News from the Delley group
May 12, 2025
Nina successfully defended her PhD thesis! Congratulations, Nina!
April 24, 2025
Congratulations to Jasmine for winning a poster prize at this years SCS Spring Meeting!
April 8, 2025
Our group held its first PhD defence! Congratulations to Vanessa on the successful completion of her thesis.
December 30, 2024
We just published our work on Disentangling Chemical Interactions and Electric Fields at Electrochemical Interfaces in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C ! Congrats to Jasmine! DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c07553
December 2024
Murielle has been awarded the Ruzicka Prize 2024! The Ruzicka award ceremony will take place on February 14, 2025. Learn more about the award here.
September 5, 2024
Jasmine and Anies both won a runner's up poster prizes at this year's SCS Fall Meeting. Congratulations to both of them!
July 19, 2024
Just published! Please check out our new publication on the epoxidation catalysis by cobalt sulfide and how this parallels electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction in Catal. Sci. Technol.2024, DOI: 10.1039/D4CY00518J. Congratulations to Vanessa and the team!
June 1, 2024
We warmly welcome Anne Stoppel to the group! Anne is a new PhD student in the group and will study modified surfaces of transition metal phosphides for catalysis.
February 15, 2024
Welcome to Anies Rösch! Anies is a new PhD student in the group working on the controlled modification of inorganic materials for catalysis.
January 15, 2024
Welcome to Martina Pogany! Martina is starting an exciting PhD project in the group elucidating electrified interfaces of electrode materials.
December 1, 2023
Congratulations to Nina for winning a runner's up poster prize at the PCC Christmas Symposium!
October 24, 2023
Just published! We are delighted to share the first publication from our lab, now published in JACS. We show how number and type of sulfur on a cobalt phosphide surface tunes hydrogenation catalysis, in J. Am. Chem. Soc.2023,DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c07312. Congratulations to Nina and Vanessa!
August 25, 2023
Congratulations to Tzu-Chin (Jasmine) Chang Chien, who won the runner's up prize for the best talk at the SCS fall meeting 2023! Very well done and well deserved, Jasmine!
July 10, 2023
We are moving to the Rosental site of the University of Basel! Our new address is University of Basel, Department of Chemistry, Mattenstrasse 22, Postfach, 4002 Basel.
June 28, 2023
Check out our conference report of the farewell symposium to Professors Catherine Housecroft and Ed Constable here.
May 1, 2023
Welcome to our new postdoc Manjistha Mukherjee! Manjistha is joining us after her PhD with Abhishek Dey and her postdoc with Tom Ward. She will be exploring electric-field assisted catalysis by immobilized molecular complexes and contribute to the joint efforts of the NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering.
May 1, 2023
Welcome to Chunlin Yuan! He is starting an exciting PhD project on a joint position with the Operando Spectroscopy Group by Maarten Nachtegaal at PSI in association with the Swiss Nanoscience Institute.
April 1, 2023
Welcome to our new PhD candidate Yu-Chun Shen! She will be exploring new catalysis by inorganic materials and their tuning.
March 2, 2023
Congratulations to Jasmine who got selected as a board member of the PhD Chemistry Community (PCC). Jasmine will be in charge of industry relations and integrity work. As part of her integrity duties she will think about mental health, bullying, and discrimination issues and be a link between the university and the PhD students and postdocs. We thank Jasmine for being part of the lead of the PCC student association and for taking up these very important responsibilities!
March 1, 2023
We welcome Gregor Wasser! He is starting an exciting PhD project on heteroatom effects in heterogeneous catalysis.
February 8, 2023
The Swiss National Science Foundation honors Murielle with a nomination to be a fellow of "AcademiaNet – The Portal to Excellent Women Academics". Link
February 6, 2023
A warm welcome to Eibhlin Meade! She is starting her Master thesis in the group.
November 30, 2022
Murielle has been appointed as tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Basel (check out the Uni News). Send Murielle your application documents if you are interested in joining our growing team.
November 10, 2022
Murielle has received an SNSF Starting Grant (link). We thank SNSF for the support and are looking forward to pursuing exciting new research directions designing solid/solution interfaces for electrocatalysis.
November 14, 2022
Welcome to Nicolas Brunner! He is starting a Master project in the group on surface electric fields.
October 3, 2022
Welcome to Matthias Büttler! He is starting an exciting Master project in the group on the surface chemistry of transition metal phosphides.
June 24, 2022
Awesome group effort at the PCC Summerparty 2022! Periodic cupcakes! Next year with cupcake sizes by natural abundance?
June 20, 2022
Welcome to Tegele Si! She will be doing a Master research project in the group.
May 5, 2022
Just published! Check out how electrolyte cations affect acidity and electric fields at the surface of functionalized gold.
Delley, M. F.*; Nichols, E. M.; Mayer, J. M. Electrolyte Cation Effects on Interfacial Acidity and Electric Fields. J. Phys. Chem. C 2022, 126, 8477 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c01134.
May 1, 2022
Welcome to Dr. Yunfei Jiao! He just joined the group as a Postdoc.
March 25, 2022
Welcome to Daela Milinkovic! She just joined the group as a Master student.
October 11, 2021
Ronny Hardegger just joined the group as a Master student. Welcome!
October 6, 2021
The Swiss National Science Foundation Centers of Competence in Research (SNSF NCCR) have launched a campaign to support and celebrate equality and diversity in science. #NCCRWomen introduces women in science and their research. See e.g. our contribution with the NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering here.
October 1, 2021
Welcome to Tzu-Chin (Jasmine) Chang Chien, a new PhD student in the group!
September 10, 2021
Congratulations to Vanessa for winning an award for her poster at the SCS fall meeting 2021! Great job, Vanessa, and very well deserved!
August 30, 2021
Aysha returns to the group for her Master thesis project. Welcome back!
August 27, 2021
Our recent JACS work (JACS, 2021,143, 10778) has been highlighted in Nature Chemistry by Eric Piechota: See "Deconvoluting double layers" here.
August 16, 2021
Géraldine joins the group for a Master research project. Welcome!
July 13, 2021
Check out Murielle's new publication examining how applied potentials and electrolyte solution conditions affect the effective acidity at electrified interfaces.
Delley, M. F.†,*; Nichols, E. M.†,*; Mayer, J. M.* Interfacial Acid/Base Equilibria and Electric Fields Concurrently Probed by In-Situ Surface-Enhanced Infrared Spectroscopy. JACS 2021, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c05419.
July 1, 2021
Antonia just joined the group for a Master research project. Welcome!
April 6, 2021
Aysha joins the group for a Master research project. Welcome!
February 1, 2021
Miguel joins the group. Welcome!