STEINMANN Stephan

• Grade/Status : Directeur de Recherches
• Institution : ENS de Lyon
• Building : M6
• Office : M6.040
• Phone : +334.72.72.81.55
  
• Fax : +334.72.72.88.60
• E-mail : Stephan.Steinmann
• URL : http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/stephan.steinmann/
• Axe : Chimie Théorique (CT)

• CV

  Stephan Steinmann has received his PhD in 2012 from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, under the supervision of Clémence Corminboeuf. The thesis is entitled “Understanding and Minimizing Density Functional Failures Using Dispersion Corrections”. Benefitting from a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation, he was part of the group of Weitao Yang at Duke University (Durham, USA), where he was working on approaches beyond semi-local density functionals. A second post-Doc followed under the supervision of Philippe Sautet at the ENS de Lyon, focusing on modelling the influence of the electrochemical potential in heterogeneous electrocatalysis. In 2016, he has obtained an appointment as a CNRS researcher in the “Laboratoire de Chimie” to develop methods for a realistic modelling of electrocatalysis. He is currently co-advising two PhD students and one post-Doc at the “Laboratoire de Chimie”. For a list of publications, please visit ORCiD.

  Research

  His main research activities are the application and improvements of methods to model heterogeneous electrocatalysis under realistic conditions. Therefore, the solvent and electrolyte effects are key. An emerging interest revolves around modelling alloy surfaces and kinetic Monte-Carlo.

  Funding

  ANR MUSIC (2014-2018, PI): Multiscale Simulations of Bifunctional Catalysts:
  Application to the Hydrodeoxygenation of Molecules Extracted From Biomass.

  LIA Funcat (CNRS) : Fundamental catalysis for green chemistry: From well-defined active sites to mechanistic explorations

  Total (Thèse CIFFRE): Modelling hydrogenations on alloy surfaces