PI Interview with Dr Matthew Mayer, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
Dr Matthew Mayer After our recent face-to-face meeting in Dublin, Danielle Nicholson at Pintail Limited posed a set of questions to PI Dr Matthew Mayer, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. Dr Mayer is an expert on photoelectrochemical and electrocatalytic water splitting and CO2 reduction, nanomaterials synthesis, and photovoltaics. Enjoy! How and when did you first become interested in chemistry? I started my undergraduate studies (in Boise, Idaho, USA) with the goal of becoming a pharmacist. But when I took the course Organic Chemistry, something changed for me. That course makes you draw lots of molecules, thinking about their physical structure and how [...]