# Research Area "Material and Energy"
**Source**: https://www.cup.lmu.de/en/research/material-and-energy/
**Parent**: https://www.cup.lmu.de/en/research/
Join us on our journey to synthesize new materials and design sustainable energy conversion and storage systems for a better future.
The aim of the research focus Materials & Energy Research and the DFG Cluster of Excellence "e-conversion" is the development of sustainable energy conversion and energy storage systems. To this end, both the synthesis of new materials and fundamental mechanistic studies to understand microscopic energy conversion processes and their targeted control are being carried out. This research work forms the basis for a whole range of applications, in particular for new types of sustainable solar cells, for electrochemical, photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen production and for electrochemical energy storage in new battery concepts. The special research strategy of the cluster focuses on fundamental mechanistic questions of energy conversion processes at interfaces, which are omnipresent in solar cells, electrolyzers and batteries, for example, and is advanced by the optimal use of synergies between synthesis, operando studies, theoretical modeling, nanoscience and device design. The research focus thrives on the close cooperation of expert groups within chemistry, physics and biology.
## Professors
Prof. Dr. Benjamin P. Fingerhut
Professor
[Send an email](mailto:benjamin.fingerhut@cup.lmu.de)
[+49 89 2180-77583](tel:+4989218077583)
[More](https://www.cup.lmu.de/en/faculty/persons/contact-page/benjamin-p-fingerhut-00a97c19.html)
Prof. Dr. Achim Hartschuh
Professor
[Send an email](mailto:achim.hartschuh@cup.lmu.de)
[+49 89 2180-77515](tel:+4989218077515)
+49 89 2180-77188
[More](https://www.cup.lmu.de/en/faculty/persons/contact-page/achim-hartschuh-d15a8f3e.html)
Prof. Dr. Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović
Chair Holder, Deputy Director Dep. Chemistry
[Send an email](mailto:ivana.ivanovic-burmazovic@cup.lmu.de)
[+49 89 2180-77404](tel:+4989218077404)
+49 89 2180-77407
[More](https://www.cup.lmu.de/en/faculty/persons/contact-page/ivana-ivanovic-burmazovic-1b0983ef.html)
Prof. Dr. Dirk Johrendt
Professor
[Send an email](mailto:dirk.johrendt@cup.lmu.de)
[+49 89 2180-77430](tel:+4989218077430)
+49 89 2180-77431
[More](https://www.cup.lmu.de/en/faculty/persons/contact-page/dirk-johrendt-d9cd9140.html)
Prof. Dr. Thomas M. Klapötke
Chair Holder
[Send an email](mailto:tmk@cup.uni-muenchen.de)
[+49 89 2180-77491](tel:+4989218077491)
+49 89 2180-77492
[More](https://www.cup.lmu.de/en/faculty/persons/contact-page/thomas-m-klapoetke-12a40f92.html)
Prof. Dr. Don C. Lamb, PhD
Professor
[Send an email](mailto:don.lamb@cup.lmu.de)
[+49 89 2180-77564](tel:+4989218077564)
+49 89 2180-77548
[More](https://www.cup.lmu.de/en/faculty/persons/contact-page/don-c-lamb-645e16de.html)
Prof. Dr. Bettina Valeska Lotsch
Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Nanochemistry
[Send an email](mailto:b.lotsch@fkf.mpg.de)
[+49 711 689-1610](tel:+497116891610)
[More](https://www.cup.lmu.de/en/faculty/persons/contact-page/bettina-valeska-lotsch-5e836e29.html)
Prof. Dr. Knut Müller-Caspary
Professor
[Send an email](mailto:k.mueller-caspary@cup.lmu.de)
[+49 89 2180-77184](tel:+4989218077184)
+49 89 2180-77622
[More](https://www.cup.lmu.de/en/faculty/persons/contact-page/knut-mueller-caspary-0bef0ad9.html)
Prof. Dr. Christian Ochsenfeld
Chair Holder, Director Dep. Chemistry
[Send an email](mailto:christian.ochsenfeld@cup.lmu.de)
[+49 89 2180-77921](tel:+4989218077921)
+49 89 2180-77919
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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schnick
Chair Holder
[Send an email](mailto:wolfgang.schnick@cup.lmu.de)
[+49 89 2180-77436](tel:+4989218077436)
+49 89 2180-77876
[More](https://www.cup.lmu.de/en/faculty/persons/contact-page/wolfgang-schnick-7386b81e.html)
Prof. Dr. Philip Tinnefeld
Chair Holder
[Send an email](mailto:philip.tinnefeld@cup.lmu.de)
[+49 89 2180-77549](tel:+4989218077549)
+49 89 2180-77548
[More](https://www.cup.lmu.de/en/faculty/persons/contact-page/philip-tinnefeld-48710c46.html)
Prof. Dr. Joost Wintterlin
Professor
[Send an email](mailto:wintterlin@cup.lmu.de)
[+49 89 2180-77606](tel:+4989218077606)
+49 89 2180-77598
[More](https://www.cup.lmu.de/en/faculty/persons/contact-page/joost-wintterlin-fbe90392.html)
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