Priv.Doz. Dr. Simon Penner
Priv.Doz- Dr. Simon Penner
Simon Penner
> 192 publications
Personal Data
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Nationality
April 4th, 1975
Innsbruck, Austria
Austrian
Career History
2016 to date
Coordinator doctoral program ‘Catalysis and Reactivity’, University of Innsbruck (UIBK)
2015 to date
2014-to date
Vice-Chair of the GÖCH group ‘Catalysis and Surface Chemistry’
Speaker of the group ‘Reactivity’ within the research platform “Advanced Materials” at the UIBK
04/2011 to date
04/2011
Senior Scientist at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, UIBK
Habilitation in Physical Chemistry, Venia Docendi
2011 to date
Co-Investigator of FWF-SFB F45 “Functional Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces”, Project Part F4503-N16 “Catalytic synergisms at (bi)metallic and oxidic phase boundaries and interfaces”
2011 to date
Co-Group Leader of the "Nanostructured Model Catalysts" Group at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, UIBK
2005-2011
2004-2005
University Assistant, Institute of Physical Chemistry, UIBK
Postdoc in Charles T. Campbell’s group at the University of Washington, US
Main Research Areas and Recognition
- Catalysis: Structure-activity correlations in simple & complex oxide and oxide-supported metal and intermetallic compound-related catalysts with special focus on reforming reactions involving methanol and methane.
- Thin Film Model Systems: Preparation and characterization of simple and oxide/carbide-supported bi-and multi-metallic (thin film) catalyst systems.
- High-End Catalyst characterization: (High-resolution) analytical electron microscopy in heterogeneous catalysis; In situ and Operando Spectroscopic and Structural studies (e.g., X-ray diffraction, FT-Infrared Spectroscopy, Electric Impedance Spectroscopy or Thermogravimetry).
Additional Research Achievements
Invited Speaker
(within the last five years)
30/03/2023
06/12/2021
17/09/2019
06/10/2018
Minisymposium “Intermetallic compounds in Catalysis”
ECMatAC Days
IX. Conference on Mechanisms of Catalytic Reactions
International Symposium on Intermetallic Compounds in Catalysis (Keynote)
19/09/2016
16/11/2016
13th Pannonian Symposium on Catalysis (Keynote)
UniCat Colloquium, Technische Universität Berlin
Prizes and Awards
2014
CAST Technology Award 2014 (3rd place): Development of an operando/in situ reactor cell for FT-IR spectroscopy
Funded Research Projects
2023 - 2026
2022 - 2025
2017 - 2020
FWF Project P 36926-N “Optimization of Carbon Chemistry in Methane Dry Reforming” (320.775 €)
FWF project P 35770-N “Double Perovskite – based Mixed Ion-Electronic Conductors” (342.750 €)
DACH – FWF/DFG project I 2877-N34 “The Quest to Reliable Structure-Property Relationships in Methanol Steam Reforming (146.034 €)
2016 - 2019
Long-Term Proposal in situ XRD diffraction at ALS light source, Berkeley ALS-08048 (5 % of available beam time “High-temperature synchrotron X-ray diffraction in controllable gas atmospheres: Stability of complex metal-oxide systems and in-situ studies under realistic operando conditions”.)
2015 - 2016
FFG project 848825, with Reinhard Kaindl/Joanneum Graz, “PVD-Micro-Solid Oxide Fuel cells” (131.200 Euro)
Editorial and Reviewer Activities
Since 2014:
Catalysts (Guest Editor “Reforming Catalysis” in 2016)
Reviewer for 20+ peer-reviewed journals in catalysis, physical chemistry and materials science as well as for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and for European Research Council (ERC).
Additional Skills
Russian Language Course (60 h, B2-C1 level) at Russian in St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia
Russian Language Course (80 h, B2 level) at Odessa Language School Centre, Odessa, Ukraine
Career-related distance study at Goethe-Institute, Munich and Karlsruhe: “Methodik und Didaktik des fremdsprachlichen Deutschunterrichtes (Methods and didactics of teaching German as foreign language)”
