Team

Team members

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• Franziska Hess

  Junior Professor
• Doris Esser

  Secretary
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• Kathrin Berisha

  PhD student
  Kathrin works on modelling the reoxidation of CeCl₃ during the reactivation of the CeO₂ catalyst in the Deacon process using Density Functional Theory and Kinetic Monte Carlo Methods.
• Alexander Kafka

  PhD student
  Alexander works on modelling the formation of volatile PtO₂ from Pt alloy catalysts in oxidative catalysis, such as the Ostwald process, with the goal of enhancing long-term stability and reducing the loss of noble metal.
• Emmanuelle Hagopian

  M.Sc. student
  Emmanuelle studies the activation of O₂ over La_0.8Sr_0.8MnO₃-based SOFC electrodes using DFT.
• Thanika Schneider

  B.Sc. student
  Thanika studies the activity trends of the CH₄ + CO₂ -> CH₃COOH coupling reaction on transition metal surfaces using DFT calculations.