We are a dynamic and international research team based in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Our laboratory creates novel ideas and concepts, assembles innovative prototype devices and develops emerging technologies for the solar-powered conversion of waste, water and air into sustainable fuels and chemicals. A long-standing strength of our team is commitment to collaborative and cross-disciplinary science, with chemists, physicists, materials and nano-scientists, chemical biologists, synthetic biologists, engineers and entrepreneurs working together in our laboratory. We currently focus on solar-powered technologies for the upcycling of plastic and biomass waste as well as the valorisation of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide to produce green fuels and chemicals and ultimately enable solar circular chemical industries.

We are excited to announce that the Reisner Lab will be celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2025! To mark this special occasion, we will be hosting a two-day event on September 6-7, 2025 at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge:

•Cambridge Solar Chemistry Symposium – Saturday, September 6, 2025

•Reisner Lab Alumni Event - 15th Anniversary – Sunday, September 7, 2025

If you are interested in attending, we kindly ask you to fill out this form https://forms.gle/zhCQFrt2iQbcJ1y46 by November 4, 2024, to confirm your interest. PhD Studentship in Chemistry for Catalytic CO₂ Utilisation (Link)
PhD Studentship in Solar Chemical Technologies (Link)

February 2025

Yongpeng and Santiago's semi-artificial micelles for solar fuel synthesis published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (Link). Sayan's paper on solar air-to-syngas conversion published in Nat. Energy (Link). Virgil's paper on perovskite-driven solar C₂ hydrocarbon synthesis published in Nat. Catal. (Link).

January 2025

Virgil and Motiar's EIC Horizon Prize 'Fuel from the Sun' competition paper in collaboration with the StranksLab published in Energy Environ. Sci. (Link).