Field of Work
The group of Prof. Clemens works in the field of new battery technologies, e. g., fluoride ion batteries, in the context new resource strategies for energy storage. Further, they focus on the development of new materials for solid state batteries, which is a new technology aiming to facilitate faster charging times at increased operation safety. In connection to their battery and electrochemical research, they exploit this technology in order to synthesize materials with switchable properties (such as magnetism and superconductivity), important in the context of future electronics.
In addition to the exploration of electrocatalytically active optimized materials for fuel cells, they have recently started to work on development of future recycling strategies, in order to develop routes to reform functional materials from recycled products.
Personal Information
Oliver Clemens, born 1983 in Neunkirchen (Saar), studied chemistry at Saarland University where he also obtained his PhD in 2012 for his work on lithium containing transition metal phosphates. After a one-year postdoctoral stay at the University of Birmingham, he became group leader of the Joint Research Laboratory Nanomaterials (TU Darmstadt and KIT) at TU Darmstadt. In 2016, he was awarded a renowned Emmy-Noether fellowship of the German Research Foundation at TU Darmstadt, and there became assistant professor for material design by synthesis in the department of materials sciene. Since 2019/2020, he has worked as substitution professor at the institute for materials science at University of Stuttgart, and was appointed as full professor for chemical materials synthesis in September 2020.
Clemens received the Dr. Eduard Martin Award from Saarland University in 2013 and an Honorary Research Fellowship at the University of Birmingham in 2014. He was also one of the 2018 Emerging Investigators in Journal of Materials Chemistry A.