Hans-Joachim Freund (chemist)

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Hans-Joachim Freund (born March 4, 1951 in Solingen ) is a German chemist and physicist .

Life

Hans-Joachim Freund

Hans-Joachim Freund studied physics and chemistry at the University of Cologne and received his doctorate in 1978 under Georg Hohlneicher. rer. nat. with a thesis on spectroscopy and its theory-based interpretation of adsorbed molecules on surfaces compared to metal carbonyl complexes .

Between 1979 and 1981 he worked as a post-doctoral student and a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation at the Physics Department of the University of Pennsylvania with synchrotron studies of the electronic structure of adsorbed molecules . After returning to Cologne, he completed his habilitation there in 1983 and in the same year accepted a professorship at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . In 1987 he followed a call to the Chair of Physical Chemistry I at the Ruhr University Bochum .

As the successor to Jochen H. Block , who died in 1995 , he was appointed Scientific Member and Director at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, where he has headed the “Chemical Physics” department since 1996. He deals with the physics and chemistry of solid surfaces, structure and dynamics of oxide surfaces, model systems for heterogeneous catalysis and nanostructures and clusters.

Hans-Joachim Freund is a member of various German and foreign scientific societies and is active on the editorial boards of several scientific journals. In addition, he and his group have published over 800 scientific papers and presented them to the scientific public in more than 700 invited lectures.

Honors and awards (selection)

  • Sponsorship award from the Gottfried Wilhelm program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) (1995)
  • Centenary Award and Lecturer, Royal Society of Chemistry (2006/2007)
  • Gabor A. Somorjai Award from the American Chemical Society for creative research in catalysis (2007)
  • Karl Ziegler Prize of the Society of German Chemists (GDCh) and Ziegler Fund (2011)
  • Blaise Pascal Medal in Material Science of the European Academy of Sciences (2012)
  • Award for Service 2012 of the EuCheMS (2012)
  • American Vacuum Society Gaede Langmuir Prize (2014)
  • Michel Boudart Prize for the promotion of catalysis, sponsored by the Haldor Topsøe Company and jointly administered by the North American Catalysis Society (NAM) and the European Federation of Catalyst Societies (EFCATS) (EuropaCat) (2015)
  • ERC Advanced Grant 2014/15 "Crystalline and vitreous silica films and their interconversion" (2.4 million)
  • Bunsen Medal of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry (2015)
  • 141st Committee on Microbeam Analysis Award of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (2017)
  • 2019 ACS Award in Surface Chemistry (2019)

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personal data
SURNAME Friend, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen