Niko Kruse
Niko Kruse
Doctoral Student
PhD Project
Titanium-based inorganic-inorganic hybrid photocatalysts for CO2 Activation
Funded by the BMFTR Project „Su2nCat-CO2” within the program SINATRA: Noble-metal free hybrid catalysts for the direct conversion of CO2 with sunlight.
Prizes & Awards
ECOSS 37 – EPS Student Poster Prize
Erasmus+ Traineeship abroad (Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNano), Aarhus University, Denmark)
Publications
Justin Klimek, Filip Hallböök, Niko Kruse, Fangliang Li, Sara Blomberg, Katharina Al-Shamery, Lars Mohrhusen: Role of Water in Low-Temperature CO2 Reduction at Defect-Rich TiO2
Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 2026, e7574479.
Niko Kruse, Kerry Hazeldine, Martin Hedevang, Celina Groothuis, Duy Le, Talat S. Rahman, Jeppe V. Lauritsen, Lars Mohrhusen: Monolayer TiS2 Nanosheets on Au(111)–Structural Characterization and Effect of Edge Stability for Shape Control
Small 2025, e06023.
Curriculum Vitae
2021 – 2024
Master of Science (Chemie) at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg:
Master Thesis: Synthesis and Structure of TiS2 Nanoparticles on Au(111) as a Model Catalyst (Collaboration with J. Lauritsen, Aarhus University, Cosupervision with. Prof. K. Al-Shamery)
2020
Bachelor of Science (Chemie) at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg:
Bachelor Thesis: Adsorption of Alcohols on Rutile TiO2 (110) – Parameters and Analysis Methods for Temperature-programmed Desorption Spectroscopy (AG Al-Shamery)