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12. October 2023: Following the continued Hamas terrorist rocket attacks from Gaza strip on my home since Shabath 7. October in Rehovot Israel and then all over the country, I had to terminate my stay at Weizmann Institute of Science, and fled with my family back to Switzerland with EDA/Swiss emergency flight LX 7355.

Summer 2023: I am organizing again an MRS Symposium, this time for the MRS Spring Meeting 2024 in Seattle, WA.

1. August 2023: I begin my visit at Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel.

3 years of silence on this page as a result of the Covid-19 policies world wide.

December 2020: Elena Rozhkova (Argonne Lab), Artur Braun, Nicolas Gaillard (UH Manoa), Katsuhiko Ariga (NIMS), and Yoon Sung (KAIST) organize the Symposium on “Recent Trends and Advances in Artificial Photosynthesis” at PACIFICHEM Congress in Hawaii.


November - December 2020: Artur Braun to deliver invited talk at the MRS Fall 2020 Meeting in Boston. **Cancelled because of Covid-19 policies in USA**


June 2020: Artur Braun to deliver invited talk at the CIMTEC 2020 Congress in Italy, Montecassini. **Cancelled because of Covid-19 policies in Italy**


May 2020: Artur Braun to deliver key note talk at 4th Energy Future Conference in Australia.  **This event was cancelled because of Covid-19 policies in Australia**


April 2020: MRS Spring Meeting 2020 in Phoenix Arizona


February 3-7, 2020: SUNRISE and SUNERGY Workshops in Bruxelles


December 2019: The Swiss National Science Foundation's "Flanders Switzerland Leadinghouse Programme" grants Artur Braun the 455’000 CHF funds for a 4-year project on the bioelectric interfaces between semiconductor photoelectrodes and cyanobacteria, as a joint project with Hasselt University and SCK-CEN, the Belgian Nuclear Research Center.


1. October 2019: The Swiss National Science Foundation is going to fund the research project “Proton conductivity in thin strained epitaxial films” with an amount of 361’000 CHF for Artur Braun, Qianli Chen (University of Michigan - Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Coleman X. Kronawitter (University of California at Davis), for a duration of 3 years. 

27. September 2019: Swiss Stakeholder Workshop for the SUNRISE FET-Flagship project at Empa in Dübendorf. Over 30 participants.

23. September 2019: I got a visit by Industry Design Professor Mareike Gast and her colleagues and students! And could show them some of my PEC research. People from 

Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle

https://campus.burg-halle.de/gast/process/excursion-to-empa-pecs/

I need to make a correction on the link. I did not “invent” the PEC :-) ...

4.-9. August 2019: Artur Braun to deliver keynote talk at the 70th ISE Meeting in Durban, South Africa.


31 Jul. - 2. Aug. 2019: Artur Braun to deliver keynote speech at the ENSTIN Meeting in Pilanesberg, South Africa.

Energy Storage and Industry 4.0: Challenges and Prospects

http://www.saci.co.za/ESI2019/Invited_Speakers.html


30 July 2019: Artur Braun to deliver an invited talk about the EU Horizon2020 SUNRISE project at University of Pretoria’s Future Africa Campus.




17 June 2019: Artur Braun speaks at Global Alliance for Powerfuels panel in Bruxelles.

https://www.dena.de/en/newsroom/meldungen/2019/global-alliance-powerfuels-presents-guidelines-for-market-development/


May 27.-31. 2019 in Nizza, France. Artur Braun to deliver invited talk at E-MRS Spring Meeting on “Latest Advances in Solar Fuels”.


13. June 2019: Artur Braun visited Mersin University in Turkey and deliver there an invited talk and present the EU SUNRISE project. Here at the book signing with Rector Prof. Ahmet Camsari and Prof. Selma Erat.


May 26.-31. 2019 in Dallas, 235th ECS Meeting.

Artur Braun to deliver invited talk. **I had to cancel this trip due to calendar conflict with E-MRS Nizza**





1. March 2019: The SUNRISE Flagship CSA project has been selected for funding by the European Commission. A phantastic milestone for major funding for artificial photosynthesis.


April 22-26, 2019. MRS Spring Meeting in Phoenix AZ.

Artur Braun will deliver 6 talks at this meeting.


January 26 2019: My summary of 20’000 kilometre expedition across Europa with hydrogen and fuel cell car is now published:

Von der Nordsee bis Venedig: Mit Wasserstoff und Brennstoffzelle Europa “erfahren“. Eine “Auto“-Biographie. Buy here: Taschenbuch – 26. Januar 2019


Events in the year 2019

November 19-23, 2018 in Somerset West, South Africa: NanoSMat Africa 2018 . Artur Braun delivers invited talk on the proton polaron. Artur Braun meets C.N.R. Rao.



November 17, 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa. Artur Braun delivers a talk at the South African Institute for Environmental Health (SAIEH) on soot and air pollution.



November 13, 2018 in Berlin. Artur Braun delivers invited talk on “The Discovery of the Proton Polaron" at EERA AMPEA Workshop.

5. November 2018: Der Setzer hat die letzten Korrekturen übernommen und das Buch zum Druck versandt. Die Veröffentlichung ist am 3. Dezember 2018.


     



November 4-7, 2018 in Tartu, Estonia: 7th Baltic Electrochemistry Conference: Finding New Inspiration (BEChem 2018). Artur Braun Member of Scientific Advisory  Board.


6 September 2018

Artur Braun signed the publishing contract for his 3rd graduate level textbook.


27 August 2018

Artur Braun to talk about the proton polaron at Universite de Montreal, and will visit Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.


19-24 August 2018: Artur Braun invited talk at "The 14th International Conference on X-ray Microscopy (XRM2018)”, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.



16 August 2018: Artur Braun will deliver an invited talk at the Molecular Foundry, Berkeley National Laboratory. 


This here shows Artur Braun with a slide where I spoke about carbon supercapacitors and small angle neutron scattering. Old data from my PhD thesis.



15-20 July 2018: Artur Braun to deliver an invited talk at the QENS/WINS in Hong Kong. (www.qens-wins2018.com). I will talk about the discovery of the proton polaron, as published by Nature Communications in 2017.



9. Juli 2018: Der De Gruyter Verlag hat mein 550-seitiges Manuskript (mein 2. Buch!) zum Setzer geschickt. toi toi toi !


2 July 2018: My South Africa colleagues Mmantsae Diale and Malik Maaza were among those who receive the NSTF Science Awards.Congratulations!

14 June 2018. Artur Braun pioneers the trip to the Mediterranean Sea with a commerically available hydrogen fuel cell car from Bozen to Venice, Italy. With the previous trip to Noordwijk aan Zee, this is the first recorded trip from the North Sea to the Mediterranean with a regular H2 FCEV. A record !

Here is the Hyundai ix35 fuelcell car at the Piazzale Roma, Venezia, 14 June 2018, 12:15 noon.

Here is the car at the refill at IIT H2, Bozen, 14 June 2018, 16:25 pm.


10-16 June 2018 in Brixen Bressanone, Südtirol, 5th Photobiologoy School. Artur Braun will present his groups research on biophotoelectrochemical systems.


The 100th birthday of Physicist Richard Feynman. Here is the Richard Feynman Tuwa Postcard which I received from Klaus Kurre.:


May 2018, European Commission: The SUNRISE Flagship is making progress ! We will take care of CO2 and and make solar fuels from it and chemicals. We passed the 1st stage for the CSA !


April 2 - April 6, 2018, 2018 MRS Spring Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona. 



Poster by Artur Braun and Qianli Chen *Nominated for MRS Award!*: Influence of Compressive and Tensile Strain on the Proton-Polaron Driven Proton Transport in Ceramic Electrolyte Membranes. Symposium: EN21: Next-Generation Solid-State Super Ion Conductors 

PosterIn Situ Determination of Electronic Structure and Transport Properties of the Interface of Biofilms and Light Harvesting Proteins on Metal Oxide Semiconductor Photoelectrodes Under Electrophysiological Conditions. Symposium: SM04: Understanding and Controlling the Structure and Function of Biomolecules at Material Interfaces 

Oral: A Combined In Situ Electronic Structure and Proton Transport Study with (T,p1,p2) Parameterized X-Ray Spectroscopy and Neutron Scattering. Symposium: CM04: In Situ and Operando Characterization of Materials and Devices by X-Ray and Neutron 

Oral: Charge Transfer Between the Thylakoid Membrane and Metal Electrodes and Metal Oxide Electrodes. Symposium: SM03: Engineered Functional Biointerfaces—From Electronics and Nanomaterials to Biocircuits and Bionanomaterials 

Oral: A PEC Reactor Based on Low Cost Abundant Materials. Symposium: EN11: Nanomaterials for the Water and Energy Nexus 

Oral: In Situ and Operando Resonant Valence Band Photoemission Study on Surfaces and Buffer Layer Interfaces in Water Splitting Photoelectrodes. Symposium: EN20: Deposition, Transformation and Reaction at Functional Interfaces for Electrochemical Energy Systems 

Upgradet to  Oral presentation: Printing Without a Printer—Functional Self-Organized Microstructures by Controlled Reaction-Diffusion-Precipitation Wet-Stamping Method Size of "Printed” Particles. Symposium: MA01: Advanced Materials for Analog and Digital Functional Printing

7 March 2018: Thanks to Hyundai Switzerland for inviting me to the Geneva International Motor Show. Rather than talking there about hydrogen fuel cell cars, I chose to drive there with the Hyundai ix35 fuelcell. I broke yet another record with that car. Long trip from Zürich to Martigny to the Auto-Salon in Geneva, and back to Zürich via Fribourg. Thanks to the gas stations from EPFL and SwissHydrogen S.A. for illing me up!

Here you see Empa’s ix35 which I drove from Zürich to Geneva.

  

Here the new NEXO. It would not require a refill from Zürich to Geneva and back to Zürich. Too bad that Hyundai did not consider giving me that car to try it out.


20 February 2018: We have submitted  today the CSA proposal for the Flagship Initiative SUNRISE: http://www.sunriseflagship.eu


2-5 March 2018: Invited talk. On behalf of the organizing committee we are pleased to attach the official invitation letter to 3rd Molecules and Materials for Artificial Photosynthesis Conference 2018 in Cancun, Mexico.


25 January 2018: Artur Braun pays the European Space Agency ESA a visit with the Hyundai ix35 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car. See for yourself.



22. January 2018: Long range drive from Zürich to the North Sea with H2 Fuel Cell vehicle. Over 900 km with hydrogen. A new record by Artur Braun.

While the Leaders are meeting for the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland, we are setting in The Netherlands the frame, the goal and the solution for a real new energy economy for the future, with power for all people: SUNRISE, the European Energy Flagship Program.


  • Events in 2017

4 December 2017: Foreign Policy magazine welcomes Global Thinkers of 2017 at the MEAD Center for American Theatre in Washington D.C. Artur Braun had there a brief chat with Chelsea Manning,  Germany’s Minister Holger Mahnicke and Prof. Axel. Jansen. Here’s to the full photo record on smugmug.

 

28 November 2017: Josef Simfukwe from University of Pretoria/Copperbelt University Sambia wins MRS Poster Award in Boston MA, USA. 

17 November 2017: Annual Assembly Meeting of the Daylight Academy in Lausanne. Another Hydrogen Vehicle tour.

3 November 2017: Publication of the Lightbook by Science/AAAS.

 



28 November 2017: The JMR “Jan van der Merwe” Focus Issue on Epitaxy is out! A collaboration of Empa and university of Pretoria. See me here with Prof. Mmantsae Diale from University of Pretoria and Jenny MacBeth, MRS M&C Coordinator at MRS Fall Meeting 2017 in the Hynes Convention Center.

    

26 Nov - 1 Dec 2017: Looking farward to MRS Fall Meeting 2017 in Boston, MA.

A Short and Golden Age of Solar Fuel Pioneering, November 27, 2017, 08:30 AM to 09:00 AM, Invited Speaker, Hynes, Level 3, Room 306

Correlation of Defect Property and Electric Transport Properties of Metal Oxide Electrodes and Solid Electrolytes, November 27, 2017, 04:00 PM to 04:15 PM, Hynes, Level 2, Room 207

Mathematical Modelling for The FLUOREX Nuclear Fuel Recycling Process, November 28, 2017, 08:00 PM to 10:00 PM, Poster at Hynes, Level 1, Hall B

At the Nexus between Animate and Inanimate Matter—Biological Materials, Components and Devices, November 29, 2017, 04:15 PM to 04:30 PM, Sheraton, 2nd Floor, Back Bay D

Printing without a Printer (Printerless Printing)—Functional Self-Organized Microstructures by Controlled Reaction-Diffusion-Precipitation, November 30, 2017, 08:30 AM to 08:45 AM, Hynes, Level 1, Room 103

The Discovery of the Proton Polaron, November 30, 2017, 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM, Invited Speaker, Hynes, Level 2, Room 200



31 October 2017: Artur Braun concludes his visiting faculty sabbatical at Yonsei University in Korea.

28 October 2017: Artur Braun spoke at “Study in Europefair in Seoul, Grand Hilton Hotel, Korea. https://ec.europa.eu/education/study-in-europe/events_en











27 October 2017: Artur Braun attends diplomatic reception at Grand Hilton Hotel in Seoul by invitation of the Ambassador of the E.U. to the Republic of Korea.

2-4 October 2017: Workshop at Advanced Lightsource Users Meeting 2017 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory organized by Jong Seto (UCSF) and Artur Braun (Empa): Frontiers of Synchrotron Studies into Biological Materials, Components, and Systems” Workshop

21 September 2017: Meeting on Artificial Photosynthesis in Bruxelles, Belgium.


Invited talk as highlight at Symposium D1 dedicated to “Materials Science with Synchrotron Radiation X-rays” of the EUROMAT2017 Conference to be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, 19 September, 2017.

28 July 2017: Dr. Eberhard Lehmann, Pionier of Neutron Tomography, retires from Paul Scherrer Institut. I thought I should bring two of our PhD students to join the Farewell Symposium & Dinner.


  

Looking forward to my sabbatical at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

   

Looking forward to my invited talk at "Processes at the Semiconductor Solution Interface”, 231st Meeting of The Electrochemical Society, New Orleans LA, 28 May- 02June 2017.

