Category: People

TACO PI Karin Föttinger (P10) and her students developed a new catalyst (MoS₂) that can form methanol out of CO₂. This could make industrial processes more climate friendly.

Gareth Parkinson (PI of P04) was elected as AVS Fellow. Congratulations!

Michael Brunthaler successfully defended his thesis. He is the first student member of TACO to graduate. Congratulations!

Christoph Rameshan (co-PI of P10) has been appointed „Professor for Electrochemical Energy Conversion“ and head of the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the Montan University Leoben and will start his new job in October. Congratulations!

TACO Deputy Speaker Georg Kresse (P03) has been awarded a honorary doctorate of Lund University (Sweden). Congratulations!

TACO researches met with Nicola Spaldin (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), a newly elected member to the Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW).

Christoph Rameshan, co-PI of P10, is co-author of a recently published Science paper of Peter Amann et al. on methanol synthesis. Congratulations!

Our TACO coordinator, Ulrike Diebold, gave an invited keynote talk at the CataLysis Networking Conference in Kassel.

Carolin Faller (University of Vienna) and Thomas Ruh (TU Wien) have been elected as student representatives for 2022.

Christoph Rameshan, co-PI of P10, was awarded a ERC Proof of Concept grant to extend his research on perovskite catalysts towards industrial applicability. Congratulations to Christoph!