Horst Hippler

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Horst Hippler (born September 23, 1946 in Göttingen ) is a German physical chemist and former President of the University Rectors' Conference (HRK).

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Hippler studied physics at the University of Göttingen ( diploma in 1970 ) and received his doctorate in 1974 from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne / Switzerland . In 1975/1976 he was a post-doctoral student at the IBM Research Laboratory in San Jose (California, USA) and from 1977 to 1992 scientific assistant and sub-project leader in a Collaborative Research Center (SFB) at the University of Göttingen. In 1988 he received his habilitation there .

In October 1993 he was offered a C4 professorship at the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) .

From 2000 to 2002 he was Vice Rector for Research and from 2002 to 2009 Rector of the University of Karlsruhe (TH); from 2009 to 2012 he headed their legal successor, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology . From 2006 to 2009 he was the founding president of the TU9 association . From 2010 to 2012 he chaired the Baden-Württemberg State Rectors' Conference.

Horst Hippler has been President of the University Rectors' Conference since May 1, 2012 . In this role, he advocated a constitutional reform that would enable the federal government to participate in the basic funding of universities and which came into force at the end of 2014. Various HRK recommendations on the effects of the new media on universities fall during his term of office. Another focus is career prospects for young researchers and the European research area. In the plagiarism case of Annette Schavans , he pleaded with the faculty for a multiple-eye principle for the reviewers and personal separation of assessment and decision. This positioning was controversial and was rejected by the faculty with reference to the legal situation.

In August 2010, Hippler positioned itself as one of 40 prominent signatories of the Energy Policy Appeal , a lobbying initiative of the four large electricity companies to promote the extension of the service life of German nuclear power plants.

From December 2010 to December 2011 Hippler held the rotating presidency of the European Confederation of Upper Rhine Universities (EUCOR). In May 2015 he was re-elected as President of the University Rectors' Conference for a further three years. Peter-André Alt succeeded him in August 2018 . Hippler also acted as chief negotiator for the DEAL project with the aim of concluding nationwide license agreements for the entire portfolio of electronic journals (e-journals) of major scientific publishers. The aim is to make a significant change to the current status quo in terms of negotiation, content and pricing. With this project, the first major agreement between German institutions and the publishing house Wiley was reached on January 15, 2019 .

Awards and memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • with B. Viskolcz: Addition complex formation vs. direct abstraction in the OH + C2H4 reaction. In: Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2, No. 16, 2000, pp. 3591-3596.
  • Formation and degradation of hydrocarbons in high-temperature reactions. In: Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 4, 2002, p. Vii.
  • with N. Krasteva, F. Striebel: The thermal unimolecular decomposition of HCO: effects of state specific rate constants on the thermal rate constant. In: Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 6, 2004, pp. 3383-3388.
  • with Binod R. Giri, Tobias Bentz and Matthias Olzmann: Shock-Tube Study of the Reactions of Hydrogen Atoms with Benzene and Phenyl Radicals. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry. 223, 2009, pp. 539-549.
  • with Ravi Xavier Fernandes, Christa Fittschen: Kinetic Investigations of the Unimolecular Decomposition of Dimethylether behind Shock Waves. In: Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters. 96, 2009, pp. 279-289.
  • with Oliver Schalk, Ji-Ping Yang, Andreas Hertwig, Andreas N. Unterreiner: Vibrational cooling in the liquid phase studied by ultrafast investigations of cycloheptatriene. In: Molecular Physics. 107, 2009, pp. 2159-2167.
  • Horst Hippler (Ed.): Engineering doctorate - strengths and quality assurance. Springer, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-23661-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Horst Hippler moves from Karlsruhe to Bonn. KIT press release 137/2012 of September 6, 2012, accessed on October 31, 2012.
  2. Prof. Dr. Horst Hippler new chairman of the rectors' conference BW , press release in the Information Service Wissenschaft from March 9, 2010, accessed on March 10, 2010.
  3. ^ Change at the head of the State Rectors' Conference. LRK press release, March 26, 2012, accessed on July 17, 2012 (PDF; 37 kB).
  4. Horst Hippler becomes the new HRK President. Press release of the German Rectors' Conference of April 24, 2012, accessed on April 24, 2012.
  5. #schavangate complete: The complete dossier - The report of the University of Düsseldorf for download. Retrieved July 25, 2014.
  6. EUCOR - Organization: The Presidium  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , EUCOR website, accessed February 13, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.eucor-uni.org  
  7. ^ University organization: Hippler remains President of the HRK. Spiegel-online, May 12, 2015, accessed on May 12, 2015 .
  8. DEAL project. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
  9. ^ Carolyn Wilke: German Institutions and Wiley Reach Open Access Publishing Deal. In: TheScientist. January 16, 2019, accessed April 28, 2019 .
  10. ^ Polanyi Medal for Professor Hippler. In: innovations-report.de. University of Karlsruhe, August 9, 2006, accessed on August 21, 2017 .
  11. ^ Honorary doctorate from the Université de Strasbourg for Horst Hippler - HRK. In: www.hrk.de. Retrieved May 11, 2016 .