MA and PhD positions - Operando spectroscopy of carbon dioxide electroreduction to value added products over catalytic nanoparticles

The Charlotte Vogt Laboratory of Catalysis for Fuels of the Future at the Technion Institute for Technology is looking for excited, motivated Master and/or PhD students in topics in catalysis like CO2 conversion to valuable fuels and chemicals, but also ammonia synthesis from nitrogen. To study these reactions the Vogt lab is specialized in developing special spectroscopic methodologies (based for example on FT-IR spectroscopy, or X-ray absorption spectroscopy at synchrotrons) which allow us to study details of those reactions that we couldn’t study before. We study details like reaction mechanisms, catalyst structure-activity relationships to make those processes better, or to (help) to invent the new ones that are necessary to bridge the energy, climate, and materials crises that our global society are facing.