The Partnership in International Research
and Education in Electron Chemistry and Catalysis at Interfaces (PIRE-ECCI) is an NSF-sponsored program that promotes
collaboration between US and Chinese researchers in chemistry and chemical engineering. American graduate students and
postdoctoral fellows at the University of California, Santa Barbara have the opportunity to conduct a significant part
of their research at leading Chinese academic institutions, interacting with world-renowned Chinese scientists working
in the area of surface science.
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Upcoming Events, Noteworthy Mentions
- An exploratory meeting is being planned with the IAMS center at NTU in Taipei for a possible PIRE-ECCI network expansion: Meeting Website
- The German contingent to PIRE-ECCI at Georg-August Universität (Göttingen) is hosting a summer school on Green Chemistry this September. Visit the website and apply to attend!
- A sister program to the PIRE-ECCI, which funds undergraduate research partnerships with Chinese institutes, has been approved for funding
and is called IRES-ECCI: International Research Experiences for Students in Electron Chemistry and Catalysis at Interfaces. Visit the website for more information!
- Watch PIRE director Susannah Scott give a talk for the NSF on Sustainable Energy in the US and China with reference to the PIRE-ECCI program in its second phase.
- Fellowship Applications are being accepted now on an ongoing basis!
- The PIRE-ECCI welcomes its first reverse XRV to UCSB, Lei Zhong.
- A press release was issued on 8-09-10, announcing the PIRE renewal. Read about it here.
- The NSF has renewed the PIRE-ECCI’s funding for another five years! Our annual budget for PIRE-ECCI Phase 2 will increase by 60% over Phase 1.
- We welcome our new collaborators from the Dalian University of Technology (LU Anhui), Fudan University (ZHAO Dongyuan), National Tsinghua University (XUE Qikun), Suzhou Institute of Nanotechnology and Nanobionics (ZHANG Jinping), Xiamen University (ZHENG Nanfeng)
and Zhejiang University (FAN Jie) for the second phase of the PIRE-ECCI program.
- PIRE-ECCI Phase I Director Alec Wodtke has accepted a prestigious Max-Planck-Directorship at the Karl Friedrich-Bonhoeffer-Institut and Georg-August Universität (Göttingen).
Our new ties with the University of Göttingen further strengthen PIRE-ECCI's collaborations with German research in catalysis and surface science, led by PIRE-ECCI senior investigator Matthias Scheffler (UCSB and the Fritz Haber Institut-Berlin).
- PIRE-ECCI Phase I Co-director Susannah Scott becomes the PIRE-ECCI Phase 2 Director.
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DICP Director, Xinhe Bao and UCSB Chancellor Henry Yang sign a Memorandum of Understanding
between our two institutes at the inception of PIRE-ECCI Phase I.
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