HI ERN PhD students Ken Jenewein and Pascal Lauf receive DAAD scholarship

28 November 2023

Two HI ERN PhD students have been awarded a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to participate in a research exchange in the United States of America.

Both are working in the research group "Electrochemical Energy Conversion" headed by Dr. Serhiy Cherevko.

Pascal Lauf will visit Prof. Iryna Zenyuk at the University of California Irvine, where he will work on ionic-liquids-filled catalyst layer pores for fuel cells. The idea is to improve conductivity and mass transport so that the durability and high efficiency of energy materials for fuel cells can be maximized.

Ken Jenwein will visit Prof. John Gregoire at the California Institute of Technology, where he will work on data-driven methods to accelerate electrocatalyst discovery via autonomous experimentations.

Every year, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) supports well over 100,000 German and international students and researchers around the globe – making it the world's largest funding organisation of its kind. (more)