Peter Strasser#
| Membership Number: | 6676 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.tu.berlin/technischechemie |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3884-436X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 - present Chaired Full Professorship (W3) in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (Technische Chemie), Technical University Berlin, Germany, Department of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Division
- 2004 - 2007 Assistant Professor, University of Houston, Houston, TX, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- 2001 - 2004 Senior Staff Scientist/Group Leader - Electronic Materials/ Heterogeneous Catalysis group, Symyx Technologies Inc., Santa Clara, CA
- 2000 - 2001 Postdoctoral Research, Symyx Technologies Inc., Santa Clara, CA
- 1996 - 1997 Visiting scientist, Frontier Materials Science Laboratory, Sony Corporation, Yokohama, Japan
Fields of Scholarship
- CO2 electroreduction
- Electrocatalysis and electrochemistry
- Physical chemistry of electrified solid-liquid Interfaces
- Electrochemical Oxygen Evolution Reaction
- Structure-Function Relations in electrocatalysis using in-situ spectroscopy, microscopy, and scattering
- Materials Science of electrocatalytic energy storage and conversion
- Electrocatalytic activation and valorization of small molecules
- Mechanistic and kinetic analysis of electrochemical reaction processes
- Synthesis of energy materials with focus on shape-controlled nanostructures
- Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Honours and Awards
- 2023 The Electrochemical Society: Carl Wagner Memoral Award
- 2023 Fellow of The Electrochemical Society (ECS)
- 2022 Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISC)
- since 2018 Listed as “Highly Cited Researcher”
- 2021 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC): Faraday Medal
- 2021 International Society of Electrochemistry: Brian Conway Prize for Physical Electrochemistry
- 2021 International Fuel Cell Forum: Christian Friedrich Schönbein Metal of Honor in Gold
- 2018 International Association of Hydrogen Energy: Energy Sir William Grove Award for achievement and leadership in Electrochemistry
- 2018 Guest Professorship at Tongji University, Shanghai, China
- 2016 German Catalysis Society : DECHEMA Otto-Roelen Medal for outstanding scientific Achievements in Catalysis
- 2016 Gerhard Ertl Center for Electrochemistry and Catalysis, Korea : Ertl Prize
- 2000 Max-Planck Society, Germany: Otto-Hahn Research Medal 1999
