Peter Wasserscheid
Peter Wasserscheid (born October 23, 1970 in Würzburg ) is a German chemist, professor of chemical reaction engineering and - together with Matthias Beller - winner of the 2006 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize .
Life
After studying at RWTH Aachen from 1991 to 1995 and completing a three-year doctorate in Wilhelm Keim's work group , Wasserscheid worked for four months as a postdoc at BP Chemicals in Great Britain . He then returned to Aachen for his habilitation and completed it at the end of 2002. Since October 2003 he has held the traditional chair for chemical reaction engineering at the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (successor to Gerhard Emig ).
Wasserscheid was also a member of the management of Solvent Innovation GmbH, which he co-founded, from 1999 to 2001 . Since then he has held the post of Scientific Supervisor. In 2013 he founded Hydrogenious Technologies GmbH together with Wolfgang Arlt, Eberhard Schlücker and Daniel Teichmann and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board. Since March 2014 he has been the founding director of the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energies (HI ERN) .
He is the older brother of actress Eli Wasserscheid , who has been an investigator in the Franconian crime scene since April 2015 .
Wasserscheid is married and has three children.
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The Wasserscheids research focus is on ionic liquids . He is considered a pioneer in this field, especially through the development of halogen-free ionic liquids.
Another topic that is being intensively researched at the Chair of Chemical Reaction Engineering and also at the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg is chemical energy storage in the form of hydrogen in liquid organic hydrogen storage media (LOHC from Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers ).
Awards
- 1996: Friedrich Wilhelm Prize of RWTH Aachen University for the diploma thesis
- 1999: Borchers plaque from RWTH Aachen University for doctoral studies
- 2000: Carl Zerbe Prize
- 2001: DECHEMA Prize from the Max Buchner Research Foundation
- 2003: German Business Innovation Prize
- 2006: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- 2010: ERC Advanced Investigator Grant
- 2013: Honorary Professor at the “Institute for Process Engineering”, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
- 2017: ERC Advanced Investigator Grant
- 2019: Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Wasserscheid in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage
- Publications (GoogleScholar)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erlanger Nachrichten: Tweet about University Professor Peter Wasserscheid. Retrieved April 13, 2015 .
- ^ German Scientific Society for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Coal eV: Statutes of the DGMK eV Accessed on May 16, 2018 .
- ↑ DECHEMA: The DECHEMA award winners since 1951. Accessed on May 16, 2018 .
- ^ Wirtschaftswoche: Chronology: Innovation Prize of the German Economy. Retrieved May 16, 2018 .
- ^ German Research Foundation: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2006. Accessed on May 16, 2018 .
- ^ European Research Council: List of selected Principal Investigators. (PDF) Retrieved May 16, 2018 .
- ^ European Research Council: List of Principal Investigators. (PDF) Retrieved May 16, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wasserscheid, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |