Dr. Marcus Einert

Marcus Einert studied materials science at Justus Liebig University Giessen (2006-2012), where he also completed his master’s thesis in physical chemistry. After his master’s thesis, Marcus Einert worked for a year as a research assistant in battery research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in the Battery and Electrochemistry Laboratory (BELLA). He then returned to the Institute of Physics at Justus Liebig University Giessen to complete his doctorate (2014-2018) with the topic: ”Nanostructured electrodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting”. From 2018 to 2020, Marcus Einert seized the opportunity in the private sector to take up a leading position in industrial research at E-O-M GmbH. As a postdoctoral researcher, he worked at the Technical University of Darmstadt (2020-2021) and at the University of California, Davis in the USA (2022), where he focused on the surface chemistry and characterization of electrocatalysts and mesoporous electrodes. In 2022, Marcus Einert received Walter Benjamin funding from the DFG and was able to conduct independent research on the topic of “Highly ordered pore structures in photoelectrodes and their influence on solar water splitting”. Since 2024, he has been head of a BMBF junior research group in the Department of Surface Research at the Technical University of Darmstadt in the field of artificial photosynthesis.