Prof. Corina Andronescu
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Corina Andronescu is a Junior Professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where she leads the Electrochemical Catalysis group within the Faculty of Chemistry.
Corina Andronescu received her B. Sc. and M. Sc. from the University Politehnica of Bucharest in 2009 and 2011, respectively, where she also obtained her Ph.D. in 2014 in chemical engineering. In 2016 she moved to Ruhr University Bochum, first as a postdoctoral researcher and later as a group leader.
Her research interests include fundamental and applied topics, focusing on understanding electrocatalysts and electrode design for CO2 electroreduction and alcohol electrooxidation, paired electrolysis, ranging to high-throughput materials discovery and single entity electrochemistry.
For her research, she received several early career awards, among which the 2023 Jochen Block Award of DECHEMA and the 2022 Joachim Walter Schultze Award of AGEF. Since 2023, she has also been a member of the Junge Kolleg of the NRW Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste.