POLiS Spokesperson Jürgen Janek on his past and future in solid-state electrochemistry

Lisa Smith
Jürgen Janek is a professor and group leader at Justus-Liebig University Giessen and a spokesperson for the successful Post-Lithium Storage Cluster of Excellence alongside Helmut Ehrenberg (KIT) and Birgit Esser (Ulm University). This program was recently granted a new seven-year funding period (from 2026 until the end of 2032) as part of the ‘Excellence Strategy’ of the Federal and State Governments of Germany, indicating the promise and critical importance of this research. Few career paths...