Current academic positions 2024 – present Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies 2017 – present Professor of Energy & Sustainability, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge 2011 – present Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge Current entrepreneurial positions 2024 – present Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, waste-to-fuel technology start-up, Protonera Ltd Previous academic appointments 2015 – 2017 University Reader, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge 2012 – 2019 Director, Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable SynGas Chemistry, Cambridge 2010 – 2024 College Lecturer, Organic Chemistry, St. John's College, Cambridge 2010 – 2015 University Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge 2010 – 2015 EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge 2009 – 2010 EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow, School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, UK Previous postdoc positions 2008 – 2009 BBSRC Research Associate, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University Oxford, UK Supervisor: Prof. Fraser A. Armstrong 2008 – 2009 College Lecturer, Inorganic Chemistry, St. John’s College, Oxford, UK 2005 – 2007 Erwin Schrödinger Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Supervisor: Prof. Stephen J. Lippard Education and degrees 2010 Habilitation (professorial qualification), Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria Thesis Topic: ‘Bio-inspired generation of sustainable energy carriers’ 2002 – 2005 PhD with distinction (grade 1.0), Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria (including 1-year research at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal) Thesis Topic: ‘Redox activated ruthenium anticancer drugs’Supervisor: Prof. Bernhard K. Keppler 1998 – 2002 Diploma with distinction, 5-year programme with integrated BSc (grade 1.0) and MSc (grade 1.0), Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria (including Erasmus exchange semester, New University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Solar fuels devices Semi-artificial photosynthesis Semi-biological photosynthesis Solar reforming Hybrid technologies Organic synthesis

Semiartificial photoelectrochemistry for CO2-mediated enantioselective organic synthesis.Bouwens, T.; Cobb, S. J.; Yeung, C. W. S.; Liu, Y.; Martins, G.; Pereira, I. A. C.; Reisner, E. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, Accepted. Photoelectrochemical comproportionation of pre-treated PET plastics and CO2 to formate.Liu, Y.; Yeung, C. W. S.; Reisner, E. Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Advance Article. Driving electrochemical organic hydrogenations on metal catalysts by tailoring hydrogen surface coverages.Ciotti, A.; Rahaman, M.; Yeung, C. W. S.; Li, T.; Reisner, E.; García-Melchor, M. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, Accepted. Solar-driven paired CO2 reduction–alcohol oxidation using semiartificial suspension, photocatalyst sheet, and photoelectrochemical devices.Rahaman, M.; Pulignani, C.; Miller, M.; Bhattacharjee, S.; Mohamad Annuar, A. B.; Manuel, R. R.; Pereira, I. A. C.; Reisner, E. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, Accepted. Bio-inspired self-assembly of enzyme-micelle systems for semi-artificial photosynthesis.Liu, Y.; Rodríguez-Jiménez, S.; Song, H.; Pannwitz, A.; Kim, D.; Coito, A. M.; Manuel, R. R.; Webb, S.; Su, L.; Bonke, S. A.; Milton, R. D.; Pereira, I. A. C.; Bonnet, S.; Hammarström, L.; Reisner, E. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025, Accepted. Direct air capture of CO2 for solar fuel production in flow.Kar, S.; Kim, D.; Annuar, A. B. M.; Sarma, B. B.; Stanton, M.; Lam, E.; Bhattacharjee, S.; Karak, S.; Greer, H. F.; Reisner, E. Nat. Energy , 2025, Accepted. Perovskite-driven solar C2 hydrocarbon synthesis from CO2.Andrei, V.; Roh, I.; Lin, J.