Operando Investigation of the Chemical Interaction of Water Vapor with Ceramic Proton Conductors, Thursday, 1 June 2017: 11:00

X-Ray Spectroscopic and Electroanalytical Studies on the Bio-Electic Interface of Metal Oxide Semiconductors and Algal Proteins and Biofilms, Wednesday, 31 May 2017: 17:40

Supercapacitor Stack Built from Monolithic Porous Glassy Carbon Electrodes, Wednesday, 31 May 2017: 17:00

(Invited) Some Observations on the Electrochemical Interface of Hematite in Alkaline Electrolyte during Solar Water Oxidation, Tuesday, 30 May 2017: 17:10

Investigation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Anodes, Cathodes and Electrolytes with X-Ray Scattering and Spectroscopy, Tuesday, 30 May 2017: 15:00


  

18-23 June 2017: Artur Braun giving invited keynote talk at 21st International Conference on Solid State Ionics, Padua, Italy. http://www.chimica.unipd.it/ssi21/Invited_I_17.html

Met many friends and colleagues there.


12 June 2017: Invited talk at TU Darmstadt with Professor Jägermann. I drove there with Empa’s Hyundai ix35 hydrogen fuel cell electric vehivle. Pumped gas in Air Liquide Offenbach at Fraunhofer ISE in Freiburg.

"Thank you" to Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt in Berlin for an invited talk at  ALTECH E-MRS in Strassbourg, 24 May 2017. 

24 May 2017: invited talk at the ALTECH 2017 Conference in Strassbourg, France.



3 May 2017: Dr. Yelin Hu did his final PhD presentation at EPFL Lausanne.

MRS Spring Meeting 2017 in Phoenix, AZ

Looking forward to my talk "A Bio-Inspired and Self-Assembled Water Oxidation Photoelectrode Based on Moth-Eye Photonic Architecture" (Symposium: ED5: Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures, 2017 MRS Spring Meeting, April 17-21, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona).


Looking forward to my talk "Intermediates in PEC Water Oxidation—How They Come and How They Go”. Symposium: ES7: (Photo)Electrocatalytic Materials and Integrated Assemblies for Solar Fuels Production——Discovery, Characterization and Performance, 2017 MRS Spring Meeting, April 17-21, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona).


Looking forward to my talk "Reaction Model for Fluorination of Uranium Dioxide Using Improved Unreacted Shrinking Core Model for Expanding Spherical Particles“. Symposium: ES5: Advances in Materials, Experiments and Modeling for Nuclear Energy, 2017 MRS Spring Meeting, April 17-21, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona).


Looking forward to my talk "Depth and Width of Interfaces—Assessment Soft X-Ray Electronic Structure of Battery Electrodes Operando with Hard X-Rays”. Symposium: ES13: Interfaces and Interphases in Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion, 2017 MRS Spring Meeting, April 17-21, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona).


Looking forward to my talk "High Pressure for Parameterization of the Proton-Phonon Coupling in Solid Electrolytes”. Symposium: CM1: Emergent Material Properties and Phase Transitions under Pressure, 2017 MRS Spring Meeting, April 17-21, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona).


Looking forward to TO-BE SPRING MEETING 2017 (TOWARDS OXIDE-BASED ELECTRONICS) in Luxemburg 3-5 April 2017.

By the way. I went from Zürich to Luxembourg with a Hyunday ic35 electric vehicle  powered by hydrogen gas from the CEP and H2mobility gas stations in Wuppertal (Shell), Offenbach (Air Liquide), Hürth (St@rtHürth), Geisingen (Shell), and Empa. There is no hydrogen gas station in Luxembourg. This was a very long range trip with alternative mobility.

Dr. Artur Braun meets Dr. Jane Goodall on 28 March 2017 at Carnegie Endowmnent for International Peace in Washington D.C. See here the movie. Photo courtesy Paul Anninos.

Today on 14 March 2017 we installed the Ambient Pressure Photoemission Spectrometer from KP Technologies. Took less than 2 hours. Wonderful.

My record drive from Zürich to Berlin 27 February - 6 March 2017 with the Empa hydrogen fuel cell car Hyundai ix35. Over 800 Kilometer. Only 1 intermediate stop at Geiselwind for hydrogen filling was necessary. The total tour with drives in Berlin and way back was a 2007 Kilometer. That’s a record!

  

Call for Papers JMR Focus Issue: Jan van der Merwe: Epitaxy and the Computer Age

Submission deadline 1 April 2017

Synchrotron beamtime at BESSY-II in Berlin February/March 2017 with colleagues from Berlin and Korea was great experience. Again about renewable energy. Energiewende: we are a part of it.

  

Looking forward to teaching electrochemistry and photoelectrochemsity in February 2017 at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.

Looking forward to my invited talk at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg and HZB Geesthacht 18/19 January 2017


  • Events in 2016

Congratulations to Mr. Yelin Hu for passing PhD exam at EPFL the 22nd December 2016.

16 December 2016: Artur Braun’s first drive with a Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell car !

Artur Braun participates in the Foreign Policy Global Thinkers Brainstorming Session: Tackling the Three Biggest Problems Facing the Next President; Four Seasons Hotel, Georgetown, Washington D.C., 12 December 2016.

 

Artur Braun to deliver four talks at the MRS Fall Meeting 2016 in Boston 28Nov - 1Dec.

Looking forward to the inauguration of the VELUX Daylight Academy 24 Nov. 2016.

