Director of the Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces,
Full Professor at the University of Potsdam
Research Campus-Golm, D-14424 Potsdam, Germany,
[email protected]
Education:
- 1978 Abitur, Rhabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium Mainz
- WS 1978/79 Studies of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Mainz
- June 1983 Diploma of Chemistry
- July 1985 Doctorate of natural sciences (summa cum laude) with Prof. H. Sillescu
- July 1985 Hochschulassistent (assistant professor) in Mainz
- January 1990 Habilitation in physical chemistry: "Microgels with a special architecture"
- February 1991 Hochschuldozent (associate professor) in Mainz
- September 1991 Full Professor at the Philipps-Universität in Marburg
- October 1993 Director for “Colloid Chemistry” at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Full Professor at the University of Potsdam/Germany
Awards:
- 1981 Member of the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes"
- 1983 Scholarship of the Funds of the Chemical Industry of Germany
- 1984 Adolf-Todt-Scholarship
- 1986 Science Award of the "Freunde der Universität Mainz"
- 1988 Science Award of the "Böhringer-Ingelheim-Foundation"
- 1990 Gerhard-Hess prize of the German science foundation
- 1992 Chemiedozentenpreis of the Fonds of the Chemical Industry of Germany
- 1997 Honorary degree (Dr. sci. h. c.) of Clarkson University Potsdam/New York
- 1998 Guest Professor in Lovain La Neuve/Belgium
- 2000 Member of the "Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften"
- 2003 Goldschmidt-Elhuyar-Award of the Real Sociedad Espanola de Quimica
- 2005 Honorary Guest Professor at Hefei University/P. R. China
- 2005 Alfrey Turner visiting professorship at Michigan Molecular Institute
- 2005 Guest Professor at Paris V/Jussieu in Paris/France
- 2005-now ISI World Top 50 Material Science, H-Index 161, ca 100000 citations
- 2006 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry /UK
- 2007 Römer Lecture LMU München, Staudinger-Durrer Lecture ETH Zürich
- 2008 ERC Senior Excellence Grant
- 2009 Gold Medal of the Macro Group UK
- 2010 “Kolkhoff-Lecture Series” at the University of Minnesota
- 2011 Grignard-Wittig Award of the French Chemical Society
- 2011 Honorary Doctorate of the University of Stockholm
- 2014 Friedrich Bergius Award of the Evonik Co.
- 2015 External Member of the Swedish Academy of Engineering
- 2016 Honorary Guest Professor at Jiao Tong University/Shanghai
- 2016 Humboldt-Gay Lussac Award of the French Academy of Sciences
- 2016 Liebig Medal
- 2018 Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse der BRD
- 2020 Staudinger Award of the GdCh
- 2020 ERC Senior Excellence Grant (2nd time)
Selected activities
- Editorial board member of "Colloid & Polymer Science”, “Small”, "Progress in Polymer Science", "Soft Matter", “Chemistry of Materials”, “EES”, “Materials Horizon”, Executive Board Member of Macromolecular Journals of Wiley-VCH
- Chair of the Council “Nanotechnology” of the World Economic Forum
- Member of the Berlin Brandenburgische Academy of Sciences (2010 – 2015 chairperson of natural sciences)
- more than 200 completed PhD theses, 60 former coworkers hold leading Professorships, worldwide
- A larger number of industrial collaborations and consulting activities, including BASF, Evonik, Firmenich, Carbon Solution, more than 90 patents
Scientific Expertise
- Self-Organization and self-assembly of organic and inorganic matter
- Porous Polymers
- Biomimetic Materials
- Chemistry of the Energy and Raw Material Change
- Green Polymers and Materials
- Metal free Catalysis, electrocatalysis
- Metal Free Artificial Photocatalysis
