Martin Bertau

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Martin Bertau (born November 16, 1968 in Offenburg ) is a German chemical engineer and chemist and university professor at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg . There he heads the Institute for Technical Chemistry.

Bertau received his doctorate in 1997 at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (dissertation: The Pagodan route to dodecahedrans: a highly efficient synthesis variant; unsaturated seco-dodecahedranes ). He then headed the biotechnology department of the Rohner company in Basel, which is part of the Dynamit Nobel Group. From 2000 he was at the TU Dresden, where he completed his habilitation in organic chemistry and biochemistry in 2005 (Habilitation thesis: Principles of Whole Cell Biocatalysis with Saccharomyces cerevisiae ). Since 2006 he has headed the Institute for Technical Chemistry at the Bergakademie Freiberg.

He deals with resource-conserving and low- waste ( zero waste ) processes for the extraction and recycling of raw materials such as strategically important metals and semi-metals (rare earths, lithium, indium, germanium, etc.) and phosphorus and the use of carbon dioxide and lignocellulose as raw material for basic chemicals.

In 2012 he received the Raw Material Efficiency Award from the German Raw Material Agency for a phosphate recycling process he developed with colleagues from three other universities and the company RecoPhos Consult. It can be used for the cost-effective extraction of phosphate from sewage sludge ash.

Bertau has been a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences since 2016 .

In 2019 he will give a plenary lecture at the GDCh Science Forum Chemistry ( Hand in Hand. Modern extraction of raw materials and the periodic table of the elements ).

Fonts (selection)

  • with Günter Jeromin: Bioorganikum: Practical course in biocatalysis, Wiley-VCH 2005
  • as editor with Peter Kausch, Jens Gutzmer, Jörg Matschullat: Energy and raw materials: Shaping our sustainable future, Springer 2011
  • with Armin Müller, Peter Fröhlich, Michael Katzberg: Industrielle Inorganische Chemie, Wiley-VCH, 4th edition 2013
  • as editor with Heribert Offermanns, Ludolf Plass, Friedrich Schmidt, Hans-Jürgen Wernicke: Methanol: The Basic Chemical and Energy Feedstock of the Future: Asinger's Vision Today, Springer 2014
  • as editor with Peter Kausch, Jörg Matschullat, Helmut Mischo: Raw materials management and social development: the next 50 years, Springer spectrum 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Waste becomes fertilizer - German Raw Material Efficiency Prize for Phosphate Recycling Process , Freiberg University of Technology, December 13, 2012
  2. ↑ Entry at the SAW
personal data
SURNAME Bertau, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemical engineer and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenburg