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Biography

Dr. Volker Presser has been a full professor at Saarland University and Program Division Leader at the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials (both in Saarbrücken, Germany) since 2015. He received his doctorate with distinction in Applied Mineralogy from the Eberhard-Karls University (Tübingen, Germany) in 2009.

From 2010 to 2012, he was a Humboldt Fellow and Research Assistant Professor at Drexel University (Philadelphia, USA), working in the Nanomaterials Group of Yury Gogotsi. Having received an Early Career Grant from the Germany Ministry of Research and Education, he returned to Germany in 2012 to work at the INM.

In 2013, he became an Assistant Professor at Saarland University at the Department of Materials Science & Engineering; he was promoted to full, tenured Professor at Saarland University and to Program Division Leader at INM in 2015.

As Chair of Energy Materials, Dr. Presser and his team explore electrochemical materials and processes for energy storage, water remediation, energy harvesting, and ion separation. His work has received several awards and recognitions, such as the Bayer Early Career Award (2013), the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize (Germany Research Foundation, 2013), and the Award for Research Cooperation and High Excellence in Science (Minerva Foundation, 2017). He became a Fellow of the ÀË»¨Ö±²¥ in 2020.

As part of his role with Energy Advances, Volker serves as an Associate Editor handling manuscripts submitted for publication.

RSC affiliations

• Advisory board, Sustainable Energy & Fuels