Dr. Süleyman Er studied theoretical chemistry at Bilkent University in Turkey and obtained his PhD in Physics from the Computational Materials Science Department of University of Twente in the Netherlands. He worked as FOM Young Energy Scientist Fellow, first at the Theoretical Chemistry Group of Harvard University in the USA, and then at the Theoretical Chemistry Group of Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Dr. Er now leads the Autonomous Energy Materials Discovery [AMD] Research Group at DIFFER – Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research and at CCER – Center for Computational Energy Research, at Eindhoven, the high-tech hub of the Netherlands.