ReisnerLab
@reisnerlab.bsky.social
Research laboratory at Cambridge University. Our work focuses on artificial photosynthesis to make renewable fuels.☀️☀️PhD-run account.
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📢📢📢 We're hiring! 📢📢📢
The @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social Department is looking for an Assistant Professor in Solar Chemical Technologies ☀️
Our group is now accepting a #postdoc position in #microbiology and #PhD applications to start in October 2026 🎓
Find more here:
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The @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social Department is looking for an Assistant Professor in Solar Chemical Technologies ☀️
Our group is now accepting a #postdoc position in #microbiology and #PhD applications to start in October 2026 🎓
Find more here:
lnkd.in/edrCTYiB
Ready for new #sun-(#fun)-driven #science? ☀️😎
The @reisnerlab.bsky.social is, with a renewed team ready to rock in the exciting academic year ahead 💪💪
Stay tuned for more creative works soon to be unleashed by these beautiful people ☀️⚡️🧪🌱🦠
The @reisnerlab.bsky.social is, with a renewed team ready to rock in the exciting academic year ahead 💪💪
Stay tuned for more creative works soon to be unleashed by these beautiful people ☀️⚡️🧪🌱🦠
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Ready for new #sun-(#fun)-driven #science? ☀️😎
The @reisnerlab.bsky.social is, with a renewed team ready to rock in the exciting academic year ahead 💪💪
Stay tuned for more creative works soon to be unleashed by these beautiful people ☀️⚡️🧪🌱🦠
The @reisnerlab.bsky.social is, with a renewed team ready to rock in the exciting academic year ahead 💪💪
Stay tuned for more creative works soon to be unleashed by these beautiful people ☀️⚡️🧪🌱🦠
Our first #PhD graduate completing a full journey into #biohybrids! ☀️⚡️🦠
Loads of challenges, patience, and a toolkit of skills developed from #bacteria culturing 🦠to machine learning for data analysis 🖥️
Congratulations Dr Marion Short and all the best for your future 🥳🥳
Loads of challenges, patience, and a toolkit of skills developed from #bacteria culturing 🦠to machine learning for data analysis 🖥️
Congratulations Dr Marion Short and all the best for your future 🥳🥳
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Our first #PhD graduate completing a full journey into #biohybrids! ☀️⚡️🦠
Loads of challenges, patience, and a toolkit of skills developed from #bacteria culturing 🦠to machine learning for data analysis 🖥️
Congratulations Dr Marion Short and all the best for your future 🥳🥳
Loads of challenges, patience, and a toolkit of skills developed from #bacteria culturing 🦠to machine learning for data analysis 🖥️
Congratulations Dr Marion Short and all the best for your future 🥳🥳
📢📢📢 We're hiring! 📢📢📢
The @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social Department is looking for an Assistant Professor in Solar Chemical Technologies ☀️
Our group is now accepting a #postdoc position in #microbiology and #PhD applications to start in October 2026 🎓
Find more here:
lnkd.in/edrCTYiB
The @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social Department is looking for an Assistant Professor in Solar Chemical Technologies ☀️
Our group is now accepting a #postdoc position in #microbiology and #PhD applications to start in October 2026 🎓
Find more here:
lnkd.in/edrCTYiB
November 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
📢📢📢 We're hiring! 📢📢📢
The @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social Department is looking for an Assistant Professor in Solar Chemical Technologies ☀️
Our group is now accepting a #postdoc position in #microbiology and #PhD applications to start in October 2026 🎓
Find more here:
lnkd.in/edrCTYiB
The @chemistrycambridge.bsky.social Department is looking for an Assistant Professor in Solar Chemical Technologies ☀️
Our group is now accepting a #postdoc position in #microbiology and #PhD applications to start in October 2026 🎓
Find more here:
lnkd.in/edrCTYiB
1⃣ photocatalyst☀️
1⃣ oxidation
4⃣ reductions (make your choice ♠️♥️♣️♦️)
Lignin reforming with tunable reductive selectivity: C-O cleavage, #H2, #syngas or #formate synthesis 🎯 now in @jacs.acspublications.org
Congrats Lu, Yongpeng and all co-authors👏👏
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
1⃣ oxidation
4⃣ reductions (make your choice ♠️♥️♣️♦️)
Lignin reforming with tunable reductive selectivity: C-O cleavage, #H2, #syngas or #formate synthesis 🎯 now in @jacs.acspublications.org
Congrats Lu, Yongpeng and all co-authors👏👏
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Solar Lignin Reforming with Tunable Selectivity Using a Hybrid Photocatalyst in Aqueous Solution
The valorization of lignin provides an important means to access sustainable base chemicals, but current approaches are hampered by the lack of selective and scalable systems in aqueous solution. Here...
pubs.acs.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
1⃣ photocatalyst☀️
1⃣ oxidation
4⃣ reductions (make your choice ♠️♥️♣️♦️)
Lignin reforming with tunable reductive selectivity: C-O cleavage, #H2, #syngas or #formate synthesis 🎯 now in @jacs.acspublications.org
Congrats Lu, Yongpeng and all co-authors👏👏
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
1⃣ oxidation
4⃣ reductions (make your choice ♠️♥️♣️♦️)
Lignin reforming with tunable reductive selectivity: C-O cleavage, #H2, #syngas or #formate synthesis 🎯 now in @jacs.acspublications.org
Congrats Lu, Yongpeng and all co-authors👏👏
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Congratulations to the master of #carbon dots of the Reisner Lab, Dr Dongseok Kim 🥳🥳
4 years bravely spent demonstrating huge advances in the use of an emerging, #sustainable #photocatalytic material ⚫️☀️🌱⚫️
We wish you all the best for your future, Kim 🤗
#phdlife #PhDone
4 years bravely spent demonstrating huge advances in the use of an emerging, #sustainable #photocatalytic material ⚫️☀️🌱⚫️
We wish you all the best for your future, Kim 🤗
#phdlife #PhDone
November 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Congratulations to the master of #carbon dots of the Reisner Lab, Dr Dongseok Kim 🥳🥳
4 years bravely spent demonstrating huge advances in the use of an emerging, #sustainable #photocatalytic material ⚫️☀️🌱⚫️
We wish you all the best for your future, Kim 🤗
#phdlife #PhDone
4 years bravely spent demonstrating huge advances in the use of an emerging, #sustainable #photocatalytic material ⚫️☀️🌱⚫️
We wish you all the best for your future, Kim 🤗
#phdlife #PhDone
To expand the expertise of our group, we also welcome our new #postdoc Xinbang Wu 🤗
He'll work on one-pot #depolymerization of #polyurethane waste using #photoelectrochemical methods ♻️☀️⚡️
Besides being an excellent #scientist, Xinbang is also a passionate #guitarist 🎸🎶
He'll work on one-pot #depolymerization of #polyurethane waste using #photoelectrochemical methods ♻️☀️⚡️
Besides being an excellent #scientist, Xinbang is also a passionate #guitarist 🎸🎶
October 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
To expand the expertise of our group, we also welcome our new #postdoc Xinbang Wu 🤗
He'll work on one-pot #depolymerization of #polyurethane waste using #photoelectrochemical methods ♻️☀️⚡️
Besides being an excellent #scientist, Xinbang is also a passionate #guitarist 🎸🎶
He'll work on one-pot #depolymerization of #polyurethane waste using #photoelectrochemical methods ♻️☀️⚡️
Besides being an excellent #scientist, Xinbang is also a passionate #guitarist 🎸🎶
One more #PhD student joining our solar team 🌞
Qingxin will explore new catalysts for #photoelectrochemical devices ☀️⚡️
When not playing with #light and #electrodes, she enjoys playing the #piano, learning #German and going to performances and #exhibitions 🎹🖼️
Qingxin will explore new catalysts for #photoelectrochemical devices ☀️⚡️
When not playing with #light and #electrodes, she enjoys playing the #piano, learning #German and going to performances and #exhibitions 🎹🖼️
October 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
One more #PhD student joining our solar team 🌞
Qingxin will explore new catalysts for #photoelectrochemical devices ☀️⚡️
When not playing with #light and #electrodes, she enjoys playing the #piano, learning #German and going to performances and #exhibitions 🎹🖼️
Qingxin will explore new catalysts for #photoelectrochemical devices ☀️⚡️
When not playing with #light and #electrodes, she enjoys playing the #piano, learning #German and going to performances and #exhibitions 🎹🖼️
The @reisnerlab.bsky.social wishes to honour and acknowledge the achievements of black people in the occasion of the #BlackHistory month ✊⚫️
Thanks to our PhD student Kay for sharing some insightful reflections on how much #diversity is powerful in #science 🤝🥼
Thanks to our PhD student Kay for sharing some insightful reflections on how much #diversity is powerful in #science 🤝🥼
October 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The @reisnerlab.bsky.social wishes to honour and acknowledge the achievements of black people in the occasion of the #BlackHistory month ✊⚫️
Thanks to our PhD student Kay for sharing some insightful reflections on how much #diversity is powerful in #science 🤝🥼
Thanks to our PhD student Kay for sharing some insightful reflections on how much #diversity is powerful in #science 🤝🥼
Our favourite #bioengineer Irina is leaving our group for exciting new beginnings 🤗
Irina was awarded an Innovate UK grant for her start-up, Cambridge Molecular Computers Ltd, bridging #DNA programmability and #bioinformatics 🦠💻
All the best for your new adventure, Irina 💪
Irina was awarded an Innovate UK grant for her start-up, Cambridge Molecular Computers Ltd, bridging #DNA programmability and #bioinformatics 🦠💻
All the best for your new adventure, Irina 💪
October 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Our favourite #bioengineer Irina is leaving our group for exciting new beginnings 🤗
Irina was awarded an Innovate UK grant for her start-up, Cambridge Molecular Computers Ltd, bridging #DNA programmability and #bioinformatics 🦠💻
All the best for your new adventure, Irina 💪
Irina was awarded an Innovate UK grant for her start-up, Cambridge Molecular Computers Ltd, bridging #DNA programmability and #bioinformatics 🦠💻
All the best for your new adventure, Irina 💪
#OPV and #enzymes combined in a semi-artificial leaf for selective #CO2-to-#formate conversion ☀️🍃
Read here our latest work by @celineyeungws.bsky.social and Yongpeng Liu on Joule by @cellpress.bsky.social 🎉🎉
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Read here our latest work by @celineyeungws.bsky.social and Yongpeng Liu on Joule by @cellpress.bsky.social 🎉🎉
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Semi-artificial leaf interfacing organic semiconductors and enzymes for solar chemical synthesis
Photoelectrochemical biohybrids combine the advantages of light-harvesting semiconductors and biocatalysts into a single compact device. However, limi…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
#OPV and #enzymes combined in a semi-artificial leaf for selective #CO2-to-#formate conversion ☀️🍃
Read here our latest work by @celineyeungws.bsky.social and Yongpeng Liu on Joule by @cellpress.bsky.social 🎉🎉
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Read here our latest work by @celineyeungws.bsky.social and Yongpeng Liu on Joule by @cellpress.bsky.social 🎉🎉
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Nice to re-connect with the University #alumni community 🤝
Erwin gave a talk to update @cam.ac.uk graduates on the exciting #science that our Department keeps fostering 🧪 🚀
Erwin gave a talk to update @cam.ac.uk graduates on the exciting #science that our Department keeps fostering 🧪 🚀
September 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Nice to re-connect with the University #alumni community 🤝
Erwin gave a talk to update @cam.ac.uk graduates on the exciting #science that our Department keeps fostering 🧪 🚀
Erwin gave a talk to update @cam.ac.uk graduates on the exciting #science that our Department keeps fostering 🧪 🚀
#COF and CNx join forces for scalable #photoreforming 💪🍃
Check our latest work led by Suvendu on covalent organic frameworks-carbon nitride Z-scheme for the photoreforming of #plastic and #biomass ☀️
doi.org/10.1002/adma...
Check our latest work led by Suvendu on covalent organic frameworks-carbon nitride Z-scheme for the photoreforming of #plastic and #biomass ☀️
doi.org/10.1002/adma...
Covalent Organic Framework and Carbon Nitride Composite for Scalable Solar Reforming
A modular composite, containing a covalent organic framework, indium tin oxide, carbon nitride and nickel based molecular catalyst, enables solar reforming under neutral aqueous conditions, convertin....
doi.org
September 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
#COF and CNx join forces for scalable #photoreforming 💪🍃
Check our latest work led by Suvendu on covalent organic frameworks-carbon nitride Z-scheme for the photoreforming of #plastic and #biomass ☀️
doi.org/10.1002/adma...
Check our latest work led by Suvendu on covalent organic frameworks-carbon nitride Z-scheme for the photoreforming of #plastic and #biomass ☀️
doi.org/10.1002/adma...
Design a semi-artificial flow #electrolyzer⚡️, converge #CO2 and #plastic into #formate➡️⛽️⬅️, then use it as a C1 block for #light-driven #hydrocarboxylation💡🧪
That's the latest work by Beverly and Santiago, just published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social 🥳🥳
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
That's the latest work by Beverly and Santiago, just published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social 🥳🥳
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Enzymatic Flow Electrolyzer for CO2 and Waste Comproportionation to Formate and Its Use in Photocatalytic Alkene Hydrocarboxylation
A flow electrolyzer employing formate dehydrogenase on a porous TiO2-carbon felt cathode is developed for paired electrolysis of CO2 and waste (plastic and biomass) to produce formate. The electrolyz...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Design a semi-artificial flow #electrolyzer⚡️, converge #CO2 and #plastic into #formate➡️⛽️⬅️, then use it as a C1 block for #light-driven #hydrocarboxylation💡🧪
That's the latest work by Beverly and Santiago, just published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social 🥳🥳
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
That's the latest work by Beverly and Santiago, just published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social 🥳🥳
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#Connecting with our #alumni🔗
Carla Casadevall (2020-2022) enthusiastically worked on #carbon-based materials for #photocatalysis 💪🌱☀️
Now group leader at @iciq.org, her mission is turning sunlight into chemicals with nanoreactors 🔍
Here her #memories of the @reisnerlab.bsky.social
Carla Casadevall (2020-2022) enthusiastically worked on #carbon-based materials for #photocatalysis 💪🌱☀️
Now group leader at @iciq.org, her mission is turning sunlight into chemicals with nanoreactors 🔍
Here her #memories of the @reisnerlab.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
#Connecting with our #alumni🔗
Carla Casadevall (2020-2022) enthusiastically worked on #carbon-based materials for #photocatalysis 💪🌱☀️
Now group leader at @iciq.org, her mission is turning sunlight into chemicals with nanoreactors 🔍
Here her #memories of the @reisnerlab.bsky.social
Carla Casadevall (2020-2022) enthusiastically worked on #carbon-based materials for #photocatalysis 💪🌱☀️
Now group leader at @iciq.org, her mission is turning sunlight into chemicals with nanoreactors 🔍
Here her #memories of the @reisnerlab.bsky.social
#Connecting with our #alumni 🔗
We remember Qian Wang for her many contributions as a postdoc in our group (2018-2021) 🫴☀️
Today, she's happily leading her own #research group as a full #professor at @en.nagoya-u.ac.jp
🌸
Here are some of her #memories of the
@reisnerlab.bsky.social
We remember Qian Wang for her many contributions as a postdoc in our group (2018-2021) 🫴☀️
Today, she's happily leading her own #research group as a full #professor at @en.nagoya-u.ac.jp
🌸
Here are some of her #memories of the
@reisnerlab.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
#Connecting with our #alumni 🔗
We remember Qian Wang for her many contributions as a postdoc in our group (2018-2021) 🫴☀️
Today, she's happily leading her own #research group as a full #professor at @en.nagoya-u.ac.jp
🌸
Here are some of her #memories of the
@reisnerlab.bsky.social
We remember Qian Wang for her many contributions as a postdoc in our group (2018-2021) 🫴☀️
Today, she's happily leading her own #research group as a full #professor at @en.nagoya-u.ac.jp
🌸
Here are some of her #memories of the
@reisnerlab.bsky.social
Great week enjoying the breeze on Lake Como in Italy at the International School on Material Interfaces for Engineering Living Systems, where Glenn presented his results on Organic #Semiconductors-#Bacteria #Biohybrids 🥤🦠☀️
September 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Great week enjoying the breeze on Lake Como in Italy at the International School on Material Interfaces for Engineering Living Systems, where Glenn presented his results on Organic #Semiconductors-#Bacteria #Biohybrids 🥤🦠☀️
It was great to celebrate 15 years of the @reisnerlab.bsky.social with our alumni! 🥳
Inspiring stories of their paths since they left our #sun-driven lab in Cambridge at our symposium in St John's College and fun at our Sunday #BBQ ☀️🍔
Can't wait to reunite a wider #family of alumni next time!
