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ReisnerLab
@reisnerlab.bsky.social
Research laboratory at Cambridge University. Our work focuses on artificial photosynthesis to make renewable fuels.☀️☀️PhD-run account.
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📢📢📢 We're hiring! 📢📢📢

The @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social Department is looking for an Assistant Professor in Solar Chemical Technologies ☀️

Our group is now accepting #PhD applications to start in October 2026 🎓

Find more here:
www-reisner.ch.cam.ac.uk/positions.html
📢📢📢 We're hiring! 📢📢📢

The @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social Department is looking for an Assistant Professor in Solar Chemical Technologies ☀️

Our group is now accepting #PhD applications to start in October 2026 🎓

Find more here:
www-reisner.ch.cam.ac.uk/positions.html
November 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
To expand the expertise of our group, we also welcome our new #postdoc Xinbang Wu 🤗

He'll work on one-pot #depolymerization of #polyurethane waste using #photoelectrochemical methods ♻️☀️⚡️

Besides being an excellent #scientist, Xinbang is also a passionate #guitarist 🎸🎶
October 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
One more #PhD student joining our solar team 🌞

Qingxin will explore new catalysts for #photoelectrochemical devices ☀️⚡️

When not playing with #light and #electrodes, she enjoys playing the #piano, learning #German and going to performances and #exhibitions 🎹🖼️
October 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
New start of the academic year, fresh faces to join our team 😁

Andrew is one of our new #PhD students! He'll be developing multi-#enzyme #cascade systems to produce complex products ☀️➡️➡️🌱➡️➡️🧪

Outside the lab, he enjoys woodwork, reading, tennis and playing music 🪵🎾🎵
October 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The @reisnerlab.bsky.social wishes to honour and acknowledge the achievements of black people in the occasion of the #BlackHistory month ✊⚫️

Thanks to our PhD student Kay for sharing some insightful reflections on how much #diversity is powerful in #science 🤝🥼
October 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Our favourite #bioengineer Irina is leaving our group for exciting new beginnings 🤗

Irina was awarded an Innovate UK grant for her start-up, Cambridge Molecular Computers Ltd, bridging #DNA programmability and #bioinformatics 🦠💻

All the best for your new adventure, Irina 💪
October 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
#OPV and #enzymes combined in a semi-artificial leaf for selective #CO2-to-#formate conversion ☀️🍃

Read here our latest work by @celineyeungws.bsky.social and Yongpeng Liu on Joule by @cellpress.bsky.social 🎉🎉

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Semi-artificial leaf interfacing organic semiconductors and enzymes for solar chemical synthesis
Photoelectrochemical biohybrids combine the advantages of light-harvesting semiconductors and biocatalysts into a single compact device. However, limi…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Nice to re-connect with the University #alumni community 🤝

Erwin gave a talk to update @cam.ac.uk graduates on the exciting #science that our Department keeps fostering 🧪 🚀
September 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
#COF and CNx join forces for scalable #photoreforming 💪🍃

Check our latest work led by Suvendu on covalent organic frameworks-carbon nitride Z-scheme for the photoreforming of #plastic and #biomass ☀️

doi.org/10.1002/adma...
Covalent Organic Framework and Carbon Nitride Composite for Scalable Solar Reforming
A modular composite, containing a covalent organic framework, indium tin oxide, carbon nitride and nickel based molecular catalyst, enables solar reforming under neutral aqueous conditions, convertin....
doi.org
September 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
#Connecting with our #alumni🔗

Carla Casadevall (2020-2022) enthusiastically worked on #carbon-based materials for #photocatalysis 💪🌱☀️

Now group leader at @iciq.org, her mission is turning sunlight into chemicals with nanoreactors 🔍

Here her #memories of the @reisnerlab.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
#Connecting with our #alumni 🔗

We remember Qian Wang for her many contributions as a postdoc in our group (2018-2021) 🫴☀️

Today, she's happily leading her own #research group as a full #professor at @en.nagoya-u.ac.jp
🌸

Here are some of her #memories of the
@reisnerlab.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Great week enjoying the breeze on Lake Como in Italy at the International School on Material Interfaces for Engineering Living Systems, where Glenn presented his results on Organic #Semiconductors-#Bacteria #Biohybrids 🥤🦠☀️
September 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
It was great to celebrate 15 years of the @reisnerlab.bsky.social with our alumni! 🥳

Inspiring stories of their paths since they left our #sun-driven lab in Cambridge at our symposium in St John's College and fun at our Sunday #BBQ ☀️🍔

Can't wait to reunite a wider #family of alumni next time!
September 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Great opportunity to work at the interface between #microbiology, #photocatalysis and #electrocatalysis as a project coordinator of our recently EIC-funded #sunlight-to-food project ☀️➡️🍔 led by @biophotoelectro.bsky.social
September 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Finally, the final plenary talk speaker, and a notable member of the @reisnerlab.bsky.social received the Tilden Prize from the @rsc.org 🏆

Congratulations, Erwin 👏👏🥳
#ISF2025
September 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
And here is a beautiful collage of poster presenters 📊
Nice to see the happy faces of our PhD students Afreen, Ariffin, Beverly, and Sampurna 😁😁😁

@rsc.org #ISF2025
September 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Recently graduated, jointly supervised by our and @biophotoelectro.bsky.social's lab, Rachel Egan summarises her thorough PhD exploration on wired photosynthetic #cyanobacterias on #electrodes 👏👏🦠⚡️

@rsc.org #ISF2025
September 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
One of our #bio-hybrid enthusiast alumni, Shafeer Kalathil, now Assistant Professor at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, giving updates on his independent research since he left our lab 🦠☀️

@rsc.org #ISF2025
September 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Now lecturer at @qmul.bsky.social, Lin Su still finds it hard to detach from the @reisnerlab.bsky.social ❤️
He joined us to share his experience with E. coli and artificial #photosynthesis 🦠🍃🌞

@rsc.org #ISF2025
September 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
#Bacteria 🦠 and #light 💡 team up to convert #CO2 into complex products in the story of Santiago Rodríguez-Jiménez's committed research in our lab

@rsc.org #ISF2025
September 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A colourful, enthusiastic journey into the secret life of #enzymes on #semiconductors unravelled by our Yongpeng Liu 🚀

@rsc.org #ISF2025
September 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
One more member of the early days of the lab, Moritz Kühnel, now Professor at @unihohenheim.bsky.social, showcasing his latest results on O2-tolerant #photocatalysis for #enzymatic and bio-driven #chemical conversion 🎈☀️♻️

@rsc.org #ISF2025
September 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
One of the earliest members of the lab, Chia-Yu Lin, now professor at National Cheng Kung University, giving insights into iodide-enhanced
#CO2RR to C2+ products.

@rsc.org #ISF2025
September 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Our recent alumnus @virgilandrei.bsky.social, now Assistant Professor at NTU Singapore, presenting an overview of his work on #PEC devices developed through years of PhD and postdoctoral research in our lab 💪💪☀️⚡️

@rsc.org #ISF2025
September 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM