Matthias Epple
Matthias Christian Epple (born January 2, 1966 in Reutlingen ) is a German chemistry professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen .
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After graduating from high school in Wolfsburg (book prize of the "Fonds der Chemischen Industrie" as the best chemistry graduate of the high school year 1984) Matthias Epple studied chemistry at the TU Braunschweig (diploma 1989). With a doctoral grant from the “Fonds der Chemischen Industrie”, he then wrote a dissertation under the supervision of Heiko K. Cammenga on solid-state reactions and solid-solid phase transformations with time- and temperature-resolved X-ray powder diffractometry, with which he obtained a doctorate in natural sciences (Dr. rer. nat.).
With a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG), he worked in 1993 with John C. Berg at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. Subsequently, with a habilitation grant from the DFG, he did research with Armin Reller at the Institute for Inorganic and Applied Chemistry at the University of Hamburg on solid-state reactions of organic and organometallic compounds, with which he completed his habilitation in 1997.
Since 2003 he has been a professor of inorganic chemistry, from 2004 to 2008 he was dean of studies and from 2008 to 2011 dean of the chemistry department at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Essen .
Matthias Epple is married and has four children.
Honourings and prices
- 2004: Fellow of the Program for the Invitation of Foreign Scientists to Japanese Institutes by the Japanese Association for the Advancement of Medical Equipment (JJAME Fellowship)
- Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG) (1998).
- 1995: Netzsch-GEFTA sponsorship award from the Society for Thermal Analysis
Fonts
- Biomaterials and Biomineralization. An introduction for natural scientists, physicians and engineers , Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-519-00354-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Matthias Epple in the catalog of the German National Library
- Institute homepage
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Epple, Matthias |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Epple, Matthias Christian (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd January 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reutlingen |