Prof. Dr. Dominik Eder received his doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, in 2003. He then went to the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2005 as an Erwin Schrödinger Research Fellow from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). In 2006, he received an APART Advanced Research Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which he used to set up his group in Cambridge. In 2011, he accepted a position as Junior Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Münster, Germany. In 2015, he became a full professor of materials chemistry at the Institute of Materials Chemistry (IMC) at the TU Vienna. He is currently head of the “Molecular Materials Chemistry” department at the IMC of TU Vienna. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2018 and Changjiang Scholar in 2023.

His expertise combines in-depth fundamental studies on reaction mechanisms, interfacial charge/energy transfer processes and transport processes on model systems using a wide range of state-of-the-art ex-situ and in-situ techniques with applied research focussing on light-matter interactions, including photocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry and photovoltaics.

Prof. Eder’s contributions to the realm of nanocarbon-inorganic hybrid materials have been pioneering, as his experience with interface and pore engineering.