Robert Schlögl

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Robert Schlögl (born February 23, 1954 in Munich ) is a German chemist and director and Scientific Member at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin and at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Mülheim an der Ruhr .

life and work

Schlögl studied chemistry at the University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1982. After postdoctoral stays in Cambridge , Basel and at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society with Gerhard Ertl, he completed his habilitation in chemistry at the TU Berlin in 1989 . This was followed by a call to the University of Frankfurt as Professor of Inorganic Chemistry . Schlögl then returned to Berlin and has been Director and Scientific Member at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society since 1994. In 2011 he also became founding director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion.

Schlögl is a catalysis researcher who made decisive contributions to the elucidation of the structural dynamics and functionality of heterogeneous catalysts based on inorganic solids. The focus of the work is on researching polycrystalline copper , molybdenum and vanadium oxides for selective oxidations .

Schlögl has received numerous prizes and awards. He was awarded the Otto Bayer Prize and the Schunk Prize for innovative materials. In 2015 he received the Alwin Mittasch Prize and in 2017 the Ruhr Prize for Art and Science . Schlögl was awarded the Eduard Rhein Prize for 2019 . He is also a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and honorary professor at the TU Berlin and HU Berlin . Schlögl is a member of the Leopoldina (since 2011) and a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (Acatech) .

Publications (selection)

  • as editors with Jürgen Renn and Hans-Peter Zenner: The energy challenge: selected lectures of the 126th meeting of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors eV , Berlin: Ed. Open Access 2011, ISBN 978-3-8442-0500-8 (epubli).
  • (Ed.): Chemical energy storage , Berlin; Boston, Mass. : De Gruyter 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-026407-4 .

literature

  • Christian Schwägerl : It releases energy. The chemist Robert Schlögl wants to solve the German energy problem with cutting-edge research, in: Cicero 12/2012, p. 84f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Robert Schlögl (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 20, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Schlögl, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich