Dr. Maria Escudero Escribano, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, has been awarded the Clara Immerwahr Award 2019 for her contributions to the fields of electrocatalysis and electrochemical surface science. The award was presented at a public ceremony at the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany, on May 3, 2019.

The annual Clara Immerwahr Award honors a young female scientist at an early stage of their career for outstanding achievements in catalysis research. The award is presented by UniSysCat (Unifying Systems in Catalysis), Berlin, Germany.

Dr. Escudero Escribano’s research interests include structures of the electrochemical interface and the catalytically active sites in electrocatalysis and structure-activity-selectivity relations for electrochemical energy conversion and the electrosynthesis of renewable fuels and chemicals.

Maria Escudero Escribano studied chemical engineering at University of Extremadura, Spain, and received her Ph.D. in chemistry from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, in 2011. She then performed postdoctoral research with Ib Chorkendorff and Ifan Stephens at the Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, and worked as a visiting scholar with Thomas Jaramillo, Stanford University, CA, USA. Since 2017, she is Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry and the Nano-Science Center at the University of Copenhagen. Among other honors, Escudero-Escribano has received the European Young Chemist Award 2016 from EuChemS, the Princess of Girona Scientific Research Award 2018, and the Electrochemical Society Energy Technology Division Young Investigator Award 2018.

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Selected Publications

• Copper Silver Thin Films with Metastable Miscibility for Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis in Alkaline Electrolytes,
  Drew Higgins, Melissa Wette, Brenna M. Gibbons, Samira Siahrostami, Christopher Hahn, Marı́a Escudero-Escribano, Max García-Melchor, Zachary Ulissi, Ryan C. Davis, Apurva Mehta, Bruce M. Clemens, Jens K. Nørskov, Thomas F. Jaramillo,
  ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2018, 1, 1990–1999.
  https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.8b00090
• Electrochemically Generated Copper Carbonyl for Selective Dimethyl Carbonate Synthesis,
  Bethan J. V. Davies, Manuel Šarić, Marta C. Figueiredo, Niels C. Schjødt, Søren Dahl, Poul Georg Moses, María Escudero-Escribano, Matthias Arenz, Jan Rossmeisl,
  ACS Catal. 2018, 9, 859–866.
  https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.8b03682
• Active-Phase Formation and Stability of Gd/Pt(111) Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction: An In Situ Grazing Incidence X-Ray Diffraction Study,
  Maria Escudero-Escribano, Anders F. Pedersen, Elisabeth T. Ulrikkeholm, Kim D. Jensen, Martin H. Hansen, Jan Rossmeisl, Ifan E. L. Stephens, Ib Chorkendorff,
  Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 12280–12290.
  https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201801587
• Tuning the activity of Pt alloy electrocatalysts by means of the lanthanide contraction,
  M. Escudero-Escribano, P. Malacrida, M. H. Hansen, U. G. Vej-Hansen, A. Velazquez-Palenzuela, V. Tripkovic, J. Schiotz, J. Rossmeisl, I. E. L. Stephens, I. Chorkendorff,
  Science 2016, 352, 73–76.
  https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad8892
• Enabling direct H₂O₂ production through rational electrocatalyst design,
  Samira Siahrostami, Arnau Verdaguer-Casadevall, Mohammadreza Karamad, Davide Deiana, Paolo Malacrida, Björn Wickman, Maria Escudero-Escribano, Elisa A. Paoli, Rasmus Frydendal, Thomas W. Hansen, Ib Chorkendorff, Ifan E. L. Stephens, Jan Rossmeisl,
  Nature Materials 2013, 12, 1137–1143.
  https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3795
• Enhanced electrocatalysis of the oxygen reduction reaction based on patterning of platinum surfaces with cyanide,
  Dusan Strmcnik, María Escudero-Escribano, Kensaku Kodama, Vojislav R. Stamenkovic, Angel Cuesta, Nenad M. Marković,
  Nat. Chem. 2010, 2, 880–885.
  https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.771

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• Clara Immerwahr Award 2017,
  ChemViews Mag. 2017.
  Sandra Luber, Switzerland, honored for outstanding work in catalysis research
• Clara Immerwahr Award 2016,
  ChemViews Mag. 2016.
  Rebecca Melen, UK, honored for outstanding achievements in catalysis research
• Clara Immerwahr Award 2015,
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  Anna Company Casadevall, University of Girona, Spain, honored
• Clara Immerwahr Award 2014,
  ChemViews Mag. 2014.
  Dr. Teresa Santos-Silva, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, has been awarded for outstanding achievements in catalysis research
• The Myth of Clara Immerwahr,
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• 100th Anniversary: Clara Immerwahr’s Death,
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  A role model for her pursuit of science in spite of obstacles and for her strong moral convictions