Matthias Drieß

Matthias Driess , also Driess, (born July 7, 1961 in Eisenach ) is a German chemist who is professor of inorganic chemistry (organometallic chemistry and inorganic materials) at the TU Berlin .

Drieß studied chemistry at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and received his doctorate there in 1988 with Walter Siebert (and he also studied philosophy with a thesis on Rudolf Carnap ). As a post-doctoral student he was with Robert West at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and completed his habilitation in 1993 in Heidelberg in inorganic chemistry (silicon and phosphorus in unusual coordination). In 1996 he became a professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum (and received a teaching grant from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie) and in 2004 at the TU Berlin.

He deals with the synthesis of organometallic compounds such as transition metal complexes for catalysis and single-source molecular precursors (SSP) for nanoscale inorganic materials with applications in catalysis and optoelectronics.

He has been spokesman for the Unicat Excellence Cluster (Unifying concepts in catalysis) since 2007.

In 2010 he received the Alfred Stock Memorial Prize , in 2000 the Klung Wilhelmy Science Prize (for work in main group chemistry, especially phosphorus, silicon, sodium), in 2011 the Wacker Silicone Prize and in 1997 the Chemistry Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . In 2012 he became a member of the Leopoldina and in 2014 of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

• Editor with Heinrich Nöth: Molecular clusters of the main group elements, Wiley-VCH 2004

Web links

• Homepage
• Literature by and about Matthias Drieß in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Matthias Driess at academictree.org, accessed on 30 January 2018th
2. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Matthias Drieß (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 4, 2016.