Celine and Rachel have been appointed as nanoDTC Associates.

Qian and Chanon's review on complementary solar fuel approaches published in Nat. Energy (to paper). Photocatalytic CO₂ reduction liposomes with Santiago's contribution published in Chem. Eur. J. (to paper).

Subhajit's bias-free PEC reforming paper accepted in Adv. Funct. Mater. (to paper). The panel discussion about biohybrids in support of COP26 is available online (Link).

Marion, Celine, and Dongseok join the group as PhD students, Ariffin as MPhil student, Navyaa, Jawwad and Ben as Part III students. Virgil receives the Best Contributed Talk on Energy Prize at the E-MRS 2021 Fall Meeting. Rachel receives a Chemical Science Outstanding Poster Prize at the Chemical Science Symposium 2021. Collaborative paper on CNx-catalysed azolation with Arjun's and Carla's contribution published in ChemSusChem (to paper). Microplastics in lakes paper with Christian's contribution published in PLoS Biol. (to paper). Esther's paper on tandem PEC with FDH for conversion of CO₂ to formate accepted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (to paper). Motiar joins St John's College as a research associate.

Erwin's paper on selective oxidation of biomass to formate coupled to the reduction of CO₂ to syngas accepted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (to paper). Constantin's paper on flow photocatalysis for CO₂ reduction accepted in ACS Catal. (to paper).

Arjun stated his Leverhume postdoctoral fellowship. Christian's paper on two-step polyethylene recycling accepted in ACS Catal. (to paper). Gabriele joins the group as a visiting researcher who will be working on the SOFIA project together with Santiago and Shannon.

Yongpeng Liu from EPFL has been awarded a SNSF postdoc fellowship and will join us in Jan 2022. Sam receives a 3-year Leverhulme fellowship. Tengfei receives Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship.

We are in the RSC Emerging Technologies Competition 2021 final with our photoreforming project (link). Agnieska and Shannon joined as postdocs. Marion joined as midi/PhD student from the nanoDTC. Constantin's paper on imidazolium-modified ZnSe QDs for CO₂ reduction accepted in Chem. Sci. (to paper).

Esther and Constantin successfully defended their PhD viva. Domenico joined the group as visiting master student (ETHZ).

Demelza successfully defended her PhD viva. Check out our new promotional video on photoreforming (link). Santiago and Carla's contribution on roadmap towards solar fuel synthesis at the water interface of liposome membranes published in Chem. Soc. Rev. (to paper).

Lin joins the group as a postdoc. Demelza's nanogap spectro-electrochemistry paper published in Nat. Catal. (to paper). Arjun's photo C-O bond formation with carbon nitrides accepted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (to paper). Daniel and Taylor successfully defended their PhD viva.

Souvik's paper on Si/TiO₂/CoPcP for CO₂ reduction accepted in ACS Catal. (to paper). Qian's TEDx Talk on "How mimicking photosynthesis can be the future of clean energy" is now available online (link). Reisner lab received ERC Proof of Concept Grant for "SolReGen" project funded, which aims at coupling photoreforming process with a benign enzymatic waste pre-treatment process. (more info).

Chanon and Virgil's paper on uninterrupted solar and electrocatalytic water splitting accepted in Adv. Funct. Mater. (to paper). Motiar started his Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship. Virgil received the 2020 Sheelagh Campbell Award (more info).

Taylor's paper on scalable photocatalyst panel for photoreforming accepted in ChemSusChem. (to paper). Taylor's review on solar-driven reforming of solid waste for a sustainable future published in Nat. Sustain. (to review).

Virgil started his Title A Research Fellowship at St. John's and Carla started her Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship.

Daniel's paper on PEC water oxidation with an organic dye-based dyad accepted in Chem. Sci. (to paper). Andi and Constantin's review on categorising local chemical environment effects in CO₂ reduction published in Nat. Catal. (to paper).

Virgil successfully defended his PhD viva. Motiar's paper on selective CO₂ reduction using a Cu₉₆In₄ alloy in tandem PEC accepted in Energy Environ. Sci. (to paper). Qian's paper on CO₂ reducing photocatalyst sheets published in Nat. Energy (to paper). Qian's work on CO₂ photocatalyst sheets highlighted in The Times (to article). Stuart joins the group as a postdoc.

Demetra's photoreforming of biomass with carbon dots accepted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (to paper). Shafeer started new position at Northumbria University, UK as a Senior Lecturer and Vice Chancellor's Fellow.

Erwin and Taylor shared our research in Plastic Photoreforming in the recent University of Cambridge film titled "Plastic:the new fantastic?" (to video). Xin and Shafeer's review on semi-biological solar-to-chemical conversion accepted in Chem. Soc. Rev. (to paper). Julien's review on synthetic organic design for solar fuel systems accepted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (to paper). Will's paper on FDH mechanism accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper).

