Christian Engelbrekt is part of the NanoChemistry Group at DTU Chemistry. He has been working with controlled synthesis of advanced nanostructures for energy applications since 2009 and has a special interest in nanomaterials formation mechanisms and advanced materials characterization. Currently, Christian’s work focuses on plasmonic photochemistry, incl. the delevopment of novel hybrid plasmonic nanomaterials, carrier dynamics in plasmonic photocatalysts, plasmon-directed materials synthesis, and plasmonic water splitting and carbon dioxide reduction.
Christian obtained his PhD degree from DTU with the thesis “Green synthesis and structural control of metal and mineral nanostructures” in 2014 supervised by professors Jingdong Zhang and Jens Ulstrup. He then worked as postdoc on the development of gold- and graphene-based nanocomposites for catalysis in energy technology. During his time as a PhD student and postdoc, he worked as a visiting scholar at Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics using synchrotron techniques to characterize nanomaterials, at Shandong University with graphene-metal oxide capacitor nanomaterials, and at Shanghai University looking at plasmonic enhancement in gold-titania hybrid nanomaterials. With a DKK 3.5 M, 3-year individual postdoc scholarship from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, Christian pursued novel composite plasmonic photocatalysts jointly at the University of California Irvine and DTU from 2016 to 2019, after which he returned to DTU.
ORCID 0000-0003-3679-3666
Positions
2020 – present Senior Researcher, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
2017 – 2020 Researcher, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
2017 – 2019 Visiting scholar, Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit, Irvine CA, United States
2016 – 2019 Postdoc, University of California Irvine, Irvine CA, United States
2014 – 2017 Postdoc, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
2015 Visiting scholar, Shandong University, Jinan, China
2013 Visiting scholar, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
2013 Visiting scholar, Shandong University, Jinan, China
2012 Visiting scholar, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Shanghai, China
Education
2011 – 2014 PhD, NanoChemistry, Technical University of Denmark
2009 – 2011 MSc, Applied Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark
2005 – 2008 BSc, Chemistry and Technology, Technical University of Denmark