ESMAEIL DOUST KHAH HERAGH

Esmail Doustkhah received his PhD in 2017. During his PhD, he was awarded several prizes, scholarships, and internships, including a visiting research position and an internship at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. In 2018, he was accepted as a post-doctoral researcher at NIMS, working on mesoporous and 2D materials. In late 2019, he was awarded the JSPS fellowship in Japan. From 2022-2023, He was awarded a Marie-Curie Horizon-TUBITAK co-funded fellowship and joined Koç University as principal investigator. During this period, he investigated layered titanates' photocatalytic and photoelectrocatalytic properties with single-atom loading and heterojunction strategies. His current research interests focus on developing new nanoporous and layered materials and studying their (photo)(electro)catalytic features. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Awards:

2021-2024-Listed as top 2% researchers in chemistry according to the Standford University Ranking 2021-MRC-Horizon Fellowship at Turkey, Koc University 2020-JSPS fellowship from Japan Society for Promotion of Science at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Projects:

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;

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Postdoctoral grant (2020-2022)<span style="font-size:9.0pt;

font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> (Role:

PI)<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;

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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:

Arial">Place of research:<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:

"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> National Institute

for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan

<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:

Arial">Annual fund:<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;

mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> 2,000,000 JPY

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Arial">Research title:<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;

mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> Creation of Porous/Black Titania Nanosheet

Photocatalyst by Bursting Exfoliation of Layered Titanate

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;

mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">2-TUBITAK-Horizon Co-fund grant (2022-2023), (Role:

PI)

<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;

mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Place of research: <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:

Arial">Koç University, Türkiye

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;

mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Annual fund:<span style="font-size:10.0pt;

font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> 9600

Euro

<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;

mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Research title: <span style="font-size:

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of single atom supported layered mesoporous layered titanate black layered

titanate for H₂ generation and CO₂ fixation<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:

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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;

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CONCERT-Japan 2022, (2023-2026) (Role: PI)<span style="font-size:

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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;

mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Attending partners: (BSC-CNS) Spain, (RIKEN

Institute) Japan, Istinye University (Türkiye)

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;

mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Annual fund (only for the Turkish partner): ~30,000

USD

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;

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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;

mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">4-STI Joint Call for Proposals: Circular Economy

& Clean, Accessible and Secure Energy Supply (2025-2027)<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:

Arial">,

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;

mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Title:<span style="font-size:10.0pt;

font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> Circular

economy for waste to energy conversion: local plastic waste upcycling to

multifunctional catalysts for green H₂ generation

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;

mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Attending PIs:<span style="font-size:

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Czech Republic (FZU), Austria (TU Wiena), Türkiye (Istinye University)

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;

mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Annual fund (only for the Turkish partner): ~90,000

EURO

<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei UI",sans-serif;

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mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Role:<span style="font-size:10.0pt;

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Coordinator