Andi successfully defended his PhD viva. Christian's paper on photoreforming in metal salt hydrate solution accepted in Chem. Comm. (to paper). Collaborative work with Andrew Wheatley's group and Andi's contribution on O₂ reduction catalysis published in Adv. Func. Mater. (to paper). Taylor's paper on photoreforming of food waste into value-added products accepted in Green Chem. (to paper).

We are in a temporarily shut down due to COVID-19 until further notice. We have donated all of our lab's PPE to a local hospital to help fight the virus. Demetra's paper on pollutant utilisation for H₂ production with cellulose-derived carbon dots accepted in Green Chem. (to paper). Mark's paper on hybrid electrolyser for alcohol oxidation coupled to CO₂‐to‐syngas conversion accepted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (to paper). Julien joined Technical University Munich as a Junior Group Leader. Shafeer will join Northumbria University, UK as a Senior Lecturer and Vice Chancellor's Fellow.

Mark successfully defended his PhD viva. Erwin Lam joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow, Maartje van Rijn as an Erasmus student and Beth Wilson as an administrator to Reisner Group. Our research on artificial leaf is featured on CGTN Europe (to video).

Shafeer and Xin's biohybrid electrode is accepted in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (to paper). Nina and Nick's paper on EET pathways in Geobacter is accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper).

Mark's flow photocatalysis for aerobic substrate oxidations is accepted in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (to paper). Our research on plastic photoreformation is highlighted in Horizon (to magazine). Virgil receives Junior Research Fellowship at St. John's College. Santiago and Carla receives Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship. Erwin Lam awarded Swiss SNSF Postdoctoral Fellowship and will join us in March. Stuart Linley receives Canadian NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship and will join us in June. Azim Dharani receives Churchill Scholarship and will join us in October (to news).

Esther's paper on hydrogenase-PVK tandem PEC cell is accepted in ACS Energy Lett. (to paper). Jenny's PSII PEC review published in Nat. Rev. Chem. (to paper). Our annual Christmas dinner photos are uploaded (to album).

Arjun's paper on 'Minisci reaction coupled to H₂ generation' is accepted in Chem.Comm. (to paper). Andi and Khoa's work on 'Cucurbit[6]uril on a Au surface for CO₂ reduction.' accepted in ACS Catal. (to paper). Tengfei Li joins as a postdoc.

Virgil's paper on 'solar PEC syngas production' is accepted in Nat. Mater. (to paper). Kasia and Will's work on 'semi-artificial FHL mimic' accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper). Sam Cobb joins as a postdoc, Subhajit and Rodrigo as PhD students, Rachel Egan as co-supervised MPhil student, and Daniel and Victor as Part III students.

Xin defended his PhD viva. Charlie’s paper on inverse opal CuCrO₂ accepted in ACS Catal. (to paper). Work using Kasia's IO-ITO to study thiosulfate dehydrogenase in collaboration with UEA accepted in J. Biol. Chem.  (to paper). Carla Casadevall joins the group as a postdoc. Rodrigo Castro-Ramírez receives CONACYT Cambridge Trust PhD scholarship and will join us in October.

Taylor's paper on 'Photoreforming of Non-Recyclable Plastic Waste over a Carbon Nitride/Nickel Phosphide Catalyst' accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper). Teresa Augustin joined us as a summer intern student working with Shafeer.

Christian awarded Erwin Schrödinger fellowship. Souvik's paper on CO₂ reduction using carbon nitride and a polymeric cobalt phthalocyanine catalyst accepted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (to paper).

David Wakerley awarded Lindemann Trust postdoc fellowship for his work at Stanford. Work of Taylor and Julien highlighted in Cam@Cam (to issue). Santiago Rodriguez-Jimenez joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow.

Nick's paper on "Advancing techniques for investigating the enzyme-electrode interface" published in Acc. Chem. Res. (to paper). Christian Pichler joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Charlie successfully defends his PhD on delafossite CuCrO₂ photocathodes. Constantin receives Kurt Hahn Award. EU ITN project on 'solar2chemicals' funded.

Motiar Rahaman and Florian Dorchies join the group as postdoctoral fellow and visiting Master's student respectively. Jane and Julien's paper on aqueous CO₂ with a cobalt bis(terpyridine)-based photocathode published in Nat. Catal. (to paper) and their work with Julian, embedding the catalyst in a polymer matrix, published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (to paper). Subhajit Bhattacharjee awarded HRH The Prince of Wales Commonwealth Scholarship and Trinity Henry Barlow Award and he will join us in October. Taylor receives CSAR Student Award. Andi gives Gamechangers talk (to talk).

