Dr. Daniel Grave

I was born in the United States and grew up in Pittsburgh. I did my undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University and then my PhD at Penn State University, both in Materials Science & Engineering. In 2014, I made Aliyah to Israel and joined the Technion as a postdoc working on photoelectrochemical solar water splitting for hydrogen generation.

My research focuses on developing materials and devices for renewable solar energy conversion and storage. In one hour, more energy from the sun reaches the earth’s surface than is used by everyone in the world for one year. Our goal is to harness this energy to produce clean, renewable fuels such as hydrogen. Our lab’s research is multidisciplinary, incorporating thin film growth, semiconductor physics, and electrochemistry in order to understand and overcome the fundamental material challenges standing in the way of efficient solar to fuel conversion.