Prof. Dr. Nejc Hodnik
Prof. Dr. Nejc Hodnik graduated and earned his doctorate from the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, completing his PhD in 2013 under the mentorship of Dr. Stanko Hočevar.
In 2014, he was awarded the prestigious Marie Curie Scholarship (now Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship) and pursued postdoctoral training at the Max Planck Institute in Düsseldorf, Germany (now the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials), under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Karl Mayrhofer.
Upon returning to Slovenia in 2016, he joined the Department of Catalysis in Chemical Engineering, securing a postdoctoral project funded by the Public Research Agency of the Republic of Slovenia (ARRS), along with an ARRS ERC-complementary scheme. During this time, he also established the ElectroCat research group.
After that he was awarded the prestigious ERC Starting Grant (123STABLE) and ERC Proof of Concept (StableCat) on the topic of electrocatalysts, the ERA-MIN 2 project on the topic of recycling of precious metals, the NATO project on the topic of graphene-based electrocatalysts, etc.
Since 2020, he leds the Laboratory for Electrocatalysis in the Department of Materials Chemistry at the National Institute of Chemistry, where he also serves as a Research Counsellor. The Laboratory, comprising more than 30 researchers, focuses on the topic of Materials for Electrochemical Energy Conversion & Corrosion & Electrosynthesis. Hodnik is supervising PhD students (~5) and managing national, international and industrial projects (~€3M), including collaborations with Johnson Matthey and EKPO.
He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Nova Gorica, where he teaches in the doctoral Materials program, and he also delivers a course on fuel cells at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School.