Andronescu on the Advisory Board

Support for Young Scientific Careers

Materials Chain member Jun-Prof. Corina Andronescu from the Faculty of Chemistry of University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) will join the "Early Career Advisory Board" of ChemElectroChem, a high-ranking journal for pure and applied electrochemistry, as of January 1, 2021. The aim is to promote young scientists and to involve them in publication processes at an early stage.

To serve on the editorial board of an important journal usually requires that you have already made a name for yourself in the scientific community. However, this is often not the case, especially in the early stages of a career. "This is why I find the ChemElectroChem initiative very innovative," praises Andronescu. Through the so-called Early Career Advisory Board, young researchers can be involved in the activities of a scientific journal at an early stage and thus gain important experience in scientific publishing already in this career phase. In addition, special issues can be initiated or other young researchers can be recommended for the review process. "I am honored and delighted to be able to serve the scientific community already in this early career phase," summarizes the expert in electrochemical catalysis.

Andronescu's junior professorship is part of the German government's program for the promotion of young scientists (WISNA), which aims to offer young scientists a transparent and plannable path to a lifetime professorship. To date, 468 of these "tenure-track professorships" have been funded throughout Germany, 23 of them at the UDE. At the Duisburg campus, she conducts research on electrochemical catalysis both at the NanoEnergieTechnikZentrum (NETZ) and the Zentrum für BrennstoffzellenTechnik (ZBT). Her project MatGasDif, short for "Nanomaterials as a basis for gas diffusion electrodes for highly selective CO2 reduction", is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research with 1.4 million euros for five years.

 

Editors: Sarah Heuser, sarah.heuser@uni-due.de, Steffi Nickol, steffi.nickol@uni-due.de