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prof.dr. C. Baeumer (Chris)

Associate Professor
TNW-NEM-IMS
Carré C3233
c.baeumer@utwente.nl
+31534897869
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I am passionate about materials science education and research - at the boarder between physics, chemistry and engineering. I am driven by scientific curiosity for a fundamental understanding of materials and processes and  I believe that ground-breaking science can and should address great societal changes. Currently, my research focuses on the solid/liquid interface, in particular for electrocatalysts that enable energy conversion and sustainable synthesis of chemicals and chemical fuels. 

Besides my position at the UT, I am also an associated researcher at the Peter Grünberg Institut at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany.

Before joining the UT in 2020, I was a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at Stanford University and RWTH Aachen University. I obtained my Ph.D in physics at RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich in 2016 and my M.Sc. in materials science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013.

Expertise

  • Material Science

    • Surface
    • Devices
    • Oxide
    • Oxygen Evolution
    • Thin Films
    • Electrocatalysts

  • Chemistry

    • Liquid Film

  • Physics

    • Resistive Switching

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More information about our research in the link:

https://www.utwente.nl/en/tnw/ims/research/research_baeumer/

Publications

2025

Parametric study of barium titanate gradient thin films via off-center pulsed laser deposition (2025)Journal of crystal growth, 668. Article 128313. Avila, R. A., Kiens, E., Birkhölzer, Y., Shanker, O., Coolman, T., Struik, M., Bu, Y., Baeumer, C., Rijnders, G. & Koster, G.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2025.128313Spin Matters: A Multidisciplinary Roadmap to Understanding Spin Effects in Oxygen Evolution Reaction During Water Electrolysis (2025)Advanced energy materials (E-pub ahead of print/First online). van der Minne, E., Vensaus, P., Ratovskii, V., Hariharan, S., Behrends, J., Franchini, C., Fransson, J., Dhesi, S. S., Gunkel, F., Gossing, F., Katsoukis, G., Kramm, U. I., Lingenfelder, M., Lan, Q., Kolen'ko, Y. V., Li, Y., Mohan, R. R., McCord, J., Ni, L., … Baeumer, C.https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202503556Laboratory-based in situ and operando tricolor x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (2025)Science advances, 11(34), eadw6673. van den Bosch, I. C. G., Zaman, J. U., Shterk, G., Hamed, M. H., Schneider, M., Ratovskii, V., Bu, Y., Dietrich, P. M., Koster, G. & Baeumer, C.https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adw6673Ultrafast Light-Driven Electronic and Structural Changes in LaFeO3 Perovskites Probed by Femtosecond X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy (2025)Advanced materials, 37(29). Article 2502932. Lazemi, M., Mohammad, F. J., Park, S. H., Katoch, A., Blankesteijn, H. J. F. A., Botello-Méndez, A. R., van der Minne, E., Birkhölzer, Y. A., van den Bosch, I. C. G., Kiens, E. M., Baeumer, C., Koster, G., Kwon, S., Bergmann, U. & de Groot, F. M. F.https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202502932Mechanistic Insights Into Proton and Oxygen Transport Through Ultrathin Amorphous Al2O3 and Al2O3-SiO2 Electrocatalyst Overlayers (2025)Advanced materials interfaces, 12(13). Article 2400846. Leon‐Chaparro, D., Nguyen, M. D., Baeumer, C., Mul, G. & Katsoukis, G.https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400846Data underlying the publication: Laboratory-based in situ and operando tri-color X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (2025)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. 4TU.Centre for Research Data. van den Bosch, I., Zaman, J. U., Shterk, G., Hussein Hamed, M., Schneider, M., Ratovskii, V., Bu, Y., Dietrich, P. M., Koster, G. & Baeumer, C.https://doi.org/10.4121/85b64719-1729-456f-a59d-955e7ff45b4eCorrelating reductive vanadium oxide transformations with electrochemical N2 activation and ammonia formation (2025)Physical chemistry chemical physics, 27(26), 13836-13844. Balogun, K., Adesope, Q., Amagbor, S., Tochi, A., Vass, A., Mul, G., Baeumer, C., Katsoukis, G. & Kelber, J. A.https://doi.org/10.1039/d5cp00554jQuantifying Dynamic Changes of Oxygen Nonstoichiometry and Formation of Surface Phases of SrCoOx Electrocatalysts by Operando Characterizations (2025)ACS nano, 19(14), 13999-14009. Hu, Y., Wei, L., Chen, H., Xu, Z., Shavorskiy, A., Baeumer, C. & Lu, Q.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c18105Revealing the Intrinsic Oxygen Evolution Reaction Activity of Perovskite Oxides across Conductivity Ranges Using Thin Film Model Systems (2025)ACS applied materials & interfaces, 17(14), 21110–21121. Heymann, L., van den Bosch, I. C. G., Wielens, D. H., Kurbjeweit, O., van der Minne, E., Kiens, E. M., Kaus, A., Schön, D., Menzel, S., Boukamp, B., Gunkel, F. & Baeumer, C.https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c20141

2024

Single-Source Vapor-Deposition of MA1–xFAxPbI3 Perovskite Absorbers for Solar Cells (2024)Advanced functional materials, 34(50). Article 2300588. Soto-Montero, T., Kralj, S., Soltanpoor, W., Solomon, J. S., Gómez, J. S., Zanoni, K. P. S., Paliwal, A., Bolink, H. J., Baeumer, C., Kentgens, A. P. M. & Morales-Masis, M.https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202300588

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

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