Mercator Fellows

Lecturer in Functional Thin Films and Microscopy, Department of Materials, Imperial College London
- Quantum and energy materials at the atomic scale
- Expert in in situ TEM, EELS and correlative TEM-APT
- New cryo-microscopy facility and atoms to devices thin film growth facility

Associate Professor, Mesa+ Institute, University of Twente
- Materials science at the nanoscale applied to photo-/electrocatalysis
- Thin film fabrication and processing, solid-state dewetting, catalytic performance
- Surface characterization and X-ray spectroscopy
| Authors | Title | Journal and Year |
| Dierner et al. | Role of polycrystalline F–SnO2 substrate topography in formation mechanism and morphology of Pt nanoparticles by solid-state-dewetting | Nanoscale 2025 |
| Harsha et al. | Dewetting of Pt Nanoparticles Boosts Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Due to Electronic Metal-Support Interaction | Advanced Functional Materials 2024 |
| Pinna et al. | Amorphous NiCu Thin Films Sputtered on TiO2 Nanotube Arrays: A Noble-Metal Free Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution | ChemCatChem 2022 |
| Harreiß et al. | Understanding and Controlling the Evolution of Nanomorphology and Crystallinity of Organic Bulk-Heterojunction Blends with Solvent Vapor Annealing | Solar RRL 2022 |
| Will et al. | Hydrogenated anatase TiO2 single crystals: defects formation and structural changes as microscopic origin of co-catalyst free photocatalytic H2 evolution activity | Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2021 |