The Journal of Materials Research Focus Issue organized by Empa and University of Pretoria has been approved by the JMR Editorial Office ! October 16, 2016.

De Gruyter publisher in Berlin is now taking orders for my book “X-ray Studies on Electrochemical Systems: Synchrotron Methods for Energy Materials” .

The book will appear in March 2017.

Looking forward to the Solar Fuels Workshop at University of Pretoria 6/7 October 2016 at University of Pretoria.

Yesterday 11 October 2016 I used the poster session at BESSY-II Energy Foresight Workshop in Berlin for the promotion of my book on synchrotron x-ray methods and electrochemical energy storage and conversion.

5 October 2016: Artur Braun delivered talk about epitaxial strain in magnetic films at University of Pretoria Physics Department.

Artur Braun to deliver talk “On the metafunction of protons in ceramic electrolytes" at QENS2016 in Berlin September6, 2016.

Artur Braun joined Editorial Board of Scientific Reports effective 31st August 2016.

Artur Braun to deliver keynote speech at SPIE 2016 in San Diego CA, 28Aug-1Sep 2016 on solar hydrogen and nanotechnology.


  

Artur Braun presented invited talk at the Biohybrid Solar Cell Meeting in Slenaken/Netherlands this week 4-7 August 2016.


1st August 2016: Artur Braun has submitted his 400 page book upon invitation to a major international publishing house for publication.

Artur Braun presented X-ray spectroscopy and electrochemistry concepts for metrology of energy storage and conversion at LNE, Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais, Paris, France - the 27th June 2016.



13. May 2016: Congratulations to Prof. Bongjin Simon for for receiving the ERTL Prize in Berlin !


Artur Braun to present talk at Polish-Swiss Battery Workshop LiBeV at Maria Sils, Engadina in June 2016: “X-rays And Neutrons: Pick & Shovel For The Materials Scientist”


Artur Braun and group members to present electrocatalyst research for the NanoTera project SHINE at EPFL Lausanne 25-26 April 2016.


Artur Braun to present invited talk at PSI Materials Seminar “On the metafunction of protons in ceramic electrolytes”, 18 April 2016, Villigen PSI https://www.psi.ch/materials/seminars

Artur Braun to present talk on ceramic proton conductors at COST CM1104 Meeting at University of Osnabrück the 7th April 2016: “Chemistry and dynamics of the proton phonon coupling in proton conducting ceramic electrolytes

Artur Braun to present talk at the MRS Chapter at University of Cologne the 6th April 2016: Materials Science on electrochemistry with X‐rays, neutrons and electrons ‐ and some light.


MRS 2016 Spring Meeting Symposium EE2 on solar fuels was a great success !

MRS 2016 Spring Meeting in Phoenix: Artur Braun to present invited talk at Symposium on colloidal nanoparticles. 31st March 2016


Artur Braun on diplomatic mission for nuclear safety, 11 March 2016, Berne, undisclosed.

January 2016: Springer Book is out with chapter from Artur Braun on artificial photosynthesis: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319230986

Artur Braun to present invited talk “Water oxidation with holes: what we learn from operando studies” on 11 March 2016 at 18th ISE Meeting in Gwangju, Korea (cancelled on short notice for private reasons, but two posters were presented)

  • Events in 2015

7. December 2015: Artur Braun delivers invited talk on energy research at BESSY’s “THz to Soft X-ray workshop” in Berlin, Germany.

3rd December 2015: Artur Braun participates in MRS PDSC Meeting in Boston MA

1st December 2015: Artur Braun meets gas fracking pioneer and FP global thinker Terry Engelder - and signs his infamous book of great people and great ideas.

  

1st December 2015: Artur Braun panel speaker on global warming at Foreign Policy’s Transformational Trends Forum in Washington D.C., alongside with Dr. Benjamin Barber, Governor Bruce Babbitt, Gulalai Ismail, Johanna Schwartz, and Boyan Slat.


1st December 2015: Artur Braun meets Bojan Slat (The Ocean Cleanup) and Eka Zguladze Glucksmann (First Deputy Interior Minister Ukraine).

30. November 2015: Artur Braun to visit Georgetown University Physics Department.


19.-20. November 2015: Empa’s Artur Braun to attend VELUX’ Daylight Workshop at WSL in Birmensdorf.

13. October 2015: Artur Braun to deliver talk “Light-Harvesting Proteins and Biofilms on Iron Oxide Photoelectrodes” at the 228th ECS Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. https://ecs.confex.com/ecs/228/webprogram/Paper56310.html

13. October 2015: Phoenix Arizona, Artur Braun attends the ECS Gerischer Award Ceremony for Adam Heller. https://ecs.confex.com/ecs/228/webprogram/Session14713.html http://www.che.utexas.edu/tag/2015-ecs-europe-section-heinz-gerischer-award/


13. October 2015: Artur Braun delivers invited talk on "Changes in Photoanodes during Solar Water Oxidation, the Wet Part of Artificial Photosynthesis" at the 228th ECS Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. https://ecs.confex.com/ecs/228/webprogram/Paper56316.html

25. September 2015: SCIEX Closing Conference at ETH Zürich with Asst.-Prof. Dr. Krisztina Gajda-Schrantz.

https://www.swissuniversities.ch/fileadmin/swissuniversities/Dokumente/Internationales/Sciex/150918_Programm-Sciex-Closing_Event.pdf

7. October 2015: Artur Braun to deliver talk on bio solar cells at the COST TD1102 Phototech Conference in Rome, Italy.

Towards a photosynthesis-biobased economy.

