Meet some of the authors of the winning paper

Redox-active, porous pyrene tetraone dendritic polymers as cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries

Lucas Ueberricke, Felix Mildner, Yuquan Wu, Elisa Thauer, Tom Wickenhäuser, Wen-Shan Zhang, Yana Vaynzof, Sven M. Elbert, Rasmus R. Schröder, Rüdiger Klingeler and Michael Mastalerz

	Lucas Ueberricke studied chemistry at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany and at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. After obtaining his B. Sc. (2013) and M.Sc. (2017), he continued with his PhD studies under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Michael Mastalerz in Heidelberg, where he graduated with summa cum laude in 2021. He then joined the group of Prof. Dr. Atsushi Wakamiya at Kyoto University, Japan, for postdoctoral research on self-assembled hole-extracting monolayers for perovskite solar cells. Since 2022 he is working as senior researcher at Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd. (NEG) in Otsu, Japan, where he is investigating crystallization phenomena in glasses.
	Felix graduated from the University Heidelberg in 2019 with an BSc in Chemistry and from Imperial College London in 2020 with an MRes in Nanomaterials. During his masters project he investigated silver spill-over at electrified solid state interfaces in the context of Memristors using ab initio methods. For his PhD, Felix is working with Prof Nicholas Harrison at Imperial College to study the design principles of high efficiency photocathode materials using ab initio methods and the quantum mechanical modelling of photoemission processes. Novel photocathode materials are necessary for the operation of next generational light sources and free electron lasers (FELs).
	Yana Vaynzof is the Chair for Emerging Electronic Technologies at the Technical University Dresden (TUD) and the director of the Institute for Emerging Electronic Technologies at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW). Yana Vaynzof is the recipient of a number of fellowships and awards, including the ERC Starting and Consolidator Grants. Her research interests lie in the field of emerging photovoltaics focusing on the study of material and device physics of organic, quantum dot and perovskite solar cells by integrating device fabrication with the application and development of advanced spectroscopic methods.
	Professor Klingeler is a Professor of experimental physics at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. His research group focuses on correlated quantum materials, applying fundamental studies on thermodynamic response functions down to MilliKelvin temperatures and up to high magnetic fields. Their work on unconventional superconductivity, electronic nemantic order and quantum magnetism challenge standard theories, extending our understanding of quantum many-body systems.
	Professor Mastalerz has been based in the Organic Chemistry Institute at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg since 2013. His research interests cover organic porous materials, crystal engineering and self-assembly, supramolecular chemistry, and non-planar extended aromatic molecules.