Single Atom Catalysts

Dr. Prashanth W Menezes is working as the Group Head for Inorganic Materials at the Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Berlin (TUB), Germany. His current area of research is solid-state and surface structural chemistry of unconventional catalysts for sustainable energy applications. He has core competencies in the area of photocatalysis and (photo)electrocatalysis; oxygen and hydrogen evolution; water electrolysis; CO2 reduction; oxygen reduction; (photo)electrosynthesis of industrially vital products through redox chemistry; energy conversion and storage; environmental chemistry; heterogeneous catalysis; surface-interface chemistry; molecular precursors; in-situ and ex-situ spectroscopy. Dr. Debasish Sarkar is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics of Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India. He was awarded the prestigious “INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship” in 2019. His primary research interests include designing and developing novel nanostructures and nanoheterostructures of carbons and other transition metal oxides for electrochemical energy generation and storage applications. His group develops catalysts for H2 generation through photoelectrochemical water splitting and electrocatalysis. His research on energy storage involves the development of novel electrode materials for high-performance batteries and supercapacitors. Kamlendra Awasthi earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur India in 2007. Dr. Awasthi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and is currently working as Head, Materials Research Centre at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India. He has worked at Nanoscience Center, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India as Research Scientist, and at Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow prior to joining Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur in 2012. His main research area is soft materials with a major focus on polymer nanofillers and nanostructured materials for photovoltaic, sensor, and nanofabrication applications. He has authored/co-authored more than 90 publications and edited the special issues in various journals. He is the organizer of a series of International Conferences on Soft Materials held every two years from 2014 onwards. Dr. Awasthi is the recipient of reputed fellowships: Young Scientist (2008) Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India; Alexander von Humboldt fellowship (2009) by Humboldt foundation Germany; INSPIRE faculty award (2012) from the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India and Early Career Research Award (2017) from SERB-New Delhi, India.