18. September 2015: Artur Braun delivers a “battery talk" at Sunkyunkwan University SKKU in Suwon, Korea.

17. September 2015: Artur Braun delivers talk at Yonsei University about solar bio cells (“There’s a tiny little engine”). Seoul, Korea

16. September 2015: Dr. Artur Braun/Empa and Prof. Bongjin S. Mun/GIST paid visit to Swiss Embassy’s Science & Technology Hub in Seoul, Korea.

15. September 2015: Artur Braun delivered talk at GIST Department of Physics and Photon Science, Gwangju, Korea. "The Hunt for the Holes. Uncovering the Physics and Chemistry in Solar Fuel Cells with Spectroscopy”.

http://www.gist.ac.kr/sub09/01_02.html?req_P=bv&req_BIDX=38&req_BNM=eg_notice&req_VI=45620

International Workshop on X-ray Spectroscopy and Electorchemistry at Empa, August 17-19 2015.

29. July 2015: Artur Braun presenting ambient pressure XPS work at Ceria MCE-2015 (COST CM1104) in Giessen, Germany (Schloss Rauischholzhausen).

14. and 15 July: Artur Braun presenting bio-mimetic and bio-organic solar energy storage and conversion at ACIN2015 in Namur, Belgium.

 

19. June 2015: Artur Braun delivering seminar talk at SCK-CEN Belgian Nuclear Research Center in Mol.

12. May 2015: Empa researcher Artur Braun with interview in Sankt Galler Tagblatt, Page 20, FOCUS: “Solarer Wasserstoff zum Fahren und Heizen”

17 April 2015: Empa’s Artur Braun delivers ALS Seminar talk on artificial photosynthesis by photoelectrochemical water splitting, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

June 2015: SNF Horizonte magazine Issue 105, pages 46-47, publishes a feature article about Rita Toth, congratulations !


17.-18. June 2015: Empa’s Artur Braun to deliver Plenary Lecture at the Dutch National Consortium on Photosynthesis and Artificial Photosynthesis “BioSolar Cells” at its Annual Meeting in Ede in the Netherlands.


Artur Braun Swiss Delegate at European Synchrotron User Organization Meeting in Berlin


11 April 2015: Artur Braun comments on the Meaning of Life with the Pursuit of Happiness in Nikolai Tanase’s Excellence Reporter Project, now published in a book.

6.-10. April 2015: Artur Braun to Chair MRS Spring Meeting 2015 in San Francisco.



13 March 2015: Empa’s Artur Braun delivers talk on solar water splitting at C-MET Thrissur, Center for Materials for Electonic Technology, Athani P.O., SH 22, Kerala 680581, India

13 March 2015: Talk on proton conductors at St. Teresa’s College, Ernakulam, Kerala, India



11 March 2015: Artur Braun to talk about proton conductivity in Kolkatta/India http://www.aofc2015.in/speaker.php

2 March 2015: Artur Braun, oral presentation about Solar water splitting: everything around iron oxide,  CPUT Belville Campus, South Africa

10 March 2015, Bengaluru, India, IIS SSCUTalk on solar water splitting

Artur Braun, D.D. Sarma and two valued colleagues at IIT Bangalore.

  • Events in 2014

1st December 2014 in Berlin Adlershof, presentation at the Tender X-ray Workshop http://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/user/workshops/tender-x-ray-workshop/programme_en.html

18th November 2014 in Washington D.C., U.S. Department of Energy http://energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/organization-chart-and-contacts

9th - 12th November 2014, Berlin Dahlem Harnackhaus, Keynote Speaker at 3rd Ertl Symposium on Surface Analysis and Dynamics http://env1.gist.ac.kr/ertl/new/ERTLCenter/page0703.html

Prof. Gerhard Ertl had a nice conversation with Dr. Artur Braun.



1. July 2014: Dr. Qianli Chen receives the Swiss Neutron Award for her PhD work entitled 'Effects of Pressure on the Proton-Phonon Coupling in Metal Oxides with Perovskite Structure’. Congratulations !


Artur Braun to present invited talk at SSPC-17 proton conductor coneference in Seoul, Korea, 14-19 September 2014




12. Juni 2014: Dr. Qianli Chen delivers a talk at her Max Planck Institut for Polymerforschung, on the occasion of her Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship.


