Ronen Gottesman

Ronen Gottesman is not currently affiliated with the Institute for Solar Fuels at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. He is an Assistant Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Chemistry, a position he has held since July 2022.12

Dr. Gottesman's research focuses on photoabsorber semiconductor materials for solar energy conversion, particularly metal oxides and oxynitrides photoelectrodes for solar water-splitting.1 His expertise includes renewable energy, photovoltaics, (photo)electrochemistry, nanomaterials synthesis, and device fabrication methods.1

Education

• Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry and Materials Science of Solar Cells from Bar-Ilan University (2010-2015)
• M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry and Sonochemistry from Bar-Ilan University (2008-2010)
• B.Sc. in Biophysics from Bar-Ilan University (2002-2005)1

Recent Activities

• Teaches a course on Solar Energy Conversion: Materials to Applications3
• Presented on the development of new photoelectrode materials for solar fuel production at the Sede Boker Symposium on Solar Energy Conversion4
• Published a paper in ACS Energy Letters on rapid radiative heating in materials discovery for solar energy conversion5

Dr. Gottesman is fluent in Hebrew and English, with elementary proficiency in Japanese.1