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The Fritz Haber Institute is very pleased to welcome Prof. Tanja Cuk from the University of Colorado Boulder for a research stay at the institute as part of her Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. The internationally renowned spectroscopist will be hosted by the departments of Prof. Beatriz Roldan Cuenya and Prof. Martin Wolf from August to December 2025. more

At the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) in Mainz in September 2025, Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldan Cuenya, our Managing Director and Director of the Interface Science Department, was ceremonially inducted into the ranks of ISE Fellows.  more

Researchers from the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society have unveiled new insights into the activity of catalysts used in green hydrogen production. Their study, published in Nature Chemistry, explores how the catalyst kinetics are related to an intricate interplay between interfacial solvent and chemical changes on the catalyst surface, potentially paving the way for more efficient energy conversion technologies. more

Scientists from the Interface Science Department at the Fritz Haber Institute have studied how applying pulsed electric potential treatments to copper single crystal surfaces as model catalysts can improve their ability to convert carbon dioxide (CO₂) into fuels like ethylene and ethanol. The key to achieve selectivity tunability relies in the control of the pulsed-induced structural and chemical catalyst transformations. This research offers insights which could help to reduce CO₂ emissions and producing renewable energy sources. more

Dr. Eduardo Ortega from the Interface Science Department won a Postdoc Award for the presentation of his research at this year’s Microscopy & Microanalysis Meeting in Salt Lake City. His work was selected from hundreds of submissions at the world's largest meeting on microscopy and microanalysis. more