Volker Presser

Energy Innovator • Professor • Editor-in-Chief • 🔋💧📝🧪🔬

Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany

About

With over 15 years of experience in energy materials research and development, I lead a dynamic and motivated team of researchers at the INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials and Saarland University (UdS). As a UdS Full Professor and INM Research Department Leader, I oversee the synthesis, characterization, and application of electroactive nanomaterials for energy storage, water treatment, ion recovery, and battery recycling. My vision is to contribute to a sustainable future by developing innovative materials and technologies that can address the global challenges of energy and water scarcity. I am passionate about exploring the edge of science and mentoring the next generation of researchers. I welcome like-minded individuals who want to join my group and share my mission. I am also the Editor-in-Chief of Energy Advances of the Royal Society of Chemistry where I promote the dissemination of cutting-edge research and foster the collaboration among the scientific community. Explore! Create! Apply!

Experience

  • INM-Leibniz Institute for New Materials (Full-time · 14 yrs 1 mo)
    • Research Department Leader
      Dec 2015 - Present · 10 yrs 7 mos

    • Junior Research Group Leader
      Jun 2012 - Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Universität des Saarlandes (Stadtverband Saarbrücken, Saarland, Deutschland)
    • Full Professor (W3)
      Dec 2015 - Present · 10 yrs 7 mos

    • Assistant Professor (Junior Professor)
      Apr 2013 - Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Editor In Chief at Royal Society of Chemistry
    Sep 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

  • Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvanien, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika)
    • Research Assistant Professor
      Nov 2011 - Jun 2012 · 8 mos

    • Humboldt Research Fellow
      Jan 2010 - Dec 2011 · 2 yrs

  • Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland)
    • Postdoctoral Researcher
      Jun 2009 - Dec 2009 · 7 mos

    • Ph.D. Student (Doktorand)
      Feb 2006 - Jun 2009 · 3 yrs 5 mos