Assistant Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Alexey Cherevan

Institute of Materials Chemistry E165-02 Research Department Molecular Materials Chemistry

Habilitated for: Materials Chemistry

Homepage (University): https://www.tuwien.at/tch/mmc/team/dr-alexey-cherevan

Mr. Ass. Prof. Dr. Alexey Cherevan received his Master's degree in Chemistry (2010) from Lomonosov Moscow University, Russia. One year later, he received a PhD scholarship from the International NRW Graduate School of Chemistry and moved to the University of Münster, Germany, to start his PhD studies in the field of nanocarbon-inorganic hybrid materials for photocatalysis. Supported by the Ewald Wicke Scholarship (2012), he had the opportunity to visit Prof. K. Domen's group at the University of Tokyo, Japan, which helped him to obtain his PhD degree in Physical Chemistry (2014) with Summa Cum Laude distinction. He then moved to TU Wien as Area Leader (2015) of the Molecular Materials Chemistry group and later as Principal Investigator (2019) of an independent FWF project. In 2023 he was promoted to assistant professor with tenure track and completed his habilitation in materials chemistry in 2024.

Research interests:

His research interests focus on materials chemistry and encompass a variety of functional nanostructured inorganic materials, including semiconductors, organic-inorganic hybrids and ceramics, as well as molecular compounds, including clusters, transition metal complexes and single-site catalysts relevant to a range of energy-related applications.

He is currently part of the Cluster of Excellence MECS (2023-2027), focusing his research on photocatalysis for solar fuel production.