Motiar receives Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship. Group receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust as part of a collaboration with Tijmen Euser (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge) on "Optofluidic microreactors for advanced photocatalysis" and Maxie Roessler (Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London) on "Film-electrochemical EPR: a new method to investigate redox-based catalysis". Faraday Discussions on Artificial Photosynthesis, Doppler Symposium and 7th UK Solar Fuels Network meeting took place in Cambridge. Kasia won Chemical Science talk prize at SFN symposium.

Melanie's paper on CO₂ reduction using FDH published as a hot paper in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (to paper). Moritz's, Charlie's and Constantin's paper on ZnSe nanorods accepted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (to paper). Kristian's and Julien's review on on first row transition metal complexes for solar fuel synthesis published in Chem. Rev. (to paper).

Xin's paper is accepted in Nano Lett. (to paper) and Erwin publishes a guest editorial in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (to paper). Cambridge Centre for Circular Economy Approaches to Eliminate Plastic Waste launched (to news and to website).

Motiar Rahaman receives postdoctoral fellowship from Swiss National Science Foundation and will join us in April. Kasia defends her PhD thesis on 'Photoelectrochemical tandem cells with enzymes wired to hierarchically-structured electrodes for solar fuel synthesis'. Julien's and Janina's paper on PMI dyes for solar fuel production published in Chem. Sci. (to paper).

EU FET project on ’soap-film based artificial photosynthesis’ funded. Hatice defends her PhD thesis on 'Carbon nitride for solar H₂ production coupled to organic chemical transformations'. Kasia's paper on CO₂ reduction using a semi-artifical Z-scheme architecture published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper).

Annika joins as Leopoldina postdoctoral fellow, Ava, Vivek and Chanon as PhD students, Rebecca as an Erasmus student and Hui Min as Part III student. Georgina awarded the 2017 Outstanding PhD Thesis Award and Janina the Commended PhD Thesis Award from our department. Andi receives award for 'best talk' and Esther 'runner-up poster prize' at Materials Showcase day in our department. Jane succesfully defends her PhD thesis on 'Molecular Hybrid Photocathodes Based on Silicon for Solar Fuel Synthesis'. Project on microbial photocatalysis in collaboration with the groups of Julea Butt and Lars Jeuken funded by BBSRC.

Qian joins group as Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow. Nick's paper on 'rotating ring disk electrochemistry with Photosystem II' accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper). Virgil's collaborative paper with Dominic Wright and Seb Pike accepted in Adv. Mater. (to paper). Kasia's paper on 'bias-free water splitting with enzyme-powered PEC cell' published in Nature Energy (to paper). Nick's review on 'semi-artificial photosynthesis' published in Nature Nanotechnology (to paper).

Taylor's paper on 'photoreforming of waste plastics' published in Energy Environ. Sci. (to paper). Hatice and Demetra's paper on 'photoreforming of biomass with carbon-nitride' accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper).

Annika Eisenschmidt receives postdoc fellowship from the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) and she will join us in October. Chanon Pornrungroj receives PhD scholarships from the Cambridge Trust and Trinity College (Henry Barlow Scholarship) and will also join us in October.

Dong's paper on 'tandem PEC cells with hydrogenase' published in Angew. Chem. (to paper). Hatice's paper on 'interfacial engineering of carbon nitride with graphene oxide' published in ACS Catalysis (to paper). Group recieves funding from the BBSRC on collaborative project with the groups of Julea Butt (UEA) and Lars Jeuken (Leeds) on topic 'Biohybrids for Solar Chemicals and Fuels: Whole-cell Photocatalysis by Non-photosynthetic Organisms'.

Virgil's paper on a tandem perovskite water splitting cell accepted in Adv. Energy Mater. (to paper). Nick's paper on an 'operando cycle' optimised catalyst accepted in Chem. Sci. (to paper) and selected as pick of the week (to news). David's and Tim's papers both accepted in Chem. Eur. J. for the upcoming special issue on Renewable Energy (to paper and to paper). Erwin awarded 2018 RSC Corday-Morgan Prize (link). Will takes up a postdoc position with Will Huck at Nijmegen University.

Nick appointed as Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal (he will take up his new post in January 2019). Helen and Hamish submit their Part III thesis. Filming in our labs for the CNBC programme 'Sustainable Energy'.

Souvik Roy starts as a postdoc in our group. Charlie and Virgil win best talk and runner-up poster prize respectively at the 6^th SFN Symposium at the University of York.

Geani Ukoski starts as a postdoc in our group. Ava Lage receives EPSRC DTA scholarship and she will join us for her PhD studies in October.

International patent (PCT/EP2017/080371) on biomass photoreforming filed. Shafeer Kalathil joins the group as a Post Doc. Constantin's and Moritz's paper on CO₂ reduction using ZnSe quantum dots with molecular catalysts is accepted in Chem. Sci. (to paper). Erwin joins editorial board of Angewandte Chemie. Qian Wang was awarded with Marie Curie fellowship and will join us in Summer. Jenny awarded BBSRC David Philip's fellowship to start her independent group in Cambridge (read article).

