Sebastian Fiechter

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Sebastian Fiechter (born February 3, 1954 in Lörrach ) is a German mineralogist , crystallographer and (electrical) chemist. He has been a professor of applied geochemistry at the Technical University of Berlin since 2011 .

Life

Fiechter studied mineralogy and crystallography at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg from 1973 to 1978 . He wrote his dissertation there on the crystal growth of ion-conducting argyrodites of the type Cu6PS5Hal (Hal = Cl, Br, I) with Rudolf Nitsche (1922–1996), for which he was awarded the Goedecke Research Prize in 1983 . From 1983 to 2008 he worked under the direction of Helmut Tributsch as a research assistant and deputy head of department at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin , where he researched solar energetics. In 2004 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin. Since 2012 he has been deputy head of the “Solar Fuels” institute at the Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy , the successor to the Hahn-Meitner Institute. The focus here is on the development of new solar energy materials, water splitting and carbon dioxide fixation.

His research interests include photovoltaics and electrocatalysis (especially the development and research of catalysts for electrolytic and photocatalytic water splitting ).

Fonts

Publications in numerous journals including Nature , Science and JACS

  • About crystal growth of ion-conducting argyrodites of the type Cu6PS5Hal (Hal = Cl, Br, I) , 1982
  • Semiconducting metal sulfides with pyrite, molybdenite and chalcopyrite structure: material development and aspects of use in photovoltaics and electrocatalysis , 2005

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personalia, TU Berlin, July 14, 2011
  2. ↑ Business card Prof. Dr. Sebastian Fiechter, Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy (HZB)
  3. ↑ Anders Thapper et al .: Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Fuels - an Evolving Research Field within AMPEA, a Joint Program of the European Energy Research Alliance, in: Green 2013; 3 (1): 43-57, here 56.
personal data
SURNAME Fiechter, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist and crystallographer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Loerrach