© Tiss: Alexander Karl Opitz

Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Alexander Karl Opitz has been assigned to the Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, opens an external URL in a new window (E164) of the Faculty of Technical Chemistry, opens an external URL in a new window at TU Wien since 1.4.2025 as University Professor for Solid State Electrochemistry.

Alexander Opitz studied technical chemistry at the TU Wien. In 2011 he received his PhD (with distinction) for a dissertation on "Oxygen Exchange Pathways of Platinum Model Electrodes on Yttria-stabilized Zirconia, opens an external URL in a new window". He then remained connected as a researcher at the TU Wien. He was able to gain experience abroad in 2017 during a research stay as a guest scientist at the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA). In 2018 he successfully applied for a career in Solid Electrochemistry, which he then held as a Associated Professor and completed as University Professor. The necessary Venia Docendi for the subject Electrochemistry was awarded to him in January 2022 on the basis of a habilitation thesis on "Electrochemical model experiments for an in-depth understanding of electrode reactions in solid oxide cells".

The scientific home of Alexander Opitz is the Research Unit of Technical Electrochemistry, where he has headed the Research Group for Electrochemical Energy Conversion, opens an external URL in a new window (E164-04-1) since 2014. His scientific interest is primarily in understanding electrode reactions in solid-state electrochemistry, as they are relevant in high-temperature electrolysis cells, for example.

Publications by Alexander Opitz in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.