Prof. Corina Andronescu awarded

Lecturer Award of the Chemical Industry Fund

She is considered an award-winning pioneer in electrochemical catalysis, and now she has received another award. This year's Lecturer Award of the Chemical Industry Fund goes to Materials Chain member Prof. Corina Andronescu as a particularly outstanding young scientist.

Corina Andronescu, born in 1987, studied chemical engineering at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB) in Romania, where she obtained her doctorate in 2014. Her dissertation focused on the synthesis of new benzoxazines, which are used in the synthesis of composite materials or in biosensors. She then worked as a lecturer in bioresources and polymer science at the University of Bucharest until 2016 and moved to the Ruhr University Bochum for her postdoctoral research. In 2017, she co-invented a patent application for self-healing nanoparticle-based catalyst layers for electrocatalysis. One year later, she was appointed Junior Professor of Electrochemical Catalysis at UDE as part of the tenure-track program.

Her research focuses on understanding complex electrochemically active materials used in various important reactions for energy conversion and storage. To achieve this, she conducts nanoelectrochemical experiments to gain a fundamental understanding of electrocatalysts and also tests them in electrolyzers under conditions relevant to industrial applications to bridge the gap in the development of new catalyst materials for renewable energy technologies, particularly hydrogen.

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