Ann-Kristin Stief
“For me, working on OER catalyst materials and design for tandem cell-based water splitting is an opportunity to take responsibility for advancing clean energy solutions. Our project, TWOB, allows me to continuously learn and grow as a scientist, driven by my curiosity and passion for materials science.”
“For me, working on OER catalyst materials and design for tandem cell-based water splitting is an opportunity to take responsibility for advancing clean energy solutions. Our project, TWOB, allows me to continuously learn and grow as a scientist, driven by my curiosity and passion for materials science.”
Doctoral Researcher
Technical University of Darmstadt
Foto: Ahnen&Enkel/Hanna Boussouar
Scientific career and research areas
Ann-Kristin Stief is a material scientist and joined the junior research group TWOB led by Marcus Einert as a doctoral researcher in 2024. She is working on the production of high entropy and transition metal oxides specifically designed for the use as electrocatalysts in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) by developing an innovative synthesis allowing for precise tailoring of the physicochemical properties of thin films. To this end, she applies sol-gel dip-coating with soft templating by evaporation induced self-assembly of block-copolymers.
Ann-Kristin Stief studied material science at the Technichal University of Darmstadt from 2018 to 2024. During this time she had different short-term missions both in industry and in academia. Particularly, she held the position of working student in the area of pipe class management in 2020 and in 2021 at Merck KGaA in Darmstadt, and had an internship at Stabilus in Coblenz in the field of development in 2021. For her bachelor thesis in the field of composites (2021), she collaborated with the Schunk Group (Heuchelheim, Germany), an industrial machinery manufacturer. Furthermore, in 2022, she got the opportunity to visit the
Major awards, achievements and scholarships
The TWOB research group
