Marc Koper is leading a successful research group in Leiden since 2005, and he brings extensive expertise in fundamental experimental and computational electrochemistry and electrocatalysis to the ANION consortium. He has been advisor (promotor) of 40 successfully defended PhD theses, one of which won prizes for the best thesis in catalysis in The Netherlands and in Europe. His group specializes in an electrochemical surface science approach to electrocatalysis, combining electrochemical methods with in situ spectroscopy, in situ surface imaging, and theoretical and computational approaches.
Marc Koper is a member of the and his work has been recognized by many exceptional distinctions, including the Faraday Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2017), the Allen J. Bard Award for Electrochemical Science of The Electrochemical Society (2020), and the Spinoza Prize (2021), which is the highest scientific distinction in the Netherlands. His international leadership role is highlighted by his election as president of the International Society of Electrochemistry in 2019, his role in many editorial boards, and his role as member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences KNAW, international Scientific Advisory Boards. He organized the ISE Annual Meeting in The Hague in 2016, the largest electrochemistry conference ever held in the Netherlands (>1600 participants). Marc Koper actively collaborates with industry and has been member of various national and European research consortia involving industrial partners (Shell, Tata Steel, Avantium, Johnson Matthey, Magneto, HyET, DeNora, BASF, Covestro, Hitachi). Together with ANION team members De Jongh, Bolhuis, Tromp, Browne, Garnett, Lohse, and Mul, he is member of the Advanced Research Center – Chemical Building Blocks Consortium ARC-CBBC.