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Dr. Ashwani Kumar is a distinguished researcher currently serving as the Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Heterogeneous Catalysis, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry (Inorganic Materials Chemistry) from the Department of Chemistry (CINAP-IBS), Sungkyunkwan University Natural Sciences Campus, Republic of Korea (Sep. 2018-Feb. 2022). He began his academic journey at Kendriya Vidyalaya IIT Kharagpur and completed his schooling in 2011. He then joined Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India (IISER-K) as an integrated BS-MS fellow (Inspire fellowship) and completed his BS-MS Dual Degree in Chemical Sciences in May 2017.
Ashwani started his research career by interning at the Advanced Functional Materials Laboratory, IISER-K under the supervision of Prof. Sayan Bhattacharyya. He became interested in the fundamentals of materials science and electrocatalysis for energy applications. In 2017, he successfully defended his MS Thesis on the development of transition metal-based oxides for water splitting (publication: ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017). He continued his research in the same group as a project assistant (publication: J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018; Chem. Sci., 2020) before joining Ph.D. at Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea (Sep. 2018). His Ph.D. research topics involved the synthesis of novel single-atom catalysts and understanding the role of single-metal-support-interaction towards various need of the hour energy applications such as water splitting (OER & HER), nitrogen reduction reaction, nitrate reduction reaction, oxygen reduction reaction, urea electrolysis, and so on (publication: Energy Environ. Sci., 2020; Energy Environ. Sci., 2021; Nature Commun. 2021; ACS Nano 2022).
Apart from being a researcher, he is also enthusiastic about sports, traveling, food, and photography!
Electrochemical Energy Conversion to Green Fuels and Chemicals
Selected 1st author articles
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024
Advanced Materials, 2024
ACS Nano, 2022
ACS Energy Letters, 2021
Nature Commun., 2021
Energy & Environmental Science, 2021
ACS Energy Letters, 2021
Chemical Science, 2021
Chemistry - An Asian Journal 2021
Energy & Environmental Science, 2020
Chemistry of Materials, 2020
Chemical Science, 2020
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2017