19th September 2014, 2nd International Workshop on Nanotechnology,Renewable Energy & Sustainability, Xi’an, China: Talk on proton conductors http://202.38.126.201/xwzx/xwzx-news.php?Id=201

Congratulations to Mrs. Dr. Qianli Chen for winning the Swiss Neutron Young Scientist Award for her PhD work (Empa and ETHZ) entitled 'Effects of Pressure on the Proton-Phonon Coupling in Metal Oxides with Perovskite Structure’. 2 July 2014.https://sgn.web.psi.ch/sgn/snn/snn_44.pdf


Artur Braun to speak at the 562. WE-Heraeus-Seminar in Bad Honnef Germany: From Sunlight to Fuels - Novel Materials and Processes for Photovoltaic and (Photo)Catalytic Applications, 12-16 May 2014

15-16 May 2014, Grenoble (Sassenage Autrans), France QENS WINS 2014. Artur Braun delivers talk on protonton conductors and neutron scattering.


29 April 2014 Artur Braun delivered talk at Arizona State University and met with Tom & Ana Moore, Devens Gust.


December 2013: Dr. Debajeet Bora receives the Empa Research Award 2013 - a 5000 Schweizer Franken package - for his outstanding PhD thesis with Uni Basel. Congratulations !


 21 April 2014: US DoE PEC working Group Meeting, Stanford University. Artur Braun lets Florent Boudoire present the invited talk at the Meeting in Stanford.

  • Events in 2013

Congratulations for PhD Student Mr. Florent Boudoire for winning the Oral Award 3rd place, Empa PhD Symposium 2013.

20 August 2013: Urszula Kaczorowska (OPI, Warsaw) interviews Dr. Artur Braun about his research project on lithium batteries.


Artur Braun participates in the AMPEA Meeting at Uppsala University in Sweden.


Elena Rozhkova, Ana Moore, Artur Braun and Katsuhiko Ariga organize MRS 2013 Spring Meeting Symposium on Artificial Photosynthesis in San Francisco.


Congratulations to Mr. Dr. Debajeet K. Bora for winning the Empa Research Award 2013 - a 5000 Swiss Francs cash award. Empa PhD Thesis Award in 2013.



2013: Congratulations to Mrs. Dr. Dorota Flak for winning the AGH Krakow PhD Thesis Award for her thesis partially done at Empa.


Artur Braun 21 June 2013, COST TD1102 PHOTOTECH Meeting in Antwerpen

  • Events in 2012

11 December 2012. Braun A.; "An overview of ex situ and in situ neutron and synchrotron experiments on electrochemical energy storage and conversion materials, components and systems", presented at Energy storage systems (Energy materials)- New opportunities for metrology: Material - science meets electrochemistry, Berlin

Jigang Zhou, Jane Howe, Artur Braun and Chongmin Wang organize MRS 2012 Fall Meeting Symposium on in situ methods in Boston MA.

Media Release about diesel soot toxicity.


Artur Braun at AMPEA Meeting at MPI Mühlheim-Ruhr

Nov. 2012. Braun A.; Spectroscopic studies on hematite - the prospective inorganic backbone for solar water splitting and artificial photosynthesis; BESSY CRG Review Meeting, Berlin.

24-27 July 2012, "Recent Advances in Electrochemical Energy Materials and Devices", India Institute of Science, Bangalore http://sscu.iisc.ernet.in/ANINDACONF.html http://sscu.iisc.ernet.in/office-forms-15-09-09/Programme.pdf

Artur Braun at MSE 2012 in Darmstadt

Artur Braun at SwissFEL Symposium

Artur Braun at PSI electrochemistry Symposium May 2012

18-22 June 2012 in Vienna, Austria. Artur Braun speaks before the United Nations at the European X-ray Spectrometry Conference (EXRS 2012) , http://www.ati.ac.at/EXRS2012/

Thanks goes to Dr. Burkhard Beckhoff from PTB Berlin for the invitation!

24-27 June 2012, Stuttgart, Germany. Braun A.; 2nd Ertl Symposium on Surface and Interface Chemistry. “The role of defects in hematite for solar water splitting, and its experimental assessment with x-ray and photoelectron spectroscopy methods” http://env1.gist.ac.kr/ertl/new/ERTLCenter/page0702.html



1. February 2012: Dr. Rita Toth wins a Marie Heim-Voegtlin Grant for reseach on “Self-organization processes to pattern thin films: A bottom-up approach for photoelectrodes”  - 133900 CHF. Congratulations !

Rita Toth is so far the 2nd such Grant Awardee from Empa of this competitive program from SNF.


27 February 2012 SAOG at University of Fribourg



January 2012: Asst.-Prof. Selma Erat secures a faculty position as Associate Professor at Toros University. Congratulations !


Artur Braun at 2012 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco


  • Events in 2011

25 November 2011. Braun A., Fachtagung Prozessnahe Röntgenanalytik, Berlin http://www.iap-adlershof.de/prora/prora2011.pdf

Artur Braun, Sossina Haile, Robert Robinson and Paul Gannon organize MRS Symposium on protons in solids at MRS 2011 Spring Meeting in San Francisco.

Artur Braun, Panel Speaker at Sciex meets its Fellows, 19. October 2011, Hotel Bellevue, Bern.


