MILES Seminar - Prof. Thomas Heine

Professor Thomas Heine holds a chair professor of theoretical chemistry at Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), Germany. Prof. Heine (PhD 1999, venia legendi 2006 TU Dresden) started his research group in 2008 at Jacobs University Bremen, moved to University of Leipzig in 2015 and to his current position at TU Dresden in 2018. He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher with more than 420 peer-reviewed articles, an h-index of 98 (ISI) / 110 (Google Scholar), and more than 43000 citations.

In this talk, Prof. Heine will cover a range of examples of their recent research where they contributed in the development of energy materials. Most of the work is based on organic 2D crystals. And another materials class to be introduced are metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs), which are particularly suitable for new battery types.