Business card Prof. Dr. Sebastian Fiechter
- Diplom Mineralogist / Material Scientist
- Scientific Management
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Fiechter
born: 03.02.1954 (Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg)
Current position at HZB: emeritus, guest and ombudsman at HZB
Work topics
- Development of new materials for light-induced water splitting (chalcogenides, transition metal dichalcogenides)
- Development of electrocatalysts for water splitting
- Structure-functionality correlation in electrocatalysis
- Electrode development for solar hydrogen production
- Absorbers for thin-film solar cells
- Thermodynamic modeling in multiphase systems
- Investigation of phase diagrams and synthesis steps as well as
- Material stability by means of DTA, DSC and TG-MS
Professional career
since January 2020: emeritus, Ombudsman at HZB
from August to December 2019: senior scientist at the Institute for Solar Fuels (CE-IF)
July 2012 - July 2019:
Deputy Head of the Institute "Solar Fuels" (CE-IF)
of the Solar Energy Research Division of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB)
since October 2008
Acting Institute Director "Solar Fuels and Energy Storage Systems" (E-I6)
of the Solar Energy Research Division of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
2003 - 2008
Deputy Head of the Department "Solar Energetics
of the Solar Energy Research Division of the Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin
2004
Habilitation at the TU - Berlin at Faculty VI;
venia legendi in applied mineralogy and crystallography
1983-2008
Research associate in the "Solar Energetics" department of the Hahn-Meitner-Institut
(headed until Sept. 2008 by Prof. Dr. Helmut Tributsch); head of the materials laboratory
1982 - 1983
University assistant at the University of Freiburg i. Br.
1979 - 1982
Doctorate at the Crystallographic Institute of the Albrecht-Ludwigs-University Freiburg i. Br.
1973- 1978
Studies of mineralogy / crystallography at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg im Breisgau
Doctoral thesis / Freiburg i. Br. 1982
Crystal growth of ion-conducting argyrodites of the type
type Cu6PS5Hal (Hal = Cl, Br, I)