Harry Hoster
Prof Harry Hoster
TUM CREATE
Prof. Dr. Ing. Harry Hoster is the Principal Investigator for Electrochemistry and New Materials at TUM CREATE, Centre for Electromobility in Singapore. His team is dedicated to improving battery technology, the key to the success of electric vehicles.
Professor Hoster’s research explores the physical and chemical properties of surfaces and solids. His goal is rational design: improving electrode materials for fuel cells and batteries. Furthermore, he aims to improve battery monitoring systems by integrating laboratory methods directly into the batteries.
After receiving a degree in physics from Bonn University in 1996, Professor Hoster was awarded a fellowship by the German Fonds der Chemischen Industrie for full-time doctoral study on anode materials for methanol fuel cells (working with T. Iwasita and W. Vielstich in Munich).
After working on a postdoctoral research project in São Paulo, in 2003 he set up a surface science and electrochemistry research group at the Institute of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis under Professor R.J. Behm in Ulm. Having acquired his postdoctoral teaching qualification (venia legendi/habilitation) in physical chemistry in 2010, he assumed the position of associate professor at the Institute of Technical Electrochemistry at TUM. Since 2011 he has been Scientific Director of TUM CREATE in Singapore. Professor Hoster is an Associate Professor in the Technical Electrochemistry department at the Technische Universität München in Munich, Germany and at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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