Feodor Lynen fellow Domink Halter joins research group of Jeffrey Long

July 13, 2018

For immediate release
Berkeley, CA

Dominik HalterDr. Dominik Halter has been awarded a Feodor Lynen fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,  to join the chemistry research group of Professor Jeffrey Long as a postdoctoral researcher. Halter’s research at Berkeley will focus on the development of new metal-organic frameworks with coordinatively unsaturated metal sites for hydrogen storage and catalysis.

Halter was awarded his Ph.D. in chemistry by the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuernberg, where he investigatied the electrocatalytic production of hydrogen with uranium and lanthanide-based catalysts in the research group of Professor Karsten Meyer. Earlier this year, Halter spent three months at the University of Sussex to study the redox chemistry and catalytic application of organometallic thorium complexes together with Professor Geoffrey Cloke.

The Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation, with offices in Berlin and Bonn, Germany, sponsors the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship. The intention of this fellowship is to promote scientific collaboration between universities around the world and German junior scientists.


About the Long Research Group

Research in the Long group focuses on the design and controlled synthesis of novel inorganic materials and molecules toward the fundamental understanding of new physical phenomena, with applications in gas storage, molecular separations, conductivity, catalysis, and magnetism. We employ a range of physical methods to analyze and characterize our materials comprehensively, including by gas adsorption analysis, X-ray and neutron diffraction, various spectroscopic techniques, and SQUID magnetometry. A full list of publications is available here