Magdalena Titirici

Magdalena (Magda) Titirici is a Professor of Sustainable Energy Materials at Imperial College London.

Magdalena Titirici
Alma materJohannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

University of Dortmund

University of Bucharest
AwardsCorday-Morgan Prize
IOM3 Rosenhain Medal
Scientific career
FieldsSustainable Chemistry
InstitutionsQueen Mary University of London
Imperial College London
Websitehttps://www.titiricigroup.com/

Early life and education

Titirici was born in Bucharest, where she studied chemistry at the University of Bucharest and graduated in 1999.[1][2] She earned her PhD at the Technical University of Dortmund in 2005, working on molecularly imprinted polymers for her postgraduate studies.[3][4][5] Titirici also worked at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz during her postgraduate studies.[2] She then completed her postdoctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, where she then took on the job of group leader. She also received her habilitation in 2013 at the same university.[2][6] Titirici joined Queen Mary University of London in 2013 as a Reader, before being promoted to Professor in 2014.[2][7] In 2019 she moved to the Chemical Engineering Department of Imperial College London, leading a multidisciplinary and diverse research group in the field of Sustainable Energy Materials.[2][6] She has been named Royal Academy of Engineering’s Chair of Sustainable Energy Materials for Emerging Technologies, and will be funded over 10 years to develop renewable energy technologies. [8]

Research

Her group uses biomass and hydrothermal processes to create carbon products.[9] She is interested in how these carbon nanomaterials produced by hydrothermal carbonisation (HTC) can be used in electrocatalytical reactions, including oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution.[10] They also work on electrodes for energy storage in lithium and sodium ion batteries.[2] She leads a large research group who work on several projects focused on sustainable materials.[11][12][13][14] They have published over 130 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.[15] She contributed to the book Global Sustainability: A Nobel Cause.[16]

Awards

2018 - Royal Society of Chemistry Corday-Morgan Prize[2]

2018 - Chinese Academy of Science President Fellowship[2]

2017 - Universal Scientific Education and Research Network Laureate[9]

2017 - Honorary Doctorate from Stockholm University[17]

2016 - Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Rosenhain Medal[18]

References
  1. Insider, Ro (2018-05-08). "Bucharest chemist wins UK's Royal Society of Chemistry Prize". Romania Insider. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  2. "RSC Corday-Morgan Prize 2018 Winner". www.rsc.org. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  3. Method for producing molecularly imprinted polymers, 2005-07-04, retrieved 2018-05-12
  4. Titirici, Maria Magdalena; Sellergren, Börje (April 2004). "Peptide recognition via hierarchical imprinting". Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 378 (8): 1913–1921. doi:10.1007/s00216-003-2445-5. ISSN 1618-2642. PMID 14758460.
  5. uk, David Lockwood, info AT pageunderconstruction DOT co DOT. "Staff: School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London". www.sems.qmul.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  6. "Team". Titirici Group. Retrieved 2019-12-02.
  7. uk, David Lockwood, info AT pageunderconstruction DOT co DOT. "QMUL Meet our Professors: Going Green with Black, The Inaugural Lecture of Magda Titirici". www.sems.qmul.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  8. "Professor named Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  9. uk, David Lockwood, info AT pageunderconstruction DOT co DOT. "SEMS academic Professor Magdalena Titirici receives 2017 USERN prize in physical sciences". www.sems.qmul.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  10. "CCVC Seminar: Magda Titirici - Sustainable Carbon Materials for Renewable Energy". Department of Chemistry. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  11. Kumar, K. Vasanth; Preuss, Kathrin; Titirici, Maria-Magdalena; Rodríguez-Reinoso, Francisco (2017-01-17). "Nanoporous Materials for the Onboard Storage of Natural Gas". Chemical Reviews. 117 (3): 1796–1825. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00505. ISSN 0009-2665. PMID 28094515.
  12. White, Robin J.; Brun, Nicolas; Budarin, Vitaly L.; Clark, James H.; Titirici, Maria-Magdalena (2014-01-13). "Always Look on the "Light" Side of Life: Sustainable Carbon Aerogels". ChemSusChem. 7 (3): 670–689. doi:10.1002/cssc.201300961. ISSN 1864-5631. PMID 24420578.
  13. "Research". Titirici Group: Sustainable Materials. 2013-12-02. Archived from the original on 2018-05-13. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  14. "Now". Titirici Group: Sustainable Materials. 2013-12-22. Archived from the original on 2018-05-13. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  15. "Prof. Magdalena Titirici – Pioneering Minds". www.pioneeringminds.com. 2017-06-27. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  16. Global sustainability : a Nobel cause. Schellnhuber, Hans-Joachim., Interdisciplinary Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability (1st : 2007 : Potsdam, Germany). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2010. ISBN 9780521769341. OCLC 496964533.CS1 maint: others (link)
  17. Sandberg, Anne Heikkinen. "Honorary Doctorates 2017 - Stockholm University". www.su.se. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  18. uk, David Lockwood, info AT pageunderconstruction DOT co DOT. "Prof Magda Titirici is awarded the Rosenhain Medal of the IOM3". www.sems.qmul.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
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