Dr. Michelle Browne

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany

Dr. Michelle Browne is a Helmholtz Young Investigator group leader at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (Germany) since July 2022. Her group researches into metal oxide/MXene materials for electrochemical water splitting.

Michelle obtained her Ph.D in Chemistry from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) Ireland under the supervision of Prof. Michael Lyons and Prof. Paula Colavita in 2017. After a short research position under Prof. Colavita, Michelle moved to Queens University Belfast (QUB) to become a research fellow under Prof. Andrew Mills. In 2018, Michelle moved to the University of Chemistry and Technology (UCT) Prague on a Marie Curie concept fellowship under the mentorship Prof. Martin Pumera. In 2019, Michelle was awarded a Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Mobility grant to conduct a research stay at the Electrochemical Innovation lab in University College London with Prof Dan Brett. From 2022-2022, Michelle was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow in Trinity College Dublin under the mentorship of Prof. Valeria Nicolosi.

Michelle is on the committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry Electrochemistry Interest group, Electrochemistry editor for Results in Chemistry, and a member of the Advisory Board of ChemElectroChem and the Journal of Solid-State Electrochemistry. To date, Michelle has published over 50 papers in internationally peer-reviewed journals and has received numerous awards including Curious Minds Research Award 2023, International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) Elsevier Prize for Applied Electrochemistry award 2021, L’Oréal-UNESCO UK and Ireland For Women in Science 2021 Rising Talent fellowship and the Clara Immerwahr award 2021 from UniSysCat.