René Deplanque

René Deplanque (* 1950 in Lübeck ) is a German chemist and science manager. From 1994 to 2011 he was head of FIZ Chemie in Berlin. From 2012 to 2014 he was Secretary General of IUPAC .

Life

Deplanque studied chemical engineering at the University of Hamburg , where he completed his diploma. He then went on to study in London: he earned a Master of Science degree in electrochemistry and his PhD from Sir John Cass College of the (former) London Guildhall University . He then worked at Cambridge University as a lecturer in the field of computer modeling of physical chemistry.

In 1983 he went back to Germany, where he initially worked for Brown, Boveri & Cie. was mainly active in the field of corrosion research. In 1988 he moved to the Max Planck Society , where he became a member of the management of the Gmelin Institute . The Gmelin Institute was the publisher of the Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry , a comprehensive standard work on inorganic chemistry. Deplanque took over the overall project management for the electronic preparation of the Gmelin manual. In 1994 Deplanque became the scientific managing director of the Fachinformationszentrum Chemie (FIZ Chemie) in Berlin, where he became sole managing director in 2005.

In August 2011, Deplanque was elected Secretary General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and took up his honorary position in January 2012. With Deplanque, a German headed the IUPAC for the first time. He held this office until 2014.

Honors

• Honorary Professor at TU Berlin (2001)
• Gmelin-Beilstein commemorative coin

Web links

• Interview with Deplanque about chemistry information in the Chemical Information Bulletin of the American Chemical Society, 2010, English
• Page about Deplanque at CHEManager

Individual evidence

1. ↑ idwf.eu: Honorary professorship for Dr. René Deplanque ( Memento from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )