Dr.
Jacob Schneidewind

Jacob Schneidewind studied chemistry at the University of Cologne, Yale-NUS College in Singapore and the University of Rostock, with a research stay at the University of Toronto, Canada, and obtained his Master’s degree in 2017. He then completed his PhD with Prof. Matthias Beller at the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, focusing on the conversion of carbon dioxide into valuable raw materials and the elucidation of new mechanisms for photocatalytic water splitting. After concluding his doctorate in 2021, he moved to RWTH Aachen University for a PostDoc stay with Prof. Walter Leitner, whereupon he established his own research group (also at RWTH Aachen University) at the beginning of 2022. In the summer of 2023, he then moved with his group to the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, where he is heading the BMFTR junior research group “SINATRA: SolSTEP” since the beginning of 2024. The research group is also part of the SFB/TRR 234 “CataLight” and an associate member of the Helmholtz Institute for Polymers in Energy Applications Jena (HIPOLE Jena).

The group’s research focuses on the development of applicable photocatalysts for the production of green hydrogen. To this end, new mechanisms for the conversion of sunlight are being investigated, on the basis of which photocatalysts and corresponding processes are being developed for scalable application.