Independent research group leader - Dr. Jacob Schneidewind

Jacob Schneidewind, Dr
Jacob Schneidewind
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Research Interests

  • Solar energy and green hydrogen
  • Photocatalytic water splitting
  • Organometallic and photochemistry
  • Mechanistic studies (spectroscopy, kinetics, computational chemistry)
  • Techno-economic analysis and method development

Education and Professional Experience

2023 -  Independent research group leader at CEEC Jena (FSU Jena)
2022 - 2023

Independent research group leader at Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen

2021 PostDoc at Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen (Prof. Walter Leitner)
2017 - 2021

PhD at Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (Prof. Matthias Beller)

2016 - 2017

Chemistry studies at University of Rostock (B.Sc. and M.Sc.)

2015

Research stay at Univeristy of Toronto (Prof. Robert H. Morris)

2014 - 2015 Undergraduate studies (liberal arts) and research (Prof. Kang Hway Chuan) at Yale-NUS College, Singapore
2012 - 2014 Dual enrolment studies (Schülerstudium, chemistry) at University of Cologne

Awards and Scholarships

Jahr Auszeichnung/Stipendium
2024 - BMBF independent research group "SINATRA: SolSTEP"
2022 - 2023 Liebig Fellowship by Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
2022 Carl Roth Award of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)
2021 „summa cum laude“ distinction for PhD at University of Rostock
2018 - 2020 Kekulé PhD fellowship by Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
2014 - 2017 Fellow of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)