Inspiring stories of their paths since they left our #sun-driven lab in Cambridge at our symposium in St John's College and fun at our Sunday #BBQ ☀️🍔
Can't wait to reunite a wider #family of alumni next time!
September 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
It was great to celebrate 15 years of the @reisnerlab.bsky.social with our alumni! 🥳
Inspiring stories of their paths since they left our #sun-driven lab in Cambridge at our symposium in St John's College and fun at our Sunday #BBQ ☀️🍔
Can't wait to reunite a wider #family of alumni next time!
Inspiring stories of their paths since they left our #sun-driven lab in Cambridge at our symposium in St John's College and fun at our Sunday #BBQ ☀️🍔
Can't wait to reunite a wider #family of alumni next time!
Great opportunity to work at the interface between #microbiology, #photocatalysis and #electrocatalysis as a project coordinator of our recently EIC-funded #sunlight-to-food project ☀️➡️🍔 led by @biophotoelectro.bsky.social
We have a project coordinator role open for a new EIC consortium project SOLARSPOON. It is suitable for anyone with a Masters or PhD www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/project...
Do you know anyone who might be suitable? Please let me know :)
Do you know anyone who might be suitable? Please let me know :)
Project Coordinator and Developer (full time or part time)
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, and highly organised person for a newly created role to act as coordinator and developer for the new European Innovation Council-funded
www.cam.ac.uk
September 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Great opportunity to work at the interface between #microbiology, #photocatalysis and #electrocatalysis as a project coordinator of our recently EIC-funded #sunlight-to-food project ☀️➡️🍔 led by @biophotoelectro.bsky.social
Finally, the final plenary talk speaker, and a notable member of the @reisnerlab.bsky.social received the Tilden Prize from the @rsc.org 🏆
Congratulations, Erwin 👏👏🥳
#ISF2025
Congratulations, Erwin 👏👏🥳
#ISF2025
September 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Finally, the final plenary talk speaker, and a notable member of the @reisnerlab.bsky.social received the Tilden Prize from the @rsc.org 🏆
Congratulations, Erwin 👏👏🥳
#ISF2025
Congratulations, Erwin 👏👏🥳
#ISF2025
Recently graduated, jointly supervised by our and @biophotoelectro.bsky.social's lab, Rachel Egan summarises her thorough PhD exploration on wired photosynthetic #cyanobacterias on #electrodes 👏👏🦠⚡️
@rsc.org #ISF2025
@rsc.org #ISF2025
September 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Recently graduated, jointly supervised by our and @biophotoelectro.bsky.social's lab, Rachel Egan summarises her thorough PhD exploration on wired photosynthetic #cyanobacterias on #electrodes 👏👏🦠⚡️
@rsc.org #ISF2025
@rsc.org #ISF2025
One of our #bio-hybrid enthusiast alumni, Shafeer Kalathil, now Assistant Professor at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, giving updates on his independent research since he left our lab 🦠☀️
@rsc.org #ISF2025
@rsc.org #ISF2025
September 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
One of our #bio-hybrid enthusiast alumni, Shafeer Kalathil, now Assistant Professor at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, giving updates on his independent research since he left our lab 🦠☀️
@rsc.org #ISF2025
@rsc.org #ISF2025
Now lecturer at @qmul.bsky.social, Lin Su still finds it hard to detach from the @reisnerlab.bsky.social ❤️
He joined us to share his experience with E. coli and artificial #photosynthesis 🦠🍃🌞
@rsc.org #ISF2025
He joined us to share his experience with E. coli and artificial #photosynthesis 🦠🍃🌞
@rsc.org #ISF2025
September 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Now lecturer at @qmul.bsky.social, Lin Su still finds it hard to detach from the @reisnerlab.bsky.social ❤️
He joined us to share his experience with E. coli and artificial #photosynthesis 🦠🍃🌞
@rsc.org #ISF2025
He joined us to share his experience with E. coli and artificial #photosynthesis 🦠🍃🌞
@rsc.org #ISF2025
