Ralf Ludwig (physical chemist)

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Ralf Ludwig (born January 16, 1961 in Gladbeck ) is a German physical chemist . He is professor for physical and theoretical chemistry at the University of Rostock . From 1991 to 1993 he was Juso Federal Chairman.

Life

science

Ralf Ludwig attended the Heisenberg Gymnasium in Gladbeck and studied physics at the RWTH Aachen University after completing his civil service . In 1991 he received his PhD in physical chemistry as a student of Manfred Zeidler with a thesis on NMR studies of molecular movements and hydrogen bonds in methanol and methanol mixtures. rer. nat. PhD. In 1993, Ludwig went to the University of Wisconsin in Madison in the USA as a scholarship holder of the Heinrich Hertz Foundation , where he worked with the physical chemist Thomas C. Farrar and the theoretical chemist Frank Weinhold on the experimental investigation and theoretical description of hydrogen-bonded systems. In 1995 he returned to Germany and joined Alfons Geiger's group at the University of Dortmund . In 1999 the habilitation in physical chemistry took place there . In 2004 he followed a call to the University of Rostock as professor for physical and theoretical chemistry. He has also been a professor there since 2012 . In addition, since 2008 Ludwig has been division manager at the neighboring Leibniz Institute for Catalysis ( LIKAT ) in Rostock. From 2006 to 2010 he was also Managing Director of the Institute for Chemistry at the University of Rostock and from 2007 to 2008 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. He is also involved in the board of the “Life, Light and Matter” department of the interdisciplinary faculty.

Current research focus of his working group at the University of Rostock and the affiliated LIKAT are:

Ralf Ludwig was or is active in the following research programs funded by the German Research Foundation:

  • FOR 436 - Polymorphism, Dynamics and Function of Water at Molecular Interfaces (2001 to 2007)
  • SPP 1191 - Ionic Liquids (until 2013)
  • SFB 562 - Strong correlations and collective phenomena in the radiation field: Coulomb systems, clusters and particles (until 2017)
  • SPP 1807 Control of London Dispersion Interactions in Molecular Chemistry (until 2018)

Other research projects in which he is involved are the BMBF- funded Light2Hydrogen project to investigate photocatalytic water splitting, which is located at the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis , and the Nano4Hydrogen project funded by the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, which Ludwig is in charge of as project coordinator.

Ludwig is also a liaison professor of the Bunsen Society , co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie and was secretary of the European Molecular Liquids Group from 2008 to 2011 .

politics

Ralf Ludwig gained his first political experience with the Jusos in Gladbeck, Westphalia . As a representative of the Juso University Group Aachen , Ralf Ludwig belonged in 1987/88 to the federal board of the Juso University Groups, which was then known as the “University Working Group” . At the same time he was the spokesman for the North Rhine-Westphalian Juso university groups. In 1988 he was elected Deputy Federal Juso Chairman at the Karlsruhe Juso Federal Congress. Together with Doris Ahnen , he was considered the leading head of the undogmatic - reform socialist movement of the Jusos. In 1990 he was defeated in Munich in the election for federal chairman against the incumbent Susi Möbbeck , a SHB member who belonged to the “Juso-Left” that emerged from the “ Stamokaps ”.

At the union congress of the Jusos in the spring of 1991 in Potsdam , Ralf Ludwig was elected Juso Federal Chairman for two years. With the support of the majority of the East Jusos, he prevailed against Claudia Walther with 182 against 161 votes. The focus of his political activity was on the "ecological restructuring of industrial society", "new ways in drug policy" and the commitment to "the right to political asylum".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dissertation by Ralf Ludwig in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ^ Heinrich Hertz Foundation
  3. ↑ LIKAT: Vibrational Spectroscopy in Catalysis
  4. ^ University of Rostock: Physical and theoretical chemistry
  5. ↑ DFG research group FOR-436
  6. ↑ DFG priority program 1191: Ionic liquids
  7. ↑ DFG Collaborative Research Center 652: Strong correlations and collective phenomena in the radiation field: Coulomb systems, clusters and particles
  8. ↑ Light2Hydrogen
  9. ↑ Nano4Hydrogen ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Deutsche Bunsengesellschaft: Self-presentation of the DBG confidants ( memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 35 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bunsen.de
  11. ^ European Molecular Liquids Group
  12. ^ Socialist Forum Rhineland: Modernization and Crisis - The Way of the Jusos in the Years 1983 to 1996
  13. ↑ Ralf Ludwig , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 47/1991 of November 11, 1991, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  14. ↑ Martin Gorholt, Ralf Ludwig: Rescue attempts: the ecological restructuring of the industrial society. ISBN 3-924800-24-3 .
  15. ^ Ralf Ludwig, Jürgen Neumeyer: The narcotized society. New ways in drug policy and accepting drug work. ISBN 3-924800-44-8 .
  16. ↑ Ralf Ludwig: Vanishing Point Germany. ISBN 3-89472-248-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Gladbeck