Prof. Dr. Michael Eikerling

Michael Eikerling is an expert for physical theory, modeling and simulation in electrochemistry. From 2003 to 2019, he was Professor for Theoretical Chemical Physics and Electrochemical Materials at Simon Fraser University, Canada, and he held a cross-appointment to the fuel cell institute of Canada’s National Research Council in Vancouver, BC, from 2003 to 2013, where he shaped a program in physical modeling of fuel cells. In May 2019, he assumed his current position as Professor at RWTH Aachen University and Director of the Institute of Energy Technologies at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, heading the division for Theory and Computation of Energy Materials (IET-3). He is the scientific coordinator of the Centre for Advanced Simulation and Analytics (CASA, est. in 2021) in Jülich and has co-created the German-Canadian Materials Acceleration Centre (GCMAC). Research at his institute integrates analytical theory and physical-mathematical modeling with quantum mechanical and classical simulations, striving to unravel the local reaction environment at interfaces, understand transport-reaction coupling in nanoporous media, decipher electrocatalytic reactions, and rationalize the structure vs. property and performance relations of complex electrodes in electrochemical devices. In 2017, he was awarded the Alexander Kuznetsov Prize for Theoretical Electrochemistry of the International Society of Electrochemistry. He is a Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry and is the recipient of the 2025 Christian Friedrich Schönbein Gold Medal of Honour awarded by the European Fuel Cell Forum (EFCF).