Biography

• 2016- : Team Head, Electrocatalysis group of Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (Erlangen, Germany)
• 2011-2015 : Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Interface Chemistry and Surface Engineering, Max-Planck Institut für Eisenforschung (Düsseldorf, Germany)
• 2009-2011 : Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Chemical Engineering division), Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon, Korea)
• 2005-2009 : Ph.D. degree in Nanoscience at the Sungkyunkwan University, Interdisciplinary Program in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Sungkyunkwan Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT), (Suwon, Korea)
• 2004-2005 : Research Engineer at the Institute for Single Crystals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
• 1999-2004 : B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Physics at the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Physical department, division of Solid State Physics (Kharkiv, Ukraine)

Awards and Recognitions

• 2013 : ISE Electrochimica Acta Travel Award, by the International Society of Electrochemistry
• 2009-2011 : Brain Korea 21 (BK-21) Postdoctoral research fellowship
• 2004 : Master diploma in Physics with distinction