Prof. Alexei Kornyshev

Title: Old and new puzzles of the electrical double layer in concentrated and diluted ionic systems

Biography

Prof. Alexei Kornyshev
Imperial College, UK
Foreign Member of Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK)
Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry 
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology 

Professor Alexei Kornyshev is an expert in condensed matter theoretical chemical physics and its applications to biophysics, electrochemistry, nanoscience, and energy generation and storage. Through the years his particular areas of research were electron and proton transfer reactions and processes, hydration, metal/electrolyte and liquid-liquid interfaces, transport phenomena in solid electrolytes and polymer electrolyte membranes, aggregation and recognition of helical biopolymers and the structure of chiral liquid crystals, theory of modern fuel cells (PEFC/DMFC, SOFC) and super-capacitors.

His current research interests focus on:

· DNA biophysics
· Optofluidics and nanophotonics
· Molecular electronics and machines
· Ionic liquids and their applications
. Electrochemical metamaterials

He has over 300 original publications and more than 30 review articles in leading journals, filed several patents, edited 5 multi-author books and a number of special issues. He is an author of a two volume textbook "How to derive a formula", World Scientific, Vol.1 (2020), Vol.2 (2023). Alexei Kornyshev received his Master’s degree from Moscow Physical Engineering Institute (‘MIFI’) in theoretical nuclear physics. After defending his PhD in Physical and Mathematical Sciences (under the guidance of Prof. R.R. Dogonadze), he worked as Research Scientist at the Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry (Acad.Sci.), Moscow (1973 - 1991), where in 1986 he defended his D.Sci dissertation and became Leading Scientist. In 1991 he received Humboldt Prize in Electrochemistry and Physical Chemistry, and spent consequently a year at TU Munich, as Humboldt Guest Professor. He was then invited to the Research Centre Juelich, Germany, to lead a Theory Group in a new Institute for Energy Processing with a focus on fundamentals of fuel cells. In 1997 he was promoted there to Head of Division of Theoretical Physical Chemistry, and later got a joint appointment between the Research Centre Juelich and the Heinrich-Heine University of Dusseldorf as Professor of Theoretical Physics. In August 2002 he moved from Juelich-Duesseldorf to Imperial College, appointed to the Chair of Chemical Physics at the Chemistry Department, which for 5 years was supported by Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award of June 2001. Through his career he had many short term visiting appointments worldwide, Honours and Awards (see the corresponding section).

Title: Thermal transport in heterogeneous nanoscale interfaces

Biography

Prof. Fernando Bresme
Imperial College, UK
Member of the Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Prof. Fernando Bresme,Our research is concerned with the computational and theoretical investigation of the structure and dynamics of complex interfaces of chemical relevance; colloids, biopolymers, membranes and nanomaterials, which form the buiding blocks of soft materials. The interfacial physico-chemical behaviour often confers striking properties to these materials, by mediating and promoting a whole range of chemical processes. One of our main areas of interest is the investigation of transport phenomena at nanoscale interfaces. Current efforts are directed towards the development of computational tools to quantify energy transport across these interfaces, and the application of these tools to design high performance materials for energy management problems (e.g., super-insulating and highly conductive media) and nanomaterials with chemical and medical applications (e.g. catalysis, medical therapies). We are particularly interested in the investigation of novel physical concepts for energy conversion and energy recovery applications (e.g., recovery of waste heat). In our group we combine non-equilibrium and equilibrium computer simulations, non-equilibrium thermodynamics theory and experiments to investigate the equilibrium and non-equilibrium response of soft matterials.