-A.; Lee, J.; Shan, Y.; Lin, C.-K.; Shelton, S.; Reisner, E.; Yang, P. Nat. Catal. , 2025, Accepted. Modular perovskite-BiVO4 artificial leaves towards syngas synthesis on a m2 scale.Andrei, V.; Chiang, Y.-H.; Rahaman, M.; Anaya, M.; Kang, T.; Ruggeri, E.; Stranks, S. D.; Reisner, E. Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, Accepted. Anisotropic heterobimetallic nanomaterials with controlled composition for efficient oxygen reduction at ultralow loading.Ming, S.; Cobb, S. J.; Rahaman, M.; Sammy, N.; Reisner, E.; Wheatley, A. E. H. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2024, 34, 2411006. Semiartificial photosynthetic nanoreactors for H2 generation.Zhang, H.; Jaenecke, J.; Bishara-Robertson, I. L.; Casadevall, C.; Redman, H. J.; Winkler, M.; Berggren, G.; Plumeré, N.; Butt, J. N.; Reisner, E.; Jeuken, L. J. C. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2024, 146, 34260-34264. Photocatalytic water splitting for large-scale solar-to-chemical energy conversion and storage.Hisatomi, T.; Wang, Q.; Zhang, F.; Ardo, S.; Reisner, E.; Nishiyama, H.; Kudo, A.; Yamada, T.; Domen, K. Front. Sci., 2024, 2, 1411644. Solar fuel synthesis using a semiartificial colloidal Z-scheme.Liu, Y.; Mohamad Annuar, A. B.; Rodríguez-Jiménez, S.; Yeung, C. W. S.; Wang, Q.; Coito, A. M.; Manuel, R. R.; Pereira, I. A. C.; Reisner, E. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2024, 146, 29865-29876. A photoelectrochemical-thermoelectric device for semi-artificial CO2 fixation employing full solar spectrum utilization.Cobb, S. J.; Pornrungroj, C.; Andrei, V.; Badiani, V. M.; Su, L.; Manuel, R. R.; Pereira, I. A. C.; Reisner, E. Device, 2024, 2, 100505. Solar-driven methanogenesis through microbial ecosystem engineering on carbon nitride.Kalathil, S.; Rahaman, M.; Lam, E.; Augustin, T. L.; Greer, H. F.; Reisner, E. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, 63, e202409192. Influence of electron donors on the charge transfer dynamics of carbon nanodots in photocatalytic systems.Macpherson, S.; Lawson, T.; Abfalterer, A.; Andrich, P.; Lage, A.; Reisner, E.; Euser, T. G.; Stranks, S. D.; Gentleman, A. S. ACS Catal., 2024, 14, 12006-12015. Organic semiconductor-BiVO4 tandem devices for solar-driven H2O and CO2 splitting.Yeung, C. W. S.; Andrei, V.; Lee, T. H.; Durrant, J. R.; Reisner, E. Adv. Mater., 2024, 36, 2404110. Engineering of bespoke photosensitiser-microbe interfaces for enhanced semi-artificial photosynthesis.Robertson, I. L. B.; Zhang, H.; Reisner, E.; Butt, J.; Jeuken, L. J. C. Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 9893-9914. Multi-variable multi-metric optimization of self-assembled photocatalytic CO2 reduction performance using machine learning algorithms.Bonke, S. A.; Trezza, G.; Bergamasco, L.; Song, H.; Rodríguez-Jiménez, S.; Hammarström, L.; Chiavazzo, E.; Reisner, E. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2024, 146, 15648-15658. High carrier mobility along the [111] orientation in Cu2O photoelectrodes.Pan, L.; Dai, L.; Burton, O. J.; Chen, L.; Andrei, V.; Zhang, Y.; Ren, D.; Cheng, J.; Wu, L.; Frohna, K.; Abfalterer, A.; Yang, T. C.-J.; Niu, W.; Xia, M.; Hofmann, S.; Dyson, P. J.; Reisner, E.; Sirringhaus, H.; Luo, J.; Hagfeldt, A.; Grätzel, M.; Stranks, S. D. Nature, 2024, 628, 765-770. Photocatalytic CO2 reduction using homogeneous carbon dots with a molecular cobalt catalyst.Kim, D.; Bhattacharjee, S.; Lam, E.; Casadevall, C.; Rodríguez-Jiménez, S.; Reisner, E. Small, 2024, 20, 2400057. Electrostatic [FeFe]-hydrogenase–carbon nitride assemblies for efficient solar hydrogen production.Liu, Y.; Pulignani, C.; Webb, S.; Cobb, S. J.; Rodríguez-Jiménez, S.; Kim, D.; Milton, R. D.; Reisner, E. Chem. Sci., 2024, Accepted. Low-temperature open-atmosphere growth of WO3 thin films with tunable and high-performance photoresponse.Sun, Z.; Bhattacharjee, S.; Xiao, M.; Li, W.; O Hill, M.; Jagt, R. A.; Delumeau, L.