Person

Dr. rer. nat.

Jacob Schneidewind

Independent research group leader

Coworker Photo Copyright: © J. Schneidewind
Lehrstuhl für Technische Chemie und Petrolchemie

Address

Building: Sammelbau Chemie

Room: 38C 451

Worringerweg 2

52074 Aachen

Contact

WorkPhone
Phone: +49 241 80 26498
 

Curriculum vitae

since 2022

Independent research group leader at Institute for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University (Liebig fellow)

2021

Postdoc at Institute for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University (Prof. Walter Leitner)

2021

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

2017 – 2021

PhD at Leibniz Institute for Catalysis/University of Rostock (Prof. Matthias Beller)

2016 – 2017

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

2015

Research stay at University 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

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

Awards and scholarships

2022 Carl Roth Award of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)

since 2022

Liebig Fellowship by Fonds der Chemischen Industrie

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)