Barbara Albert (chemist)

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Barbara Albert (born December 9, 1966 in Bad Godesberg ) is a German chemist. Since 2005 she has been Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Eduard Zintl Institute for Inorganic and Physical Chemistry at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

Life

Albert studied chemistry from 1985 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and graduated in 1990 with a diploma. This was followed by a doctorate in inorganic chemistry with Martin Jansen . In 1995/96 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Materials Research Laboratory of the University of California, Santa Barbara , with Anthony Cheetham (Feodor Lynen fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) and then became a habilitation student with Johannes Beck at the Justus Liebig University Gießen and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Lise Meitner habilitation grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia). In 2000/2001 she was a substitute professor in Giessen. In 2000 habilitated they are in Bonn and was there from 2001 lecturer before a professor at the same year University of Hamburg was where it also to 2005 Executive Director was in 2003 at the Institute of Inorganic and Applied Chemistry. Since 2005 she has been a professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt; From 2007 to 2011 she was Dean of the Department of Chemistry, from 2012 to 2014 Managing Director of the Eduard Zintl Institute for Inorganic and Physical Chemistry and from 2014 to 2016 Deputy Managing Director. She was a member of the University Assembly and Senator, and has been Vice President for Research and Young Academics at TU Darmstadt since 2020.

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She deals with solid-state chemistry and materials chemistry . Her special field of interest is the element boron and its compounds ( boride ), in 2005 she organized the 15th International Symposium of Boron and Related Materials (ISBB) in Hamburg. She is a member of the international board of trustees of the ISBB. In 2006 she published a special volume in the Journal of Solid State Chemistry . One of her works dealt with boron as an elementary challenge for experimenters and theorists.

Albert is the European editor of the journal Solid State Sciences , as well as on the advisory board of Progress in Solid State Chemistry (both Elsevier- Verlag) and Scientific Reports (Nature group).

Honors and memberships

In 1997 she received the Bennigsen-Foerder- Prize for young scientists from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and in 2000 the ADUC-Prize for post-doctoral candidates. She has been a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2016 . From 2006 to 2013 she was on the board, from which until 2010 she was chairwoman of the solid state chemistry and materials research group of the Society of German Chemists , and from 2008 to 2015 she was a member of the board, 2012/13 president, and 2011/12 and 2014/15 vice-president of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemist.

In May 2014 Barbara Albert was elected to the Supervisory Board of Evonik Industries and in 2016 to the Supervisory Board of the Schunk Group.

Barbara Albert is a member of the Scientific Commission of the Einstein Foundation (Berlin), the Kopernikus Advisory Board P2X, the Board of Trustees of the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis eV (Rostock), the MINT Research Council (Hamburg) and a reviewer for chemistry at the German Research Foundation. She is also on the court of honor of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, on the board and advisory board of the accreditation agency ASIIN eV and ASIIN Consult, on the board of trustees of manager magazin for the Hall of Fame of German research as well as on the ProcessNet technical committee of Dechema eV for inorganic-technical chemistry.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The new TU Presidium starts work in January. Echo Newspapers GmbH, accessed on August 28, 2020 .
  2. Albert, B .; Hillebrecht, H: Boron: Elementary Challenge for Experimenters and Theoreticians in Angewandte Chemie - Int. Ed. 2009, doi: 10.1002 / anie.200903246
  3. Information on the Evonik company website ( Memento of May 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 8, 2015