27-31 August 2011: Artur Braun to lecture at Conference School in Palanga, Lithuania.


8. May 2011: 481. W E Heraeus Seminar on Energy Materials Research by Neutrons and Synchrotron, Radiation, 08.05. - 11.05.2011  Bad Honnef (Germany). 

Artur Braun trifft Christian Pettenkofer.



14 October 2011: Braun A., Some Applications of Synchrotron Spectroscopy to Energy Materials Research, 14 October 2011, Pohang Light Source

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2011: Artur Braun to deliver invited talk at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Crystallography in Geneva.


7 October 2011: Artur Braun to deliver a talk at Physics Department at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea http://phome.postech.ac.kr/user/boardList.action?command=list&page=18&boardId=48508&boardSeq=36044


15 September 2011: JUMP User Meeting at PSI

2011 E-MRS Conference in Nice, France

Artur Braun delivers talk first talk on his operando PEC NEXAFS work at 5th Gerischer Symposium 22-24 Juni 2011 in Berlin.


13-15 July 2011: Artur Braun delivers invited talk at the CECAM workshop at ETH Zürich.

19 April 2011 the 12th Swiss Global change Day in Bern

http://www.naturwissenschaften.ch/service/events/77863-12th-swiss-global-change-day-in-bern

MRS Spring Meeting 2011 in San Francisco


March 2011 in Bad Godesberg, ModVal8

  • Events in 2010

Artur Braun to talk about SOFC at NGES 2010 in Bonn Bad-Godesberg.


12 July 2010: Artur Braun delivered invited talk at NIMS Conference 2010 in Tsukuba, Japan


August 2010: Artur Braun lectures at Materials Conference and Summer School in Palanga, Lithuania.


2010: Artur Braun delivers invited talk at Swiss Crystallograpy Society Meeting in Geneva.


MRS Proceedings Volume 1262 published - after 2010 MRS Spring Meeting - Symposium V/W – In Situ and operando Probing of Energy Materials at Multiscale Down to Single Atomic Column-The Power of X-Rays, Neutrons and Electron Microscopy Editors: Chongmin Wang, Niels de Jonge, Rafael E. Dunin-Borkowski, Artur Braun, Jinghua Guo, Helmut Schober, Randall E. Winans

15. April 2010: Artur Braun meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel with other German scientists at Berkeley National Laboratory. Since I was representing Switzerland, I was  not on the original list of invitees. But Hendrik Bluhm had helped - see for yourself (Photo credit to Bundespresseamt and Berkeley Lab).

  • Events in 2009

10 Sep 2009: Climate Forum at University of Berne. Artur Braun presents poster on airborne particulate matter.


The ever first MRS Symposium on photoelectrochemistry is lead-organized by Empa’s Artur Braun, Berkeley’s Paul Alivisatos, NREL’s John Turner, NIMS’ Yinhua Ye, and Bayer’s Egbert Figgemeier in Spring 2009 in San Francisco.

  • Events in 2008

2008 XAS workshop at PSI

1-4 September 2008: MSE Conference, Nürnberg. Artur Braun to present various research results and serves as Session Chair.

21-25 January 2008: Artur Braun invited as Swiss delegate to provide expertise on renewable energy at IPCC Scoping Meeting in Lübeck.


  • Events in 2007

22-24 October 2007, Genoa, Italy, Artur Braun presents invited talk at the ESF Exploratory Workshop on Proton Conducting Ceramics

 

12 June 2007 CCEM General Assembly


  • Events in 2006

27August-1Sep 2006. Artur Braun delivers talk about LaSrFeNi-oxide SOFC cathodes at the 57th ISE Meeting, Scotland at Harriott Watts University.

  • Events in 2005
  • Events in 2003
  • Events in 2002
  • Events in 2001

October 2001: Artur Braun moves to Kentucky to work with the Consortium for Fossil Fuel Liquefaction Sciences CFFLS.

11 September 2001: In the early morning of this day I receive notification from a colleague in Europe that there is something going on in New York. 5 minutes later I see the news in the TV ...

  • Events in 2000
  • Events in 1999

16. October 1999: Artur Braun joins University of California Berkeley at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Prof. Cairns’ battery group.


1 September 1999: Dr. Artur Braun joins the Peter Böni Group at Laboratory for Neutron Scattering as Postdoc researcher for neutron reflectometry, in charge of the TOPSI reflectometer at SINQ.

June 1999: Artur Braun visits Sandra National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

3. May 1999, Artur Braun “Über den Einfluss epitaktischer Verspannungen auf die magnetische Anisotropie dünner Metallfilme", Paul Scherrer Institut, Laboratory for Neutron Scattering.

April 1999: Artur Braun’s debut at Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California. With an invited talk on supercapacitors and session chair, thanks to my colleague Dr. Hans-Peter Brack.

1998: PSI X-ray and Neutron summerschool in Zuoz.


2. August 1996: Artur Braun assumes his duties as Wissenschaftlicher Beamter at Paul Scherrer Institut as a PhD Student.

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