Moritz's review on biomas photoreforming accepted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (to paper).

Charlie's paper on Delafossite photocathodes is accepted in Chem. Sci. (to paper). Moritz starts his lectureship at Swansea University and Kasia receives a Poster Award at MRS meeting in Boston. Janina's review on photocatalysis with cobalt complexes accepted in Bull. Jpn Soc. Coord. Chem..

Jane wins runner-up prize at BP day. Demelza Wright and Taylor Uekert start their PhD. Julian Vigil joins as a Masters student, and Hamish Lamotte and Helen Huang join as Part III students.

Sarah L. defends her MPhil thesis on 'Photosystem II photoelectrochemistry' and starts as PhD student at College de France. Ana Rita Oliveira visits our laboratory from Lisbon, Portugal. Geani Ucoski receives a CNPq postdoctoral fellowship and will join us from Brazil early next year. Jenny's paper on "photoelectrochemistry with cyanobacteria" published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper). Bertrand and Khoa's paper on "tunable product selectivity with an immobilised Mn catalyst" published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper). Katherine's paper on "TiO₂-catechol hybrids" accepted in Chem. Commun. (to paper). Collaborative paper with the Jeuken and Butt groups on photo-catalysis by non-photosynthetic mircoorganisms" published in ACS Catalysis (to paper).

Dave's and Moritz's biomass photoreforming work featured in Astana Expo2017 under the theme of Future Energy.

Jane wins 'ISF-2 Best of the Young Presentation' and Jenny wins 'Best Poster in Chemical and Biological Approaches' at ISF-2 Young in San Diego.

Both of our Part III students (Tim and Satowa) graduate with 1st class degrees. Erwin promoted to Professor. Will's paper in collaboration with Judy Hirst's group on 'FDH mechanism' accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper).

Janina, Georgina and Will  defend their PhD theses on 'semiconductor immobilised Co catalysts', 'carbon nanodot photocatalysis' and 'formate dehydrogenase electrochemistry', respectively. Nina Heidary joins the group as a postdoc. Demelza Wright and Taylor Uekert join the group as nanoDTC midi-students. Kasia wins the 2nd prize in the Natural & Life Sciences category at the ABTA 2017 Doctoral Researcher Awards. Jane and Julien's paper on 'molecular Si photocathode' accepted in Chem. Sci. (to paper). Georgina and Ben's 'carbon nanodot' review accepted in Chem. Soc. Rev. Moritz and Katherine's paper on 'CdS-catalyst hybrid for CO₂ reduction' accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper).

Esther Moore and Melanie Miller join the group as PhD students. Ben's paper on 'N-doped carbon dots' accepted in Angew. Chem. (to paper). Micaela's review on 'electrode protection' accepted in Energy Environ. Sci. (to paper). Collaborative paper with the Jeuken and Butt groups and Katherine's contribution on 'nanoparticle: cytochrome photoanodes' accepted in ChemElectroChem (to paper). Erwin receives International Award for Creative Chemistry from Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry. Georgina wins 1st poster prize at the 'Materials for Solar Energy Conversion' meeting in London.

David and Moritz' work on 'photoreforming of biomass' patented and published in Nature Energy (to paper). A movie highlight about the biomass work by Reuters appears online (to movie). Tim's perspective on 'spectroscopy of immobilised fuel-forming catalysts' accepted in ACS Catalysis (to paper).

Julien and Janina's paper on 'organic dye-sensitised semiconductor photocatalysis' accepted in Chem. Sci. (to paper). Bertrand's paper on 'H₂O₂ Reduction with a Decaheme Cytochrom" accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper).

Constantin rejoins the group as a PhD student. Julian Vigil receives Churchill scholarship. Souvik Roy and Shafeer Kalathil receive Marie Curie Fellowships. Moritz wins prize for best talk at 5th UK Solar Fuels Network symposium in Newcastle. Erwin becomes new director of UK Solar Fuels Network (link).

Nick appointed as Research Associate at Corpus Christi College. Virgil wins prize for the best peer-to-peer presentation in the Department of Chemistry. Collaborative paper on 'photocatalysis with TiO₂ as reversible electron acceptor' with Leif Hammarström's group and Chris' contribution accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper).

David and Tim defend their PhD theses on 'O₂-tolerant and biomass photocatalysis' and 'molecule-driven PEC cells', respectively. Tim will start as a JSPS postdoc fellow at the University of Tokyo and David postdoc at College de France in Paris soon. Jane and Hatice win runner-up prizes for their talks at the BP Day in the Department of Chemistry. Andreas receives Cambridge nanoDTC associate award. Georgina's paper on 'carbon dot-enzyme photocatalysis' accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper). Hatice's collaborative paper with the Lotsch and Jeschke groups on 'dark photocatalysis' accepted in Angew. Chem. as VIP paper (to paper).

