Thomas M. Klapötke

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Thomas Matthias Klapötke (born February 24, 1961 in Göttingen ) is a German inorganic chemist . Since 1997 he has been Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

Klapötke graduated from high school in Steglitz in Berlin. He studied chemistry at the TU Berlin , where he completed his intermediate diploma in 1982, and passed his diploma examination in 1984. He did his doctorate in 1986, also at the TU Berlin. In 1990 he completed his habilitation at the TU Berlin. He was then a private lecturer at the TU Berlin between 1990 and 1995. From 1995 to 1997 he was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow . In 1997 he accepted the call to a C4 professorship for inorganic chemistry at the LMU Munich. Klapötke rejected calls to the Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Vienna.

Klapötke researches at the LMU Munich with a working group of around 30 employees, primarily on explosives; its employees are checked by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution . According to media reports, Klapötke heads the "only university chemistry laboratory in Germany that deals with defense technology". His chair has received over US $ 1 million from the US military for explosives research since 2000.

Academic offices (selection)

  • 1998–99 Head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at LMU Munich.
  • from 1998 representative of the Bavarian Elite Academy
  • 1998–2000 and 2002–2004 member of the Senate of the LMU Munich

Prizes and awards (selection)

Visiting professorships

  • 1997/1998 Wilsmore Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • 1998–2000 visiting professor at the University of Glasgow
  • 1999 Wilsmore Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia
  • since 2009 visiting professor at the University of Maryland / USA

Publications (selection)

  • Chemistry of High Energy Materials , Berlin; New York, NY: de Gruyter 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-020745-3 , English edition: Chemistry of high-energy materials , 2nd edition, Berlin; Boston, Mass .: De Gruyter 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027358-8 .
  • (as ed.): High energy density materials , Berlin; Heidelberg; New York: Springer 2007 (Series: Structure and Bonding , Vol. 125)
  • Erwin Riedel (Eds.), C. Janiak, TM Klapötke, HJ Meyer, Moderne inorganic Chemie , 2nd edition, de Gruyter, Berlin New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-017838-9 .
  • Thomas Klapötke, Axel Schulz: Quantum mechanical methods in main group chemistry , Heidelberg, Berlin, Oxford: Spectrum, Akad. Verl. 1996, ISBN 3-86025-277-1 , English edition Wiley 1998, ISBN 0-471-97242-8 .
  • (with Inis C. Tornieporth-Oetting): Non-metal chemistry , VCH-Verlag, Weinheim, New York 1994, ISBN 3-527-29052-4 .
  • Energetic Materials Encyclopedia , de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-044139-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Thomas Klapötke at academictree.org, accessed on February 24, 2018.
  2. ^ Süddeutsche.de: Defense technology at the LMU - "I wouldn't harm a fly" , September 7, 2010.
  3. ↑ Harro Albrecht: Man with Boom , in Die Zeit from April 26, 2008.
  4. ^ Süddeutsche.de: Secret War - Pentagon sponsors explosives research in Munich , November 25, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Klapötke, Thomas M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klapötke, Thomas Matthias (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German inorganic chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen