Uwe Karst
Uwe Karst (born May 8, 1965 in Münster ) is a German chemist and professor of inorganic and analytical chemistry at the University of Münster .
After graduating from Wilhelm-Hittorf-Gymnasium , Karst studied chemistry in Münster from 1985 with a diploma in 1990 and a doctorate under Karl Cammann in 1993. In between, he was a research assistant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at RM Wightman in 1991 . As a post-graduate student , he was with RE Sievers at the University of Colorado Boulder . He completed his habilitation in 1998 in Münster and from 2001 was Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Twente . Since 2005 he has been Professor of Analytical and Inorganic Chemistry in Münster (successor to Karl Cammann).
Among other things, he deals with nanoparticles (fluorescent label), the online coupling of techniques of electrochemistry , liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry in analytical chemistry, the detection of gadolinium accumulation in biological tissue (as a result of its use as a contrast agent in MRI with consequences up to kidney failure), species analysis and development of atomic spectroscopy techniques.
In 1999 he received the group prize for analytical chemistry from the Society of German Chemists and in 2009 the Fresenius Prize . He is a member of the DFG Review Board Analytical Chemistry.
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| SURNAME | Karst, Uwe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muenster |