Ben defends his PhD thesis on 'carbon nanodots for photo-H₂ generation' and will start as a postdoc at Harvard University soon. Mark receives Endeavour Scholarship from the Maltese Ministry for Education, co-financed by the EU. Karol joins the group as a postdoc, Virgil Andrei, Arjun Vijeta and Daniel Anton Garcia as PhD students, Sarah Lamaison as MPhil student, Franziska Nousch and Dominik Wielend as Erasmus students, and Satowa Kinoshita and Tim Boyd as Part III students. We receive new laboratory and office space for our work on photocatalysis.

Nick Kornienko receives a Royal Society Newton postdoctoral Fellowship and joins the group. Collaborative paper with the Butt and Jeuken groups and Tsubasa's contribution on 'photo-reduction of Extracellular Cytochromes from Shewanella oneidensis' accepted in ChemBioChem (to paper).

Jenny's paper on 'new electron-transfer pathways in Photosystem II' accepted in Nature Chem. Biol. (to paper).

Jamues defends his MPhil thesis on 'dye-sensitised semiconductor photocatalysis'. Christian Doppler Lectures take place in Cambridge. Kasia's paper on 'benchmark PSII photoelectrode' accepted in Energy Environ. Sci. (to paper). Micaela's paper on 'photo-H2 production with perovskite electrode' accepted in Nature Commun. (to paper).

Tim wins the poster prize at the 'Pathways to Solar Hydrogen Technology' conference in Leiden. Tom awarded 'Johnson Matthey Prize' for best Part III project in Inorganic Chemistry. Cambridge Contemporary Dance releases a video inspired by the group's research, which was premiered alongside Erwin's Pint of Science talk - here. Doppler Lab highlighted by OMV's CEO Rainer Seele - here. Tarek's paper on 'noble-free CGIS photo-H₂" accepted in Catal. Sci. Technol. (to paper). Ben's paper on 'stable carbon dot photocatalysis via donor recycling' accepted in Angew. Chem. (to paper). Hatice's paper on 'simultaneous solar fuel and chemical synthesis' accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper).

Manuela defends her PhD thesis on 'photo-H₂ generation with a phosphonated Ni bis(diphosphine) catalyst'. Virgil Andrei (Vice-Chancellor Award and honorary Winton scholar), Arjun Vijeta (Ramanujan Award) and Daniel Anton Garcia (DTA award) receive PhD scholarships and will join us in autumn. Lee and Bertrand's paper on 'electrochemistry with protein-enzyme assembly' accepted in Chem. Commun. (to paper). Manuela's paper on 'molecular photocathode' accepted in Chem. Sci. (to paper).

Andreas Wagner arrives as a PhD student. Georgina and Ben win the poster prize at the 'Polymer Photocatalysts for Solar Fuels Synthesis' workshop at University College London (to website announcement). Kasia wins best poster prize at '79th Harden Conference on Oxygen Evolution and Reduction'. LEGO movie on artificial photosynthesis made by David and Chris released on youtube (watch here).

Jesper Jacobsson arrives as a postdoc and Constantin Sahm as an MSc student. Kasia, Micaela and Jamues win second place in the EPSRC photo competition (category 'Equipment') for their picture of electro-deposited TiO₂ (also featured on The Guardian's website - here). The group is featured in a number of videos produced by OMV. More about the life and work of the following members can be found here: David, Georgina & Manuela, Moritz, and Jenny & Ben. Lee's paper on 'PEC H₂ generation with immobilised hydrogenase on Si' accepted in Angew. Chem. (to paper). Tim and Chris' paper on 'immobilised Mn catalyst for CO₂ reduction' accepted in Angew. Chem. (to paper).

Khoa Ly receives a Marie Sklodowska Curie postdoctoral Fellowship and joins the group. Karol Fijałkowski receives Mobility Plus postdoctoral Fellowship from Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and will join us in autumn. Yi-Hsuan starts as Assistant Professor at National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan. Tim's paper on 'molecular PEC cell' accepted in Chem. Sci. (to paper).

Chan Beum Park joins the group as visiting Professor from KAIST, Demetra Achilleos and Dong Nam as postdocs and Mark Bajada as a PhD student. We hosted the Solar Fuels Network meeting in Cambridge and more information can be found here: flyer and article. Katherine wins prize for best talk and Tim the poster prize at this meeting. Bertrand and Julien's paper on 'H₂ evolving buckypaper' accepted in Angew. Chem. (to paper).

Nick defends his PhD thesis on the 'photophysics of Photosystem II-nanoparticle interfaces' and is on his way to Heidelberg for postdoctoral research. Project on "semi-artificial photosynthesis" funded by an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant - more information - here.

