(Credit: Dr. René Wick-Joliat)

The LightChEC research program is structured in nine interdisciplinary research topics, which are each lead by a different research group:

Photocatalytic Water Reduction WRC and Photosensitizers

Lead by Prof. Roger Alberto

Visible-Light-Driven Water Oxidation Catalysts WOC

Lead by Prof. Greta Patzke

Surfaces and Interfaces

Lead by Prof. Jürg Osterwalder

Timeresolved Spectroscopy of Artificial Photosynthetic Systems

Lead by Prof. Peter Hamm

Computation of Dynamic Properties of Water Oxidation 

Lead by Prof. Juerg Hutter

Electronic Structure of materials for solar-water splitting

Lead by Dr. Andreas Borgschulte

Catalysts for CO2 conversion into liquid sunlight

Lead by Prof. Karl-Heinz Ernst

Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting with Thin Film Semiconductors

Lead by Prof. David Tilley

Computational study and design of systems for water splitting

Lead by Prof. Sandra Luber