Erwin Reisner

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Angewandte Chemie International EditionVolume 56, Issue 32 p. 9272-9272 Author ProfileFree Access Erwin Reisner First published: 27 March 2017 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201702474AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Graphical Abstract “My favorite place on earth is Europe (including the UK). I can never resist a good board game ...” This and more about Erwin Reisner can be found on page 9272. Erwin Reisner The author presented on this page has recently published his 10th article in Angewandte Chemie in the last 10 years: “Dark Photocatalysis: Storage of Solar Energy in Carbon Nitride for Time-Delayed Hydrogen Generation”: V. W.-h. Lau, D. Klose, H. Kasap, F. Podjaski, M.-C. Pignié, E. Reisner, G. Jeschke, B. V. Lotsch, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 510; Angew. Chem. 2017, 129, 525. The work of E. Reisner has been featured on the inside back cover of Angewandte Chemie: “Photocatalytic Formic Acid Conversion on CdS Nanocrystals with Controllable Selectivity for H2 or CO”: M. F. Kuehnel, D. W. Wakerley, K. L. Orchard, E. Reisner, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 9627; Angew. Chem. 2015, 127, 9763. Date of birth: December 22, 1979 Position: University Reader, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge E-mail: reisner@ch.cam.ac.uk Homepage: http://www-reisner.ch.cam.ac.uk/; https://www.youtube.com/user/reisnerlab ORCID: 0000-0002-7781-1616 Education: 2002 Diploma in Chemistry, University of Vienna 2005 PhD with Prof. Bernhard K. Keppler, University of Vienna 2005–2007 Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Stephen J. Lippard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2008–2009 Research associate with Prof. Fraser A. Armstrong, University of Oxford Awards: 2014 Harrison–Meldola Memorial Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry; 2014 Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize, Swiss Chemical Society Research: Artificial photosynthesis, bioinspired hybrid materials, bioinorganic chemistry Hobbies: Barbecuing and skiing My favorite place on earth is Europe (including the UK). I can never resist a good board game. What I look for first in a publication is novelty, followed by data to support the claims (to avoid falling for a piece of “post-fact science”). My latest exciting discovery has been sunlight-driven reforming of unprocessed waste biomass under ambient conditions into clean hydrogen fuel. My greatest professional achievement has been establishing my laboratory in Cambridge and assembling a collaborative team of dedicated and creative scientists. This is the platform to drive all of our scientific endeavors in the future. My worst nightmare is an accident in the laboratory. Guaranteed to make me laugh is a speech at Christmas dinner. The worst advice I have ever been given were not to study chemistry (as it was considered an old-fashioned subject), a few years later, not to focus on inorganic chemistry and electrochemistry (as these disciplines were thought to be outdated) and, more recently, not to take the job offer from Cambridge (for reasons to be disclosed on another occasion). The best advice I have ever been given is to keep doing what I am doing. I celebrate success with my co-workers in the pub and a barbecue or traveling with my family. My 5 top papers: References 1“Photocatalytic H2 evolution from neutral water with a molecular cobalt catalyst on a dye-sensitised TiO2 nanoparticle”: F. Lakadamyali, E. Reisner, Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 1695. (My first “independent” paper and start of our activities on photocatalysis with molecule–semiconductor hybrid systems.) 2“Selective Reduction of Aqueous Protons to Hydrogen with a Synthetic Cobaloxime Catalyst in the Presence of Atmospheric Oxygen”: F. Lakadamyali, M. Kato, N. M. Muresan, E. Reisner, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 9381; Angew. Chem. 2012, 124, 9515. (A few relatively simple experiments that demonstrated the unexpected oxygen tolerance of a molecular catalyst.) 3“Solar Hydrogen Production Using Carbon Quantum Dots and a Molecular Nickel Catalyst”: B. C. M. Martindale, G. A. M. Hutton, C. A. Caputo, E. Reisner, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 6018. (An exemplary team effort that enabled discovery of scalable carbon nanodots as light harvesters for solar H2 generation.) 4“Competing charge transfer pathways at the photosystem II–electrode interface”: J. Z. Zhang, K. P. Sokol, N. Paul, E. Romero, R. van Grondelle, E. Reisner, Nature Chem. Biol. 2016, 12, 1046. (Years of effort resulted in unraveling of a short-circuit in the water-splitting pathway in photosystem II.) 5“Electrocatalytic and Solar-Driven CO2 Reduction to CO with a Molecular Mn Catalyst Immobilized on Mesoporous TiO2”: T. E. Rosser, C. D. Windle, E. Reisner, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 7388; Angew. Chem. 2016, 128, 7514. (Unexpected demonstration of a bimolecular mechanism for an immobilized Mn catalyst.) Volume56, Issue32August 1, 2017Pages 9272-9272 ReferencesRelatedInformation