Electrochemistry

Evgeny Katz received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry (Moscow) in 1983. He was a senior researcher at the Institute of Photosynthesis (Pushchino), Russian Academy of Sciences (1983-1991), a Humboldt fellow at the Technische Universität München (Germany) (1992-1993), and a research associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1993-2006). Since 2006 he is Milton Kerker Chaired Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, NY (USA). He has (co)authored over 400 papers in the areas of biocomputing, bioelectronics, biosensors and biofuel cells. Thomson Reuters included him in the list of the world’s top 100 chemists over the past 10 years as ranked by the impact of their published research. Professor Katz was also included in the list of top cited chemists prepared by the Royal Society of Chemistry with the worldwide rank 378 based on his Hirsch-index, which is currently 81.

Bioelectronics, Bionanotechnology, Biosensors, Biomolecular computing, Biofuel cells.

Rolando Guidelli obtained his degree in Chemistry at Florence University, Italy, and was appointed by Florence University as a lecturer in Electrochemistry. He was then promoted to full professor of Electrochemistry at the age of 32 years in the Faculty of Science of Florence University. His scientific interests have been focused on electrode kinetics, structure of metal/water interfaces, and bioelectrochemistry. He has won several distinguished prizes in the field of electrochemistry and has published more than 230 papers in reputed journals and several book chapters. Furthermore, he has served as the organizer of several conferences in the field.

What Ion Flow Along Ion Channels Can Tell About Their Functional Activity

Pawel J. Kulesza is professor of chemistry at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His research interests concern various aspects nanostructured electrochemistry, materials and analytical chemistry and fundamental aspects of electrocatalysis, energy conversion and storage. He is a member of editorial or advisory boards of Electrocatalysis (Springer), Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry (Springer) and he is editor of Electrochimica Acta (Elsevier). At present he acts as member of Board of Directors and Chair of Physical Analytical Division of Electrochemical Society (USA). Author of over 200 scientific publications.

Structure-Property Relations in Functionalized Materials for Efficient Electrocatalysis and Electrochemical Energy Conversion

Grzegorz Milczarek received his PhD and D.Sc. degree from Faculty of Chemical Technology at Poznan University of Technology (Poznan, Poland). Currently hi is a Professor at the same university. He is also a head of the Division of General and Analytical Chemistry. His research areas include: electrocatalysis, preparation of new materials for energy conversion and storage, preparation of chemically modified electrodes to be used as electrochemical sensors. He has published over 50 peer reviewed publications.

Advanced electroactive materials based on lignosulfonates

Randriamahazaka Hyacinthe is currently full Professor at Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 (France). Professor Randriamahazaka is Deputy Director of the Master Chimie Paris Cité of Université Paris Diderot (http://www.master.chimie.univ-paris-diderot.fr/). His major interest is in understanding the electrodeposition and electrografting processes, the heterogeneous electron transfer mechanisms, the charge transfer within organic and disorder materials, particularly in room temperature ionic liquids environment, and the elaboration of nanomaterials and modified surfaces for electrocatalytic and energy applications. These studies focused on the development of various electrochemical and bio-inspired devices (supercapacitors, solar fuel cells, redox flow batteries, artificial photosynthesis and actuators).

Preparation and Properties of Immobilized Redox Active Ionic Liquids and Polymer Ionic Liquids

Rasa Pauliukaite received a PhD in the field of physical chemistry from the Institute of Chemistry Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1998. She did her postdoctoral studies in Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria, (2000), the National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2001), ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2002), and the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (2003–2010). She is the head of the Laboratory of Functional Nanomaterials and a chief research associate in the Center for Physical Sciences and Technology. She with co-authors has published 57 scientific papers in ISI Thomson Reuters database. The h factor is 21. Her current interests are the development and application of functional nanomaterials and conducting polymers in electroanalytical chemistry. She is Regional Representative from Lithuania at International Society of Electrochemistry. She is also a member of a few National Societies of Chemistry. Also, she is board member of the association “Futura Scientia” which unifies Lithuania scientists abroad.

Employment of conducting polymers in electrochemical food testing

Ingo Krossing studied chemistry in Munich (LMU) and finished his Ph.D. thesis 1997 (with Prof. H. Nöth). From 1997 to 1999, he worked as Feodor Lynen postdoc with Prof. J. Passmore at UNB, Canada. In 1999, he started his independent career as a Liebig- and DFG-Heisenberg-Fellow at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH) (mentor: Prof. H. Schnöckel). 2004 he changed as assistant professor to the Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), before being appointed Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in 2006. His research interests cover ionic systems from reactive cations to ionic liquids, as well as electrochemical energy storage. With an ongoing ERC Advanced Grant he develops absolute acidity and reducity scales.

Protoelectric Potential Map – Unified Acidity and Reducity Scales and their Experimental Realization

Dr. Ruiyong Chen received his Ph.D. degree (summa cum laude) in 2011 in physical chemistry from the Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. He is currently a habilitation candidate at the Saarland University and a project leader at the KIST Europe. He has expertise in synthesis and characterization of electrode materials for energy storage systems and energy-efficient electrolysis. He has developed new two lithium intercalation cathode materials with disordered rock-salt structure for improving reversible capacity (up to 400 mAh g-1) for lithium ion batteries. He is currently developing new high voltage aqueous electrolytes for stationary energy storage using redox flow batteries.

High voltage aqueous redox flow batteries