Program

09.00:  Trials and Tribulations in the Electro-reduction of N2 to Ammonia 
Prof. Douglas MacFarlane (Monash University, Australia)

09.45 - 10.05: Coffee Break

Session 4

^{Chair: Dr. Pavlo Nikolaienko}

10:05: Syngas production via CO2 electroreduction at industrially relevant conditions enabled by catalyst design and electrode optimization
Prof. Corina Andronescu (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

10.35: Long-term continuous ammonia electrosynthesis
Dr. Shaofeng Li (Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Germany)

10.55: In-situ analysis of the dynamic interfacial electrolyte composition near electrodes during the electrochemical reduction of CO2 or N2
Prof. Georgios Katsoukis (University of Twente, Netherlands)

11:15: Coffee Break

11.35: System and Process Development for Industrial Carbon-dioxide Electroreduction
Dr. Csaba Janáky (University of Szeged, Hungary)

12.05: Influence of ionomer type on the performance of CO2-reducing gas diffusion electrodes
Christina Martens (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)

12.25: Beyond Cu catalysts: Synergistic effects of Cu with metal co-catalysts to enable CO(2) reduction to higher carbon products
Dr. Nina Plankensteiner (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

12.45: End of Session 4

12.45 - 14.00: Lunch

Session 5

^{Chair: Dr. Andreas Hutzler}

14.00: From flow fields to catalyst layers: a multiscale approach to advancing electrochemical clean energy
Prof. Aimy Bazylak (University of Toronto, Canada)

14.30: Operando Methods at Dynamic Catalyst Interfaces
Prof. Yao Yang (Cornell University, USA)

15.00: The inconvenient truth of ORR catalyst stability: Operando high energy X-ray investigations of ORR catalysts from cradle to grave
Dr. Jakub Drnec (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France)

15.30: Step engineering for model electrocatalysis using ion erosion
Dr. Josef Mysliveček (Charles University, Czech Republic)

16.00: End of Session 5

16.00: Poster Session
Networking, food and drinks at the conference venue

appr. 19.00: End of Day 2

09.00: Operando Spectroscopy in Electrocatalysis: Seeing the Catalyst in Action
Prof. Thomas Justus Schmidt (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland)

09.45: Coffee Break

Session 6

^{Chair: Dr. Matthew Brodt}

10.05: Electrochemical diagnostic methods: model-based and data-driven analysis
Dr. Tanja Vidakovic-Koch (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Germany)

10.35: How to find and understand new electrocatalysts
Prof. Matthias Arenz (University of Bern, Switzerland)

11.05: Green hydrogen production by electrolysis promoted by ethanol oxidation
Prof. Germano Tremiliosi-Filho (University of Sao Palo, Brazil)

11.25 - 11.45: Coffee Break

11.45: Electron Microscopy for Understanding the Stability of Electrocatalysts
Prof. Nejc Hodnik (National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia)

12.15: On the Design of Structured Electrocatalysts for Enhancing Gas Evolution Processes During Water Electrolysis
Prof. Byron Gates (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

12.35: Beyond CO2 and CO - Electro catalytic functional group conversion on copper electrodes
Bernhard Schmid (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)

12.55: End of Session 6

12.55 - 14.00: Lunch

14.00: Excursion and Guided Lab Tour to HI ERN´s headquarters at Erlangen
via bus shuttles

18.00: Conference closing
Food and drinks at Erlanger Bergkirchweih, one of the most beautiful and oldest folk festivals in the world, that has traditionally been celebrated at the Burgberg since 1755.

23.00: Bus Shuttle back to Nuremberg and End of the symposium