Prof. Dr. Tanja Cuk

Tanja Cuk obtained her Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Stanford University in 2007 under the supervision of Professor Zhi Xun Shen on angle resolved photoemission and Raman spectroscopy of inorganic superconductors.  She completed a Miller Postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley in 2010 under the direction of Dr. Heinz Frei in heterogeneous catalysis.  She is currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Faculty Fellow at the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), and an Associate Director of the Center for Electrochemical Dynamics at Surfaces (CEDARS).  Her research focuses on the fundamental mechanisms involved in converting an electric current into a storable fuel at solid-liquid (electrode-electrolyte) interfaces.  To do this, she utilizes multiple time-resolved optical spectroscopies to probe catalytic reactions at surfaces and collaborates with theorists on the experimental observables.  Tanja is here at the Fritz Haber Institute on a Humboldt (Bessel) award collaborating with the Interface Science and the Physical Chemistry departments.