Ferdi Schüth
Ferdi Schüth , also Franz-Ferdinand Schüth, (born July 8, 1960 in Allagen , now Warstein ) is a German chemist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim / Ruhr. Since June 2014, Schüth has been Vice President of the Max Planck Society for a term of six years .
Life
1970 to 1978 he attended the Aldegrever grammar school in Soest . From 1978 to 1984 he studied chemistry, from 1983 to 1988 additionally law at the University of Münster . In 1984 he obtained his diploma in chemistry, in 1989 he passed the first state examination in law. In 1988 he received his doctorate in Münster with a thesis on physical chemistry. From 1988 to 1989 he did research in the Department of Technical Chemistry at the University of Minneapolis / USA at LD Schmidt. From 1989 to 1994 he was a research assistant at the University of Mainz with Klaus Unger . He spent a five-month research stay as Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara with Galen Stucky . He completed his habilitation in Mainz in 1995.
From 1995 to 1998 he was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Frankfurt .
Since 1998 he has been Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim / Ruhr.
Within the German chemical organizations, Ferdi Schüth coordinated a position paper "Energy supply of the future - the contribution of chemistry" from March 2007, which shows the importance of chemistry for energy supply and the rational use of energy. For the Max Planck Society he represents energy topics, including a. with the publication "The Future of Energy - The Answer of Science".
In addition, he holds the lecture “Basics of Chemistry” for mechanical engineers, environmental technicians, sales engineers and electrical technicians at the Ruhr University in Bochum .
Research priorities
- Heterogeneous catalysis
- High throughput methods in catalysis and materials research
- Crystal nucleation and growth
- Use of biomass
- Hydrogen storage
- Porous solids
Scholarships and Awards
- 1979–1984 scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk
- 1989 PhD award from the University of Münster
- 1991 Boehringer-Ingelheim Prize
- 1992–1994 habilitation grant from the DFG
- 2000 Honorary Professor at the Ruhr University Bochum
- 2001 Science Prize: Research between Fundamentals and Applications by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
- 2002 Elected member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
- 2003 Leibniz Prize from the DFG
- 2007 Honorary Professor Dalian University of Technology (China)
- 2008 Elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2010 Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC)
- 2010 Ruhr Prize for Art and Science
- 2010 Elected member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences
- 2011 Hamburg Science Prize from the Hamburg Foundation for Science, Development and Culture Helmut and Hannelore Greve
- 2014 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Prize for "Contributions to the scientific processing of socially important challenges" by the Leopoldina and the Donors' Association for German Science
- 2016 honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich
Other functions
- Founder, Chairman of the Supervisory Board (until the majority takeover by BASF in 2008, member of the Supervisory Board since then) and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of hte Aktiengesellschaft, a company that is active in the field of high-throughput development of catalysts and materials
- Vice President of the German Research Foundation
- Member of the board of Dechema (since 2010 deputy chairman) and the Society of German Chemists
- Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society
- Member of the University Council of the University of Duisburg / Essen
- Member of the founding supervisory board of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Editor of the journal Chemistry of Materials
- Member of the editorial boards of the journals Microporous and Mesoporous Materials , Advanced Materials , QSAR-Combinatorial Science , Chemical Communications , Chemical Engineering & Technology , Chemistry - An Asian Journal , Advances in Catalysis
- Reviewer work for numerous research funding organizations
Fonts
- Editor: Handbook of porous solids, 5 volumes, Wiley-VCH 2002
- Heterogeneous Catalysis, Chemistry in Our Time, Volume 40, 2006, pp. 92-103
Web links
- Ferdi Schüth at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Homepage at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research
- Information on the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Entry in the Bochum university bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ see message from the Max Planck Society about this The team around Martin Stratmann, message from the MPG, June 5, 2014, accessed on June 19, 2015
- ↑ see position paper energy supply of the future at dechema.de (PDF; 445 kB)
- ↑ Ulrich Eberle, Michael Felderhoff, Ferdi Schüth: Chemical and Physical Solutions for Hydrogen Storage . tape 48 , December 1, 2009 ( researchgate.net [accessed February 9, 2018]).
- ↑ Member entry of Ferdi Schüth (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 22, 2016.
- ↑ Report on the price at IDW-Online .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schüth, Ferdi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schüth, Franz-Ferdinand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Allagen , now Warstein |