Dennis Hetterscheid tries to understand and mimic bioinorganic multi-electron processes that are relevant to our future energy infrastructure.

The research of Dennis Hetterscheid is carried out both in the MCBIM and CASC research groups of Leiden University.

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Curriculum Vitae

Personal information

Nationality:   Dutch
Date of birth:   6 Oktober 1978

Education

2007   PhD, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 15 March 2007.
Thesis title: "The chemistry of organometallic Rh^II and Ir^II complexes"
Advisors: Prof. B. de Bruin and Prof. A.E. Rowan
2002   MSc in Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen

Current and previous research positions

2013 – now     Tenure Track Assistant professor, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University the Netherlands.
2009 – 2012   Post-doctoral Researcher, Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, supported by a Veni fellowship (Prof. J.N.H. Reek).
2007 – 2008   Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States, supported by a Rubicon Fellowship (Prof. R.R. Schrock).

Grants, awards, recognitions since 2010

2014   FOM ‘CO₂ neutral fuels’ programme grant with M.T.M. Koper and E. Bouwman (k€ 464)
2014   NWO-CW ECHO-STIP grant (k€ 260)
2014   EU ERC Starting Grant (k€ 1,500)

Contribution to teaching and supervision

Two courses at Leiden University: Spectroscopy at Leiden University for MSc Chemistry students, BSc Advanced minor students and Pre-Master students. Bioinorganic Catalysis for MSc Chemistry students.

Supervision of 7 PhD students since 2013. 

Other responsibilities since 2010

• Board Member of the Wiley journal ChemistrySelect
• Guest Editor for EurJIC together with Licheng Sun on a special issue on “water oxidation” published in 2014: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejic.v2014.4/issuetoc
• Guest Editor for Catalysis Today with Wilson Smith on a special issue on “photocatalytic and electrocatalytic water splitting” which will appear in 2017
• Member of the education committee of the Netherlands Institute for Catalysis Research (NIOK)
• Member of the education committee of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC)
• Member of the scientific committee of the International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) 2017.
• Member of the NWO Study Groups “Spectroscopy & Theory” and “Coordination Chemistry & Homogeneous Catalysis” 
• Reviewer for several Wiley, ACS, RSC and Elsevier journals

Publication record including five recent representative publications

35 papers with >1000 citations, H-index 20 (Web of Science)

Full publication record: ResearcherID

• Abril P., Rio M.P. del, Tejel C., Verhoeven M.W.G.M., Niemantsverdriet J.W., Ham C.J.M van der, Kottrup K.G., Hetterscheid D.G.H., Detangling catalyst modification reactions from the oxygen evolution reaction by on-line mass spectrometry. ACS Catalysis. 2016, 6, 7872-7875.
• Kottrup K.G., Hetterscheid D.G.H., Evaluation of iron-based electrocatalysts for water oxidation - an on-line mass spectrometry approach. Chem Commun. 2016, 52, 2643-2646.
• Ham C.J.M. van der, Koper M.T.M., Hetterscheid D.G.H., Challenges in reduction of dinitrogen by proton and electron transfer. Chem Soc Rev. 2014, 43, 5183-5191.
• Diaz-Morales O., Hersbach T.J.P., Hetterscheid D.G.H., Reek J.N.H., Koper M.T.M., Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Characterization of an Iridium-Based Molecular Catalyst for Water Splitting: Turnover Frequencies, Stability, and Electrolyte Effects. J Am Chem Soc. 2014, 136, 10432-10439.
• Venturini A., Barbieri A., Reek J.N.H., Hetterscheid D.G.H., Catalytic Water Splitting with an Iridium Carbene Complex: A Theoretical Study. Chem-Eur J. 2014, 20, 5358-5368.

Presentations including five presentations at international conferences since 2010

Several invited presentations at universities, institutes, and invited lectures at international conferences.

• 12th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry conference (EuroBIC–12), 24-28 August 2014, Zürich, Switzerland
• 41st international conference on coordination chemistry (ICCC–41), 21-25 July 2014, Singapore.
• #2 Molecules and Materials for Artificial Photosynthesis, 25-28 February 2016, Cancun, Mexico
• Summer School on Energy related phenomenon organised by the University of Zürich Research Priority Program on Solar Light to Chemical Energy Conversion, 9-12 September 2014, Les Diablerets, Switzerland
• 250^th ACS National Meeting, 16-20 Augustus 2015, Boston, United States

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