26 June 2025
Juniorprofessor Dr. Jun Huang has been awarded the Hellmuth Fischer Medal from the Dechema Gesellschaft für Chemische Technik und Biotechnologie, brief DECHEMA, "For his seminal use of theoretical methods to deepen the understanding of electrochemical interface structures, impedance spectroscopy and electrocatalysis."
The DECHEMA awards the Hellmuth Fischer Medal preferably to younger scientists for work that has contributed towards extending or deepening the fundamentals of electrochemistry, corrosion, or corrosion protection, or towards their industrial application.
Thirteen awards have been given since 1989. This year's award recognizes, for the first time, a contribution to theoretical electrochemistry, and it is the first time to award a recipient from Forschungszentrum Jülich.
Jun Huang obtained his bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees from the department of automotive engineering of Tsinghua University in 2012 and 2017, respectively, both under the supervision of Prof. Jianbo Zhang. From Oct. 2015 to May 2016, he was a visiting Ph.D. student in Prof. Michael Eikerling's research group at Simon Fraser University. From July 2017 to November 2019, he was an associate professor at Central South University, China. He moved to Germany in 2020. After an initial three-month visit at Juelich Research Center, he worked as a Humboldt fellow with Prof. Axel Groß at Ulm University until he took his current position as a Helmholtz Young Investigators group leader at IET-3. During the Humboldt fellowship, he had a four-month research stay at the Institute of Electrochemistry at Alicante University (Host: Professors Juan Feliu and Victor Climent) in 2021. His research focuses mainly on developing density-potential functional theoretic methods for understanding thermodynamics and nonequilibrium dynamics of electrocatalytic double layers, especially on the mesoscale. His research received financial support from the Helmholtz Young Investigators award (05.2022-04.2017) and ERC Starting Grant (01.2025-12.2029).
