Markus Antonietti

Markus Antonietti (born February 6, 1960 in Mainz ) is a German chemist .

Life

Antonietti attended the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium in Mainz from 1969 to 1978 and, after graduating from high school, studied chemistry and physics at the university there , since 1981 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . After graduating in chemistry in 1983, he became a research assistant and received a grant from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, and in 1984 the Adolf Todt grant. In 1985 he received his doctorate from Hans Sillescu with the dissertation Diffusion in Topologically Structured Polymer Systems with the predicate "summa cum laude" and was appointed as a university assistant. In 1990 he achieved his habilitation with the writing Mikrogele - Polymers with a special architecture and received the Gerhard Hess Prize of the German Research Foundation .

In September 1991 Antonietti accepted a call at the Philipps University in Marburg . Since October 1993 he has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Golm and Professor at the University of Potsdam .

The Clarkson University in Potsdam (New York) awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1997. In 1998 he was visiting professor in Lovain La Neuve (Belgium). In 2000, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences accepted Antonietti as a full member of its math and science class. In 2003 he received the Goldschmidt Elhuyar Prize from the Real Sociedad Espanola de Quimica. In 2005 he was visiting professor in Hefei , Paris IV and Turner Alfrey Lecturer in Midland. In 2015 he received the Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize . He was awarded the Liebig Medal for 2016. In November 2018 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class . In 2020 he received the Hermann Staudinger Prize for macromolecular chemistry.

Antonietti is married and has two children.