Professor Karoliina Honkala

Higher education and research, particularly in chemistry, physics, and materials science

Strategic funding for research in hydrogen, sustainable transport, and circular economy

Research funding and support

Advanced spectroscopic technique used in experimental validation to characterize charge centers and electronic states during hydrogen evolution.

State-of-the-art technique for measuring electron binding energies under real reaction conditions.

Computational method developed by Melander and Honkala that enables the inclusion of electrode potential in atomic and electron level simulations of semiconductor electrochemistry.

Central Finland (Jyväskylä)

Research project studying how semiconductor materials enable green hydrogen production through photoelectrochemistry and electrocatalysis, specifically investigating polaron-mediated hydrogen evolution on titanium dioxide surfaces.

Computational method for modeling semiconductor electrochemistry at atomic and electron levels, enabling inclusion of electrode potential effects in simulations

Prototype semiconductor electrode material demonstrating polaron-mediated hydrogen evolution reaction as alternative to platinum-based catalysts