Aude Salame

Postdoctoral researcher
Leiden University

Department

Leiden Institute of Chemistry

Contact information

Room
Gorlaeus building, DE.0.11

Email address
a.m.o.salame@lic.leidenuniv.nl

About me

I was born and raised in Paris, France. I completed my PhD in October 2024 at Université Paris Cité, where I elucidated the mechanism of the electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction to CO by an iron porphyrin using in situ and operando spectroelectrochemical techniques. In November 2024, I moved to the Netherlands to work on the development of combined electrochemistry and mass spectrometry. Since October 2025, I have been a ARC CBBC postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University.

About my research

My project, entitled “Towards Rechargeable Metal–CO₂ Batteries for Energy Storage”, is a bilateral collaboration between Shell and Leiden University that aims to assess the reversibility of the CO₂–oxalate electrochemical conversion. The objective is to investigate, at the fundamental level, the mechanisms of both the electrocatalytic reduction of CO₂ to oxalate and the electrocatalytic oxidation of oxalate back to CO₂. This study combines electrochemical measurements with in situ and operando techniques, such as differential electrochemical mass spectrometry. Ultimately, we aim to achieve a reversible system by developing a hybrid molecular/material catalyst.

Academic career

Postdoctoral experience

2024- 2025: Postdoctoral research fellow in the Leiden Institute of Chemistry at Leiden University, the Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marc Koper.

PhD

2021-2024: PhD thesis in the Laboratoire d’Electrochimie Moléculaire at Université Paris Cité, France, under the supervision of Dr. Elodie Anxolabéhère-Mallart and Prof. Marc Robert.

Early Stage Researcher

2020-2021: Master degree in the Laboratoire d’Electrochimie Moléculaire at Université Paris Cité, France, under the supervision of Prof. Marc Robert.