Research Stay Abroad: A better understanding of XPS

Laurin Derr is in his third year of his PhD doing his research at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in the group of Professor Rolf Schuster which is also part of POLiS – Cluster of Excellence. Like other members of the GS-EES – Graduate School Electrochemical Energy Storage, Laurin has spent his research stay abroad at Uppsala University in Sweden. There, he was in the Institute of Structural Chemistry under the supervision of Associate Professor Maria Hahlin. Why he has chosen Uppsala University, what he learned and what advice he would give to young researchers who are also planning a stay abroad is what we discussed with him.