-V.; Musselman, K. P.; Reisner, E.; MacManus-Driscoll, J. J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted. Operando film-electrochemical EPR spectroscopy tracks radical intermediates in surface-immobilized catalysts.Seif-Eddine, M.; Cobb, S. J.; Dang, Y.; Abdiaziz, K.; Bajada, M. A.; Reisner, E.; Roessler, M. M. Nat. Chem., 2024, Accepted. Solar reforming as an emerging technology for circular chemical industries.Bhattacharjee, S.; Linley, S.; Reisner, E. Nat. Rev. Chem., 2024, Accepted. Connecting biological and synthetic approaches for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction.Cobb, S. J.; Rodríguez-Jiménez, S.; Reisner, E. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, Accepted. Valorisation of lignocellulose and low concentration CO2 using a fractionation-photocatalysis-electrolysis process.Rodríguez-Jiménez, S.; Lam, E.; Bhattacharjee, S.; Reisner, E. Green Chem., 2023, 25, 10611-10621. Hybrid photothermal–photocatalyst sheets for solar-driven overall water splitting coupled to water purification.Pornrungroj, C.; Mohamad Annuar, A. B.; Wang, Q.; Rahaman, M.; Bhattacharjee, S.; Andrei, V.; Reisner, E. Nat. Water, 2023, 1, 952-960. Chemoenzymatic photoreforming: a sustainable approach for solar fuel generation from plastic feedstocks.Bhattacharjee, S.; Guo, C.; Lam, E.; Holstein, J. M.; Pereira, M. R.; Pichler, C. M.; Pornrungroj, C.; Rahaman, M.; Uekert, T.; Hollfelder, F.; Reisner, E. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 20355-20364. Size-dependent activity of carbon dots for photocatalytic H2 generation in combination with a molecular Ni cocatalyst.Casadevall, C.; Lage, A.; Mu, M.; Greer, H. F.; Antón-García, D.; Butt, J.; Jeuken, L. J. C.; Watson, G. W.; Garcia-Melchor, M.; Reisner, E. Nanoscale, 2023, 15, 15775-15784. Best practices for experiments and reporting in photocatalytic CO2 reduction.Bonchio, M.; Bonin, J.; Ishitani, O.; Lu, T.-B.; Morikawa, T.; Morris, A. J.; Reisner, E.; Sarkar, D.; Toma, F. M.; Robert, M. Nat. Catal., 2023, 6, 657-665. Photocatalytic CO2 reduction.Fang, S.; Rahaman, M.; Bharti, J.; Reisner, E.; Robert, M.; Ozin, G. A.; Hu, Y. H. Nat. Rev. Methods Primers, 2023, 3, 61. Rational design of covalent multiheme cytochrome-carbon dot biohybrids for photoinduced electron transfer.Zhang, H.; Casadevall, C.; van Wonderen, J. H.; Su, L.; Butt, J. N.; Reisner, E.; Jeuken, L. J. C. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2023, 33, 202302204. Low-volume reaction monitoring of carbon dot light absorbers in optofluidic microreactors.Lawson, T.; Gentleman, A. S.; Lage, A.; Casadevall, C.; Xiao, J.; Petit, T.; Frosz, M. H.; Reisner, E.; Euser, T. G. ACS Catal., 2023, 13, 9090-9101. Integrated capture and solar-driven utilization of CO2 from flue gas and air.Kar, S.; Rahaman, M.; Andrei, V.; Bhattacharjee, S.; Roy, S.; Reisner, E. Joule, 2023, 7, 1496-1514. Thermoelectric–photoelectrochemical water splitting under concentrated solar irradiation.Pornrungroj, C.; Andrei, V.; Reisner, E. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 13709-13714. Heterostructured PHI-PTI/Li+Cl− carbon nitrides for multiple photocatalytic applications.Galushchinskiy, A.; Pulignani, C.; Szalad, H.; Reisner, E.; Albero, J.; Tarakina, N. V.; Pelicano, C. M.; García, H.; Savateev, O.; Antonietti, M. Solar RRL, 2023, 7, 202300077. Solar-driven liquid multi-carbon fuel production using a standalone perovskite–BiVO4 artificial leaf.Rahaman, M.; Andrei, V.; Wright, D.; Lam, E.; Pornrungroj, C.; Bhattacharjee, S.; Pichler, C. M.; Greer, H. F.; Baumberg, J. J.; Reisner, E. Nat. Energy, 2023, 8, 629-638. Floating carbon nitride composites for practical solar reforming of pre-treated wastes to hydrogen gas.Linley, S.; Reisner, E. Adv. Sci., 2023, 10, 202207314. Carboxysome-inspired electrocatalysis using enzymes for the reduction of CO2 at low concentrations.Cobb, S. J.; Dharani, A. M.; Oliveira, A. R.; Pereira, I. A. C.; Reisner, E. