Ludmilla Steier

https://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/people/ludmilla-steier

Ludmilla is an Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Goodenough Tutorial Fellow at Saint Catherine’s College. She obtained her B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Siegen (Germany). During her undergraduate studies, she developed an interest in electrochemistry and semiconductor physics driving her to pursue an M.Sc. project on dye-sensitized solar cells in the group of Professor Michael Grätzel at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland). Staying in the same group, Ludmilla worked on oxide thin film photoelectrodes applied in photoelectrochemical water splitting and perovskite solar cells during her Ph.D. degree which she obtained in 2016. Ludmilla joined the group of Professor James Durrant at Imperial College London to study photochemical and photophysical processes in semiconductors using time-resolved spectroscopy and shortly after was awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship (2017-2019). Ludmilla began her independent research career as Imperial College Research Fellow (2019-2021) before moving to Oxford in October 2021. Her research at Oxford aims at the design of atomically defined photo- and electrocatalysts that convert CO₂, water and other “waste products” to energy-rich fuels and chemicals with high conversion efficiency, selectivity and long operational stability.