Matthias Beller
Matthias Beller (born April 11, 1962 in Gudensberg , Hessen ) is a German chemist and university professor.
Life
Matthias Beller attended elementary school in Edermünde and the König-Heinrich-Gymnasium in Fritzlar . From July 1981 to October 1982 he did his basic military service in Zweibrücken and Homberg .
In 1982 he began studying chemistry at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1987 he obtained his diploma with a thesis on the synthesis of amino acid linked aldophosphamide glucosides . Then Beller was a research assistant at the Organic Chemical Institute until 1989. In June 1989 , Beller received his doctorate under Lutz Friedjan Tietze with the development and application of new methods for the synthesis of anti-tumor agents and antiviral agents . From 1990 he was a Liebig Fellow of the German Chemical Industry Association and a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge , USA.
Between 1991 and 1995 the chemist worked at Hoechst AG in Frankfurt am Main , until 1993 as laboratory manager of the group organometallic chemistry - catalysis and then as project manager for homogeneous catalysis . In January 1996 he was appointed C3 professor for chemistry at the Technical University of Munich . Since June 1998 he has been director of the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis and has a C4 professorship for catalysis at the University of Rostock .
Beller has also been a board member in several organizations, with DECHEMA's Catalysis section since 1999, at the Institute for Applied Chemistry in Berlin-Adlershof since 2003 and chairman of the German catalysis association Connecat since 2004.
Beller is married and has two children.
Services
A major goal of Beller's research activities is the development of new and environmentally friendly catalysis processes . To achieve this, he uses naturally existing substances such as oxygen . His research focuses on the following topics:
- catalytic functionalization of aryl halides
- enantioselective oxidation reactions
- metal-catalyzed hydroformylation and telomerization
- catalytic aminations
- Carbonylation reactions
Some research results were also implemented industrially and marketed as part of a collaboration with Degussa .
Awards
Beller is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) and the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg . Since 2009 he has been a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina ( matriculation no. 7257 ).
- 1997 Otto Roelen Medal from DECHEMA
- 2002 Merck Frost Lectureship at the Universities of Toronto , Montreal and Kingston
- 2003 Novartis Chemistry Lectureship
- 2005 Novo Nordisk Lecturer
- 2006 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (with Peter Wasserscheid )
- 2006 Federal Cross of Merit
- 2011 Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize
- 2014 Emil Fischer Medal
- 2015 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2017 Karl Ziegler Prize
- 2017 Dr. Karl Wamsler Innovation Award
literature
- Leopoldina Newly elected members 2009, Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) 2010, p. 9 ( PDF )
Web links
- Literature by and about Matthias Beller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Matthias Beller in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
- Matthias Beller on the website of the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis
- Portrait at the German Research Foundation ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Matthias Beller at academictree.org, accessed on January 6, 2018th
- ↑ Qbus Werbeagentur GmbH: Catalysis. Leibniz Institute for Catalysis. Research on catalysts: curriculum vitae. Retrieved October 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Member entry by Matthias Beller (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 29, 2016.
- ↑ Rostock's Matthias Beller awarded the ERC Advanced Grant 2015. June 15, 2015, accessed July 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Rostock catalysis researcher honored. December 6, 2017, accessed December 7, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beller, Matthias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gudensberg , Hesse |