Maria-Magdalena Titirici

Magdalena (Magda) Titirici is a Professor of Sustainable Energy Materials at Imperial College London.

Early life and education Titirici studied chemistry at the University of Bucharest. She earned her PhD at the Technical University of Dortmund in 2005, working on molecularly imprinted polymers for her undergraduate studies. Titirici also worked at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz during her postgraduate studies. Titirici joined Queen Mary University of London in 2013 as a Reader, before being promoted to Professor in 2014. In 2019 she moved to the Chemical Engineering Department of Imperial College London, leading a multidisciplinary and diverse research group in the field of Sustainable Energy Materials.

Research Her group uses biomass and hydrothermal processes to create carbon products. She is interested in how these carbon nanomaterials produced by hydrothermal carbonisation (HTC) can be used in electrocatalytical reactions, including oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution. They also work on electrodes for energy storage in lithium and sodium ion batteries. They have published over 130 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals. She contributed to the book Global Sustainability: A Nobel Cause.

Awards 2023- Imperial College President Award and Medal for Excellent Research Team 2021 - Royal Society Kavli Medal and Lecture 2021 – Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize 2018 – Royal Society of Chemistry Corday-Morgan Prize 2016 – Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Rosenhain Medal