgeball and badminton in the sand. 
That’s what makes Gordon Conferences so special… 
Last week, Kristina and Julia traveled to the French island of Oléron to attend the 13th ECHEMS Meeting. Here, electrochemistry for symmetry breaking in molecules, materials and processes was discussed in the pleasant and personal atmosphere of a conference with 67 participants from 17 countries. 
Twice we made it to the news page of our university this week.
This week Mahsa, Mathies and Julia are in Ulm at the Electrochemistry 2018 conference of GDCH to present their latest results in nanoparticle research. 
1 out of 1150: We welcome back our ISE delegates and congratulate Mathies to the ISE poster award! 
Last week Markus visited the EDNANO 13 conference in Bristol – UK, to present his poster about AAO based nanowire deposition and listen to innovative presentations.
We welcome Maximilian Jaugstetter in the group who joins as a PhD student in the new Graduate School Confinement controlled chemistry. 
Kristina Tschulik received the Hellmuth-Fischer medal of DECHEMA Gesellschaft für Chemische Technik und Biotechnologie e.V. for her work in electrochemistry, corrosion and corrosion protection. 
From May 27th to 31th the international Fischer Symposium is taking place in Seeon. From our group Kevin Wonner, Niclas Blanc and Kristina Tschulik are there, presenting posters with their recent research.
From March 26th to 30th Christian and Markus will travel to Siofok – Hungary to attend the third COST e-MINDS Training School. Despite the talks and presentations of the other participants these are the three main topics:
Mathies Evers will spend the next three month at Skoltech Institute of Science and Technology in Moscow. 
En Ning Saw will spend the next three month at the ETH Zürich in the working group of Dr. Salvador Pané i Vidal for a research visit. Our group used the current weather in Bochum to prepare him for the temperatures in switzerland. 
Nanoparticles can be the key to sustainable energy technologies. These are investigated by Kristina Tschulik. She has been awarded for her work. Read more in the news section of the Ruhr-University Bochum: RUB-Forscherin erhält Joachim-Walther-Schultze-Preis 
The paper “Magnetic control: Switchable ultrahigh magnetic gradients at Fe3O4 nanoparticles to enhance solution-phase mass transport” by K. Ngamchuea, K. Tschulik*, und R. G. Compton* was selected by the journal Nano Research as the Paper of the Month. 
Kristina Tschulik moves from Oxford Universitsy to the RUB where she holds the “Junior Professship for Micro-/Nano-Electrochemistry”. 
On September 14th 2023, the group hiked down from ZEMOS to the river ruhr and enjoyed a picnic feast with lots of international food. Some have been observer swimming, others playing spike ball or relaxing in the sun… 
During the 10th ElecNano in Paris, the poster presented by Annika Just was awarded 
The team enjoyed 2 hours intensive beachvolleyball… 
That’s what makes Gordon Conferences so special… 
This week Mahsa, Mathies and Julia are in Ulm at the Electrochemistry 2018 conference of GDCH to present their latest results in nanoparticle research. 
En Ning Saw will spend the next three month at the ETH Zürich in the working group of Dr. Salvador Pané i Vidal for a research visit. Our group used the current weather in Bochum to prepare him for the temperatures in switzerland.