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 62, e202218782. Photosynthesis re-wired on the pico-second timescale.Baikie, T. K.; Wey, L. T.; Lawrence, J. M.; Medipally, H.; Reisner, E.; Nowaczyk, M. M.; Friend, R. H.; Howe, C. J.; Schnedermann, C.; Rao, A.; Zhang, J. Z. Nature, 2023, 615, 836-840. Comproportionation of CO2 and cellulose to formate using a floating semiconductor-enzyme photoreforming catalyst.Lam, E.; Miller, M.; Linley, S.; Manuel, R. R.; Pereira, I. A. C.; Reisner, E. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 62, e202215894. Photoelectrochemical CO2-to-fuel conversion with simultaneous plastic reforming.Bhattacharjee, S.; Rahaman, M.; Andrei, V.; Miller, M.; Rodríguez-Jiménez, S.; Lam, E.; Pornrungroj, C.; Reisner, E. Nat. Synth., 2023, 2, 182-192. Hybrid photocathode based on Ni molecular catalyst and Sb2Se3 for solar H2 production.Osorio, D. A. G.; Shalvey, T.; Banerji, L.; Saeed, K. H.; Neri, G.; Phillips, L.; Hutter, O. S.; Casadevall, C.; Antón-García, D.; Reisner, E.; Major, J.; Cowan, A. J. Chem. Commun., 2023, 59, 944-947. In-situ detection of cobaloxime intermediates during photocatalysis using hollow-core photonic crystal fiber microreactors.Lawson, T.; Gentleman, A. S.; Pinnell, J.; Eisenschmidt, A.; Antón-García, D.; Frosz, M. H.; Reisner, E.; Euser, T. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 62, e202214788. Solar panel technologies for light-to-chemical conversion.Andrei, V.; Wang, Q.; Uekert, T.; Bhattacharjee, S.; Reisner, E. Acc. Chem. Res., 2022, 55, 3376-3386. Bio-electrocatalytic conversion of food waste to ethylene via succinic acid as the central intermediate.Pichler, C. M.; Bhattacharjee, S.; Lam, E.; Su, L.; Collauto, A.; Roessler, M. M.; Cobb, S. J.; Badiani, V. M.; Rahaman, M.; Reisner, E. ACS Catal., 2022, 12, 13360-13371. Rational design of carbon nitride photoelectrodes with high activity toward organic oxidations.Pulignani, C.; Mesa, C.; Hillman, S.; Uekert, T.; Gimenez, S.; Durrant, J.; Reisner, E. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202211587. Reaction of thiosulfate dehydrogenase with a substrate mimic induces dissociation of the cysteine heme ligand giving insights into the mechanism of oxidative catalysis.Jenner, L. P.; Crack, J. C.; Kurth, J. M.; Soldánová, Z.; Brandt, L.; Sokol, K. P.; Reisner, E.; Bradley, J. M.; Dahl, C.; Cheesman, M. R.; Butt, J. N. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 18296-18304. Microbial fermentation of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic waste for the production of chemicals or electricity.Kalathil, S.; Miller, M.; Reisner, E. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202211057. Stern–Volmer analysis of photocatalyst fluorescence quenching within hollow-core photonic crystal fibre microreactors.Gentleman, A. S.; Lawson, T.; Ellis, M. G.; Davis, M.; Turner-Dore, J.; Ryder, A. S. H.; Frosz, M. H.; Ciaccia, M.; Reisner, E.; Cresswell, A. J.; Euser, T. G. Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 10548-10551. Floating perovskite-BiVO4 devices for scalable solar fuel production.Andrei, V.; Ucoski, G. M.; Pornrungroj, C.; Uswachoke, C.; Wang, Q.; Achilleos, D. S.; Kasap, H.; Sokol, K. P.; Jagt, R. A.; Lu, H.; Lawson, T.; Wagner, A.; Pike, S. D.; Wright, D. S.; Hoye, R. L. Z.; MacManus-Driscoll, J. L.; Joyce, H. J.; Friend, R. H.; Reisner, E. Nature, 2022, 608, 518-522. Photocatalytic removal of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide by liposomal microreactors.Piper, S. E. H.; Casadevall, C.; Reisner, E.; Clarke, T. A.; Jeuken, L. J. C.; Gates, A. J.; Butt, J. N. