Dr Dmitry Momotenko has been appointed Professor of Technical Chemistry of Smart Manufacturing at the Institute of Chemistry. He studied chemistry at the Lomonosov University in Moscow (Russia) and graduated in 2009. In 2013, he completed his doctorate at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland).

Momotenko then worked at the University of Warwick (United Kingdom) with a Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Union before he moved to the ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in 2017, where he obtained an Ambizione Grant. Since 2021, he has headed a junior research group at the University of Oldenburg for which he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council.

Momotenko's main research interests include additive manufacturing, nanomanipulation, scanning probe microscopy and chemical sensing. He is currently developing new electrochemical energy storage interfaces. For example, he is developing an innovative three-dimensional and electrochemical printing process to produce nanostructured electrodes for lithium-ion batteries. His aim is to develop a new concept for energy storage – for example for mobile electronic devices, electric vehicles or robotic systems – that will enable to drastically reduce charging times.