DR. RER. NAT. · PRIVATDOZENT · TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Alexey Cherevan
Moscow → Münster → Tokyo → Vienna. Fifteen years of turning light into chemistry, sixty papers, one TEDx talk, and a lab of people who count catalytic sites by the atom.
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2024
Habilitation (Privatdozent), Materials Chemistry — TU Wien
2023 — 2028
PI, FWF Cluster of Excellence “Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage”
€1.3M as PI · single-site photocatalysis and metal-organic frameworks
2023
Tenure-track Assistant Professor — TU Wien
Selected for the first cohort of TU.Tenure
2020
TEDx talk on artificial photosynthesis
10,000+ views
2019
PI, FWF stand-alone project P32801
Surface-immobilized molecular metalate clusters for photocatalysis · €379K
2015
Area Leader (Solar Fuels), Molecular Materials Chemistry — TU Wien
2014
PhD in Physical Chemistry, summa cum laude — University of Münster
Nanocarbon-inorganic hybrids for photocatalysis · research stay with Prof. K. Domen, University of Tokyo (Ewald Wicke Scholarship)
2010
MSc in Chemistry — Lomonosov Moscow State University
Funding as PI & coordinator
| PROJECT | PERIOD | AMOUNT |
|---|---|---|
| FWF Cluster of Excellence “Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage” (PI) | 2023–2028 | €1,299,805 |
| FWF Stand-Alone P32801 — metalate clusters for photocatalysis (PI) | 2020–2024 | €378,966 |
| FFG Take OFF — “H2 for aviation” (PI) | 2023–2024 | €49,000 |
| OeAD S&T — TiO₂ nanostructures for H₂ + microplastic degradation (Coord.) | 2024–2025 | €7,100 |
| OeAD S&T — flexible perovskite solar modules (Coord.) | 2022–2025 | €15,000 |
Awards & recognition
- Top-10 nominee, university-wide Best Teaching Award, TU Wien (2024) — and Faculty finalist in 2022
- Nominee, Rising Stars issue, ACS Materials Au (2022)
- Faculty nominee, Ernst Fehrer Prize (2022)
- Co-founder, Young Investigator Academy (YIA), Faculty of Technical Chemistry (2023)
- Ewald Wicke Scholarship (2012) · NRW Graduate School of Chemistry PhD fellowship (2011)
TEDx: Artificial photosynthesis
10,000+ views · TEDx TUWien 2020
Teaching
- Lecturer — Molecule-based & Self-assembled Materials (since 2017)
- Co-lecturer — Kinetics & Catalysis · Fundamentals of Chemistry · Green Chemistry: Recent Trends (since 2016–2023)
- Co-lecturer — H₂ Technologies at TU Wien (since 2025)
- Supervisor — Synthesis Lab, the largest practical course in Technical Chemistry (since 2016)