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202210572. Engineering electro- and photocatalytic carbon materials for CO2 reduction by formate dehydrogenase.Badiani, V. M.; Casadevall, C.; Miller, M.; Cobb, S. J.; Manuel, R. R.; Pereira, I. A. C.; Reisner, E. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 14207-14216. Bacteria–photocatalyst sheet for sustainable carbon dioxide utilization.Wang, Q.; Kalathil, S.; Pornrungroj, C.; Sahm, C. D.; Reisner, E. Nat. Catal., 2022, 5, 633-641. Bridging plastic recycling and organic catalysis: photocatalytic deconstruction of polystyrene via a C–H oxidation pathway.Li, T.; Vijeta, A.; Casadevall, C.; Gentleman, A. S.; Euser, T.; Reisner, E. ACS Catal., 2022, 12, 8155-8163. Long-term solar water and CO2 splitting with photoelectrochemical BiOI–BiVO4 tandems.Andrei, V.; Jagt, R. A.; Rahaman, M.; Lari, L.; Lazarov, V. K.; MacManus-Driscoll, J. L.; Hoye, R. L. Z.; Reisner, E. Nat. Mater., 2022, 21, 864-868. Self-assembled liposomes enhance electron transfer for efficient photocatalytic CO2 reduction.Rodríguez-Jiménez, S.; Song, H.; Lam, E.; Wright, D.; Pannwitz, A.; Bonke, S. A.; Baumberg, J. J.; Bonnet, S.; Hammarstrom, L.; Reisner, E. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 9399–9412. Spectroelectrochemistry of water oxidation kinetics in molecular versus heterogeneous oxide iridium electrocatalysts.Bozal-Ginesta, C.; Rao, R. R.; Mesa, C. A.; Wang, Y.; Zhao, Y.; Hu, G.; Antón-García, D.; Stephens, I. E. L.; Reisner, E.; Brudvig, G. W.; Wang, D.; Durrant, J. R. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 8454-8459. Single-source deposition of mixed-metal oxide films containing zirconium and 3d transition metals for (photo)electrocatalytic water oxidation.Riesgo-Gonzalez, V.; Bhattacharjee, S.; Dong, X.; Hall, D. S.; Andrei, V.; Bond, A. D.; Grey, C. P.; Reisner. E.; Wright, D. S. Inorg. Chem., 2022, 61, 6223-6233. Tuning the local chemical environment of ZnSe quantum dots with dithiols towards photocatalytic CO2 reduction.Sahm, C.; Ciotti, A.; Mates-Torres, E.; Badiani, V. M.; Sokolowski, K.; Neri, G.; Cowan, A. J.; Garcia-Melchor, M.; Reisner E. Chem. Sci., 2022, 13, 5988-5998. An integrated carbon nitride-nickel photocatalyst for the amination of aryl halides using sodium azide.Vijeta, A.; Casadevall, C.; Reisner, E. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202203176. Fast CO2 hydration kinetics impair heterogeneous but improve enzymatic CO2 reduction catalysis.Cobb, S. J.; Badiani, V. M.; Dharani, A. M.; Wagner, A.; Zacarias, S.; Oliveira, A. R.; Zacarias, S.; Pereira, I. A. C.; Reisner, E. Nat. Chem., 2022, 14, 417-424. Understanding the local chemical environment of bioelectrocatalysis.Edwardes Moore, E.; Cobb, S. J.; Coito, A. M.; Oliveira, A. R.; Pereira, I. A. C.; Reisner, E. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2022, 119, e2114097119. Elucidating film loss and the role of hydrogen bonding of adsorbed redox enzymes by electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance analysis.Badiani, V. M.; Cobb, S. J.; Wagner, A.; Oliveira, A. R.; Zacarias, S.; Pereira, I. A. C.; Reisner, E. ACS Catal., 2022, 12, 1886-1897. Photoelectrochemical hybrid cell for unbiased CO2 reduction coupled to alcohol oxidation.Antón García, D.; Edwardes Moore, E.; Bajada, M. A.; Eisenschmidt, A.; Oliveira, A. R.; Pereira, I. A. C.; Warnan, J.; Reisner, E. Nat. Synth., 2022, 1, 77-86. Strategies to improve light utilization in solar fuel synthesis.Wang, Q.; Pornrungroj, C.; Linley, S.; Reisner, E. Nat. Energy, 2022, 7, 13-24. Reforming of soluble biomass and plastic derived waste using a bias-free Cu30Pd70|perovskite|Pt photoelectrochemical device.Bhattacharjee, S.; Andrei, V.; Pornrungroj, C.; Rahaman, M.; Pichler, C. M.; Reisner, E. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2022, 32, 2109313.