Janina's review on 'dye-sensitised photocatalysis' accepted in Chem. Soc. Rev. (to paper). Ben's paper on 'regenerating bi-functional iron electrodes' accepted in Adv. Energy Mater. (to paper).

Sarah Karmel and Kristian Dalle join the group as postdoctoral scientists, Xin Fang as PhD student, Jamues Ng as MChem student, Anja Schlosser as Erasmus student, and Thomas Sayer and Willem Zwetsloot as Part III students. Claire and Christine's review on '[NiFeSe]-hydrogenase chemistry' accepted in Acc. Chem. Res. (to paper). Yi-Hsuan's paper on 'tandem PEC water splitting' accepted in Adv. Energy Mater. (to paper). David wins prize for best presentation and Janina runner-up poster prize at the BP Day in the Department of Chemistry.

We hosted 'Christian Doppler Symposium on Solar Fuels' in Cambridge. Pictures can be found - here. Tarek Kandiel joins the group as a postdoctoral visitor.

David P. defends his MSc thesis on 'PEC water splitting devices' and is on his way to Stanford University for PhD studies.

Dirk defends his PhD thesis on 'Enzyme-based PEC water splitting'. Katarzyna wins poster prize at 'SFN Early Careers’ Researchers Symposium' in London. Moritz and David's paper on 'switchable formic acid photo-conversion to H₂ or CO' accepted in Angew. Chem. (to paper).

Yi-Hsuan defends her PhD thesis on 'Nanocomposite Materials for Water Splitting from Single Source Precursor Chemistry'. Xin Fang awarded CSC Cambridge International PhD Scholarship (he will join us in autumn 2015 from Fudan University, China). Jamues Ng awarded Singaporean Ministry of Education MSc scholarship (he will join us in autumn 2015 from Imperial College London). Lee appointed as Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow at University of Wollongong, Australia. Erwin promoted to University Reader. Dirk's paper on 'enzyme-PEC' cell accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper). Christina and Katherine's paper on 'stripped quantum dots' accepted in special issue of J. Mat. Chem. A (to paper). Christine's paper on an 'enzyme-modified carbon nitride-TiO₂ hybrid' accepted in Chem. Sci. (to paper). Chris' review on 'heterogenised CO₂ reduction catalysts' accepted in special issue of Chimia (to paper). Group participates in Cambridge i-teams initiative to explore possibilities of employing our technologies in developing countries. Two molecular H₂ production catalysts developed in our group are now commercially available via Strem Chemicals.

David's perspective on 'O₂-tolerant proton reduction catalysis' accepted in Energy Environ. Sci. (to paper). Collaborative paper with the Durrant group and Manuela's contribution on 'understanding pH dependent photocatalysis' accepted in Chem. Sci. (to paper). Our laboratory and work featured in science & technology TV show 'Newton' (ORF 1; to outreach). This documentary was produced by West4Media (to website) and received the Silver award at the 2015 World Media Festival in Hamburg, Germany. This triggered more filming and the filming crew has just returned to our laboratory to produce four short movies about the life of different group members.

Isabell Sarah Karmel awarded Blavatnik postdoctoral fellowship (she will join us in autumn 2015 from the Technion, Israel). Charles Creissen joins the group for his nanoDTC midi-project and he will also stay for his PhD. Ben & Georgina's paper on 'carbon-dot photosensitisers in photo-H₂ production' accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. and highlighted in JACS Spotlights (to paper).

Hyun appointed as Senior Research Scientist at Korea Institute of Science & Technology (KIST), Seoul, South Korea. Our exhibition on 'Clean Energy' presented at Cambridge Science Festival (to outreach). Katarzyna receives Cambridge nanoDTC associate studentship.

Claire's 'hot' paper on 'synthetic [NiFeSe]-hydrogenase model' accepted in Chem. Eur. J. (to paper) and highlighted as the inside front cover and in Chemistry Views (to highlight). Collaborative 'very important' paper with the groups of Lars Jeuken, Julea Butt and Tadafumi Adschiri on "a decaheme electron conduit" accepted in Adv. Funct. Mater. (to paper). Manuela receives Paul Barbara Fellowship (to information). We team up with artist Marina Velez and present a visual installation of our work during the E-luminate festival in Cambridge (to outreach).

Bertrand Reuillard joins the group. Janina's paper on a 'rationally designed Co catalyst for immobilisation' accepted in Chem. Sci. and featured on the front cover (to paper). Erwin discusses group's research during a 'Science Talk' on TV (to outreach).

