Bernhard Rieger (chemist)

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Bernhard Rieger (born January 21, 1959 in Augsburg , Bavaria ) is a German chemist , professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), director of the Institute for Silicon Chemistry , consultant for petrochemical companies and owner of around 120 patent applications and patents .

Career

Rieger began studying chemistry in 1980 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) , which he graduated with honors in 1986. He then worked on the research topic of enantioselective hydrogenation under Wolfgang Beck, also at the same university. There he received his doctorate in 1988 , Dr. rer. nat. with summa cum laude . He then conducted research at the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Massachusetts under JCW Chien before returning to Germany in 1989. Here Rieger took over a research laboratory at BASF SE , Ludwigshafen am Rhein, and developed catalysts and processes for fluidized bed polymerization processes. The subject of his habilitation , which he completed in 1995 at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , was metallocene catalysts and their polymerization properties. That same year, followed by calls to the University of Groningen , the Netherlands , and the University of Ulm , where he in 1995 Professor of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry was. In 1997 he became director of the newly established Institute for Materials and Catalysis at the University of Ulm, which he headed until the end of 2006. On December 15, 2006, Rieger was appointed to the WACKER Chair for Macromolecular Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich and has since been Director of the Institute for Silicon Chemistry .

Scientific work

Rieger's research focus is catalysis in connection with polymer chemistry. The development of new catalysts offers the possibility of controlling the microstructure and thus the macroscopic properties of the polymers . His work on thermoplastic elastic polypropylene , on the use of carbon dioxide as an energy store and as a building block for new polymers as well as new synthesis strategies for biodegradable plastics found international recognition . The reactivity of this class of compounds is researched with reference to catalytically occurring reactions. The current projects deal with the catalytic production of functional and responsive materials for tailor-made surfaces and biologically active molecules. In addition, the photocatalysis for the use of CO 2 ("artificial photosynthesis") is under construction. At the Institute for Silicon Chemistry, the focus is on the field of low-valent silicon compounds. Rieger is the initiator and program director of the international graduate school IRTG 2022 "ATUMS" (Alberta / TUM International Graduate School for Functional Hybrid Materials), which has existed since 2015, in which silicon nanocomposites for (opto) electronic applications are investigated in an interdisciplinary manner - funded by the DFG and NSERC .

Rieger's scientific work is recorded in around 330 original publications and book chapters.

honors and awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Projects funded by the DFG
  2. ↑ ORCID
  3. ^ ResearcherID
  4. ↑ GDCh prizes: Wöhler Prize for Sustainable Chemistry ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the Society of German Chemists .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gdch.de
personal data
SURNAME Rieger, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg