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Group Leader
Early career research group: High-entropy intermetallics for electrocatalysis

Ridha Zerdoumi studied Physical Chemistry at the University of Batna, Algeria (B.Sc. in 2009), and Materials Chemistry at University of Biskra, Algeria (M.Sc. in 2012). He then worked as a lecturer at the University of Laghouat, Algeria. In 2017, he was awarded a DAAD scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service. In 2021, he obtained the title “Dr. rer. nat. “from the Technical University of Chemnitz for his research on “Intermetallic Compounds as Platform Materials in Electrocatalysis”. 
He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher on a joint project between BASF and the Technical University of Chemnitz on “Ruthenium-based intermetallic compounds for CO2RR”. In 2022, he joined the group of Prof. Schuhmann as a Post-doctoral researcher at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. His work focused on “High-throughput electrochemical characterization techniques of high-entropy thin-films and their applications in electrocatalysis.” In March 2025, he joined the chair of Materials Discovery and Interfaces as a group leader of the Early Career Research Group (ECRG) on “High-Entropy Intermetallics for Electrocatalysis”. The group is part of the Collaborative Research Center CRC 1625, which is dedicated to achieving an atomic scale understanding and control of multifunctional, compositionally complex surfaces. 

Research interest:

• Electrocatalysis and Electrochemical Energy Conversion
• Scanning prob methods (SPM): Scanning droplet cell (SDC), Scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM), and scanning electrochemical cell microscopy (SECCM).
• Ion Exchange Membranes and Mass Transport in Electromembrane Processes.
• Synthesis and characterization of Compositionally Complex Solid Solutions and Intermetallic Compounds

 Publications:

• Google Scholar
• Scopus ID: 55745845800
• ORCID: 0000-0001-7724-823X 
• Web of Science ResearcherID: AGY-2046-2022