Claire defends her PhD thesis on 'Synthetic models of the active site of [NiFeSe]-hydrogenases'. Chris Windle's paper on 'photocatalytic CO₂ reduction with an immobilised Re catalyst on TiO₂' accepted in Chem Eur. J. (to paper). Yi-Hsuan's and Hyun's paper on the 'protection and activation of a silicon photoelectrode for H₂ evolution with single-source precursor chemistry' accepted in Chem Eur. J. (to paper).

David's paper on 'O2 and CO inhibition of molecular catalysts' accepted in Chem. Commun. (to paper). Erwin gives presentation at the International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook 2014 in Vienna (to paper)

Micaela Crespo Quesada, Julien Warnan (postdoctoral researchers), Jane Leung, Katarzyna Sokol, Hatice Kasap (PhD students) and David Palm (MPhil student) join the group. Chris' paper on 'reversible electrocatalysis with a Mo-containing formate dehydrogenase' in collaboration with Judy Hirst's group accepted in J. Am. Chem. (to paper ).

Group visits OMV oil up- and down-stream facilities in Vienna and Linz (to photos). Hyun's paper on a 'H₂ evolving CuO|CuBi₂O₄ heterojunction photocathode' published in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (to paper). Collaborative paper with James Durrant's group on 'distance dependent electron transfer kinetics in semiconductor-catalyst hybrids' published in Chem. Commun. (to paper).

Christine's paper on 'photo-H₂ generation with hydrogenase and synthetic catalyst modified carbon nitride' accepted in Angew. Chem. (to paper). Chia-Yu's paper on a 'microstructured cobalt sulfide cathode in PEC water splitting' accepted in Chem. Sci. (to paper).

Christina defends her MPhil thesis and is on her way to Harvard University for her PhD studies. Ahu's collaborative paper on 'color in nanocrystalline cellulose films' accepted in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (to paper).

Yi-Hsuan's paper on 'comparison of Photosystem II with semiconductor electrodes' accepted in Faraday Discussions (to paper).

Nick wins runner up award for his talk at the BP Day in the Department of Chemistry. Erwin awarded 2014 RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize (link). Collaborative paper with Jeremy Baumberg's group on 'Plasmonic Effect in BiVO₄ Photonic Crystals for Water Splitting' accepted in Small (to paper).

Fezile defends her PhD thesis on "photocatalytic H₂ generation with cobaloximes immobilised on dye-sensitised semiconductors".

Austrian delegation including the CEO of OMV Group (Gerhard Roiss), the Austrian Federal Minister of Science, Research and Economy (Reinhold Mitterlehner) and Christoph Dichand (Editor-in-Chief of Kronen Zeitung) visited our laboratory. Three days of filming for a documentary on our work. 2014 Christian Doppler Lectures in Cambridge (to Doppler). Review on 'photoelectrochemistry of Photosystem II' accepted in Chem. Soc. Rev. (to paper).

Masaru appointed as Assistant Professor at Hokkaido University (Japan). Christine accepts offer for Assistant Professorship at the University of New Hampshire (USA), where she will start in Summer 2015. Erwin recipient of 2014 RSC Bioinorganic Group (IBDG) Young Investigator Award (link). Katherine and Ahu receive NanoForum Fellowships. Two-year evaluation of our Christian Doppler Laboratory takes place in Cambridge. Collaborative paper with Jeremy Baumberg's group on 'Inverse opal AZO-BiVO4 hybrid electrodes for solar water oxidation' appears in Energy Environ. Sci. (to paper). Our first outreach video about our research and laboratory appears online (link).

David Palm (University of Pittsburgh) awarded Churchill MPhil scholarship (he will join us in October 2014 - link). David Wakerley's paper on 'Electrochemical Molecular Catalyst Screening' accepted in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (to paper). The group receives new lab space for Materials Chemistry. Group joins COST Action TD1102 (PHOTOTECH). Group part of two 10-year Centres for Doctoral Training funded by EPSRC (Functional and Sustainable Nano & Graphene Technology).

Manuela's paper on a 'versatile photocatalytic system for H2 generation' accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper). Claire's paper on 'Ni Site Models of [NiFeSe]-hydrogenases' accepted as 'hot paper' in Dalton Trans. ('Europe: New Talents' issue, to paper). Erwin recipient of 2014 Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize from Swiss Chemical Society (link).

Christine, Chong-Yong and Micaela Crespo (she will join us from EPFL, Switzerland in autumn 2014) awarded Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowships.

Jane Leung awarded Woolf Fisher PhD Scholarship and she will join us from Auckland, New Zealand in October 2014. Christina Chang joins the group as a Marshall scholar from Princeton for her MPhil studies. Tom Stubbs joins group for his 3-months BBSRC rotation project. Group joins COST Action CM1202 (PERSPECT-H2O).

