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Dominik Wierzbicki

TES Lead Beamline Scientist, Spectroscopy Program, National Synchrotron Light Source II

Brookhaven National Laboratory

National Synchrotron Light Source II
Bldg. 743, Room 108
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-5169
dwierzbic2@bnl.gov

Research Interests:

Synthesis of catalysts, including zeolites and hydrotalcites, and evaluation of their catalytic activity in reactions such as CO₂ hydrogenation and high-pressure CH₄ valorization. I try to gain a deeper understanding of active sites and reaction mechanisms using in situ and operando characterization techniques, such as XAS, XES, IR or XRD.

Education | Appointments | Publications | Highlights

Education

2019 Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, cotutelle program - Sorbonne University and AGH University of Science and Technology

Professional Appointments

2023 - till now Assistant Physicist, NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory

2022 - 2023 Research Associate, NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory

2019 - 2022 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Paul Scherrer Institute

2016 - 2019 Researching and Teaching Assistant, AGH University of Science and Technology

Selected Publications

Lee J, Zhou S, Ferrari VC, et al (2025) Halide segregation to boost all-solid-state lithium-chalcogen batteries. Science 388:724–729. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adt1882
Wang D, Gwalani B, Wierzbicki D, et al (2025) Overcoming the conversion reaction limitation at three-phase interfaces using mixed conductors towards energy-dense solid-state Li–S batteries. Nature Materials 24:243–251. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-024-02057-x
Liu S, Dun C, Xiong L, et al (2025) Entropy-Driven Structural Evolution in Ceramic Oxides. Journal of the American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c06254
Hu J, Pincus LN, Wierzbicki D, et al (2025) Carbon Mineralization of Sulfate Wastes Containing Pb: Synchrotron Pb M3-Edge XANES Analysis of Simultaneous Heavy Metal and Carbon Sequestration. Environmental Science & Technology 59:7366–7376. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5c01640
Truszkiewicz E, Klimaszewska K, Gauze E, et al (2025) Catalytic CO2 Methanation Over Modified Carbon-Supported Ruthenium: The Influence of the Support Type on the Properties and Activity of the Catalyst. Topics in Catalysis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-025-02144-6
Liu S, Dun C, Yang F, et al (2024) A general flame aerosol route to kinetically stabilized metal-organic frameworks. Nature Communications 15:. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53678-4
Tayal A, Coburn DS, Abel D, et al (2024) Five-analyzer Johann spectrometer for hard X-ray photon-in/photon-out spectroscopy at the Inner Shell Spectroscopy beamline at NSLS-II: design, alignment and data acquisition. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 31:1609–1621. https://doi.org/10.1107/s1600577524009342
Jiménez JD, Lustemberg PG, Danielis M, et al (2024) From Methane to Methanol: Pd-iC-CeO2 Catalysts Engineered for High Selectivity via Mechanochemical Synthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society 146:25986–25999. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c04815
Barba-Nieto I, Müller AV, Titus CJ, et al (2024) Formal Oxidation States and Coordination Environments in the Catalytic Reduction of CO to Methanol. ACS Energy Letters 9:3815–3817. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.4c01269
Ji T, Tu Q, Zhao Y, et al (2024) Three-step thermodynamic vs. two-step kinetics-limited sulfur reactions in all-solid-state sodium batteries. Energy & Environmental Science 17:9255–9267. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ee03160a