Dr. Lars Mohrhusen

Lars Mohrhusen studied chemistry at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg between 2011 and 2016 and completed his PhD (2017-2021) on the topic of point defects in the titanium dioxide modification rutile in bifunctional catalysts and their influence on (photo)catalysis, also at the University of Oldenburg under the supervision of Prof. Al-Shamery. He then had a PostDoc stay (2021-2022) in the USA at Harvard University, Cambridge, with Professors Cynthia Friend and Robert J. Madix, where he worked on model studies on Pd-based alloy catalysts at the DOE Energy Research Frontier Center (EFRC) “Integrated Mesoscale Architectures for Sustainable Catalysis” (IMASC). This was followed by another PostDoc stay (2022-2024) in Denmark at Aarhus Universitet with Prof. J. Lauritsen to characterize 2D MoS₂ nanoparticles for hydrodeoxigenation of bio-oils using (operando) STM and XPS, before returning to Germany to Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in 2024 to head an independent junior research group and the project “Su₂nCat-CO₂”.
The research focus is on the development of hybrid material combinations of readily available elements for use as thermal and photochemical catalysts. Oxide semiconductors (e.g. titanium dioxide) are combined with inorganic or organic nanostructures and characterized by means of spectroscopy (XPS, FTIR), microscopy (STM, SEM) and diffraction experiments (LEED, XRD) as well as reaction and kinetics.The research focus is on the development of hybrid material combinations of readily available elements for use as thermal and photochemical catalysts.