Dr. Cuk obtained her Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Stanford University in 2007 and completed a Miller Postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley in 2010. She is currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research focuses on the fundamental mechanisms involved in converting an electric current into a storable fuel at solid-liquid (electrode-electrolyte) interfaces. To do this, she utilizes multiple time-resolved spectroscopies to probe catalytic reactions at surfaces and collaborates with theorists on the experimental observables. She currently serves on the scientific advisory board of the ARC CBBC Consortium for a Sustainable Future in the Netherlands.
Tanja's recent RASEI Activities
Probing intermediate configurations of oxygen evolution catalysis across the light spectrum
NATURE ENERGY, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01583-x Read more
Ultrafast Electronic and Vibrational Spectroscopy of Electrochemical Transformations on a Metal-Oxide Surface during Oxygen Evolution Catalysis
ACS CATALYSIS, 2024, 14, 9901-9926 Read more
Phenomenology of Intermediate Molecular Dynamics at Metal-Oxide Interfaces
ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, 2024, 75, 457-481 Read more
Formation of the oxyl’s potential energy surface by the spectral kinetics of a vibrational mode
THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 2024, 160, 164202 Read more
Assessing and Quantifying Thermodynamically Concomitant Degradation during Oxygen Evolution from Water on SrTiO3
ACS CATALYSIS, 2023, 13, 8206-8218 Read more
Moderate Electron Doping Assists in Dissociating Water on a Transition Metal Oxide Surface (n-SrTiO3)
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 2023, 127, 10, 4905-4916 Read more
RASEI Secures Funding to Pursue Collaborative Team Science Programs to Address Climate Change Challenges
Thirteen members of RASEI secured funding from the Department of Energy to participate in inter-disciplinary team science to address a range of challenges associated with combating climate change. Read more
Cuk Research Group isolates reaction step
RASEI Fellow Tanja Cuk reports, in Nature Materials, an approach that provides insights into the splitting of water to produce molecular hydrogen. Read more