Dr. Verena Streibel

Verena Streibel studied materials science at the Technical University of Darmstadt and at the Técnológico de Monterrey, Querétaro, Mexico (2007-2013). She completed her dissertation at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, where she spectroscopically characterized iridium surfaces during electrochemical water splitting, and received her PhD from the Technical University of Berlin (2016). As a postdoctoral researcher, she worked at the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis at Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the USA (2018-2020), where she focused on density functional theory-based microkinetic modeling of thermal heterogeneous catalysis. In 2021, she moved to the Walter Schottky Institute at the Technical University of Munich, where she is heading the BMBF junior research group “SINATRA:CO₂UPLED” on artificial photosynthesis since 2024.
Verena Streibel’s research focuses on surface and interface investigations to elucidate dynamic material changes during (photo)electrochemical processes for energy conversion. To this end, she uses (X-ray) spectroscopy methods under reaction conditions combined with theoretical modeling. Together with her research group, she develops novel photoelectrode materials and couples them to catalyst systems in order to synthesize solar fuels.