We hosted RSC ISACS12 - Challenges in Renewable Chemical Energy conference, a post graduate symposium and the Christian Doppler Workshop in Cambridge. Manuela wins 1st place for her talk and Jenny the 1st poster prize at the postgraduate symposium. Ahu receives runner-up price for her poster at ISACS12. Tsubasa's paper on 'an oxygen-robust photocatalytic hydrogenase system' accepted as 'hot paper' in Angewandte Chemie (to paper).

Inger Lomax joins the group as administrator and PA to Erwin. Nicoleta's paper in collaboration with the group of Ulli Steiner on 'RYB electrochromism with a cobaloxime' accepted in ChemComm and featured on front cover (to paper).

Masaru's paper on 'controlled immobilisation of photosystem II on a nanostructured electrode' accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper). Yi-Hsuan's paper on 'one-step assembly of a hybrid photoanode from a molecular precursor' accepted in Chem. Eur. J. (to paper).

Chia-Yu accepts position as Assistant Professor at National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan. Chris W joins the group as an EPSRC postdoctoral research fellow (doctoral prize winner). Collaborative paper on 'electron transfer dynamics with cobaloximes on semiconductors' with James Durrant's group and Fezile's and Manuela's contribution published in Energy Environ. Sci. and featured on front cover (to paper).

Hyun joins the group as a Doppler postdoctoral research associate. Janina appointed as a Kurt Hahn Scholar. William Robinson joins the group for his nanoDTC midi-project (he will also stay for his PhD).

Georgina joins the group as a Poynton PhD student. Fezile wins runner-up award for her presentation at the BP day in the Department of Chemistry.

Janina joins the group as a Doppler PhD student and Jenny arrives as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow. Moritz awarded postdoctoral fellowship by the Isaac Newton Trust (Trinity College, Cambridge) and the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Group receives Royal Society seed-corn grant for work on "Ordered Cellulose Aerogels".

Our first open access article appears online. We will make more papers freely available soon.

Jenny Zhang (University of Sydney) awarded Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship and she will join us in March 2013. Group starts collaboration with WPI-AIMR in Japan and Katherine Orchard arrives in our group as a WPI-Cambridge postdoctoral research associate. Joint project with Julea Butt (UEA, UK) and Lars Jeuken (Leeds, UK) on "Advancing Biotechnologies for Fuel Generation" funded by BBSRC.

Christopher Madden joins the group as a BBSRC postdoctoral researcher on a joint project with Judy Hirst (MRC MBU, Cambridge). Nicoleta's paper on an 'electrode-immobilised molecular Co catalyst' accepted in Angewandte Chemie (to paper). Erwin joins the Editorial Advisory Board of ChemComm.

We welcome our incoming PhD students Ben Martindale, Tim Rosser, Dave Wakerley and Part III student Laurence Taylor. Group receives EPSRC pump-priming grant to start work on novel photocatalytic reactions.

Moritz awarded Schering award for best PhD dissertation at a Berlin university in the field of Chemistry. Manuela receives award for her Diploma thesis from the Austrian Chemical Society. Christine Caputo arrives and starts her work as a postdoc in the Doppler laboratory.

Christopher Windle awarded EPSRC Doctoral Prize (allowing him to work in our group in 2013/14). Moritz Kuehnel starts his work as postdoctoral research associate. Bettina Basel visits us from Erlangen, Germany, and starts her Summer internship. Group attends Olympic Games in London. Yi-Hsuan's paper on the assembly of 'efficient CoOx water oxidation electrocatalysts from nanocages' in collaboration with Dom Wright's group accepted in ChemComm (to paper). Chia-Yu's paper on a 'Cu2O/NiOx nanocomposite electrode' accepted in Chem. Sci. (to paper)

Fezile and Masaru's paper on 'selective reduction of aqueous protons with a cobaloxime catalyst under atmospheric oxygen' accepted in Angewandte Chemie as 'Hot paper' (to paper), featured on the journal cover and in the news: here. Fezile's collaborative paper with the Durrant group at Imperial College London on 'electron transfer in catalyst-modified semiconductors' accepted in Chem. Eur. J. (to paper). Collaborative paper on 'highest nuclearity polyoxotitantates' lead by Dom Wright's group and Janina's contribution published in Chem. Eur. J. (to paper)

Georgina Hutton awarded with a Cambridge Australia Poynton PhD scholarship. Georgina will join us from the University of Sydney in April next year.

Masaru's paper on 'photoelectrochemical water oxidation with photosystem II on a mesoporous ITO electrode' appears in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (to paper). Collaborative paper on 'encapsulated bromide in a polyoxotitanate host' with Dom Wright's group and Janina's contribution published in Chem. Sci. (to paper) and highlighted in Chemistry World (to article).

Start and Inauguration of Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable Syngas Chemistry. Manuela Gross arrives from Vienna and joins the group as the first Doppler PhD student. Doppler laboratory is featured the news: here (in English). Group receives 'New Directions for EPSRC Research Leaders' grant.