- Professor Silvana Botti received a Momentum Grant from the Volkswagen Foundation.
- Professor Anna Grünebohm received the Innovation Award NRW in the category “early career researchers”.
Research Focus
Materials Science
The generation, conversion, storage and distribution of energy – this requires innovative solutions for which the design of new materials is the key. At Ruhr University Bochum, scientists from all areas of materials science are cooperating on these questions within an interdisciplinary research network – and also with partners at the University of Duisburg-Essen as part of the University Alliance Ruhr.
Collaborative Research Centres
Completed Collaborative Research Centres
ERC Grants
Further projects
The project “Determining materials for energy conversion – Establishing a fast track towards processing and evaluation” (DIMENSION) is funded by the Mercator Research Center Ruhr with approx. 1.8 million euros for a period of five years. Researchers of the University Alliance Ruhr are collaborating to develop new materials to ensure the success of the energy transition, such as for fuel cells and for the electrolysis of water to produce so-called green hydrogen.
NRW cooperation platform MAT4HY.NRW
Professor Anna Böhmer is a member of the Management Committee of the EU Cost Action “Superconducting Nanodevices and Quantum Materials for Coherent Manipulation” (SUPERQUMAP). Professor Silvana Botti is involved in the Pathfinder project “SOLARUP”, funded by the European Innovation Council. Professor Tong Li is a member of the Priority Programme 2006 “Compositionally Complex Alloys – High Entropy Alloys”.
Research structures
Early career groups
- Emmy Noether group “Scale-bridging computational design of multifunctional ferroelectric composites”
Prof. Dr. Anna Grünebohm - Emmy Noether group “Bio-inspired Carbon Dioxide Activation on Heterobimetallic Complexes”
Prof. Dr. Ulf-Peter Apfel (2014 bis 2021) - Fraunhofer Attract group “C1EKAT – CO2 reduction through electrocatalysis”
Prof. Dr. Ulf-Peter Apfel - ForLab PICT2DES “Research Lab Microelectronics Bochum for 2D Electronics”
News in materials science
Collaboration within the University Alliance Ruhr
Research at RUB