We are delighted to welcome Dr. Bagemihl as a visiting scholar at the IOM since October. He has just returned from the USA, where he spent a year conducting research at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh as part of the highly competitive DAAD PRIME scholarship program. The program provides postdocs with funding for a total of 1.5 years at two research institutions—Dr. Bagemihl is now completing the final six months at the IOM. At NCSU, he conducted research in the Department of Chemistry on optically induced polarization and the synthesis of novel earth-abundant metal complexes. Prior to that, he earned his doctorate in 2024 at the University of Ulm with a thesis on photocatalytic hydrogen evolution using metal complexes. The photo – a view through the neck of a round-bottom flask at a particularly “fluffy” powder – shows an example of the metal complexes that Dr. Bagemihl produced in the USA and will now continue to investigate at the IOM.
We warmly welcome Dr. Bagemihl to the IOM and are looking forward to working with him in the “Switchable Molecularly Functionalized Surfaces” working group.