Wolfgang Bensch

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Wolfgang Bensch

Wolfgang Bensch (* 1953 in Cologne ) is a German chemist and university professor .

Scientific career

Wolfgang Bensch studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1973 to 1978 and graduated with a diploma . In 1983 he received his doctorate with his thesis on "binary, ternary and quasi-ternary vanadium - chalcogenides ". From 1984 to 1986 he was a research assistant at the Inorganic Chemical Institute of the University of Zurich . In 1986 he became an employee at Siemens in the field of microelectronics / mega technology. In 1990 he became a research associate at the Inorganic Chemical Institute of the University of Frankfurt and was appointed private lecturer in inorganic chemistry there in 1993. Finally, in 1997, he was appointed professor (C4) for inorganic chemistry at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . From 1998 to 2006 he was a member of the Expert Council of the Institute for Science Education (IPN) at the University of Kiel. From 2002 to 2008 he was Deputy Ombudsman at Kiel University. Since 2010 he has been chairman of the specialist group “Solid State Chemistry and Materials Research ” of the GDCh and a member of the Advisory Boards of J Solid State Chem ., Z. Naturforsch. B , Z. Anorg. General Chem. Furthermore, Wolfgang Bensch is a member of the Cluster of Excellence " Future Ocean " at the University of Kiel.

honors and awards

  • 1999 Award of the teaching award of the State of Schleswig-Holstein together with Ms. Dr. S. Nick and Prof. Dr. R. Humuth
  • 2019 Wilhelm Klemm Prize

Research projects

  • 2009 DFG - Priority Program 1415: Crystalline non-equilibrium phases - preparation, characterization and in-situ investigation of the formation mechanisms

Selected publications

  • Drescher, Th., Niefind, F., Bensch, W., Grünert, W. (2012) Sulphide Catalysis without Coordinatively Unsaturated Sites: Hydrogenation, cis-trans Isomerization and H 2 / D 2 Scrambling over MoS 2 and WS 2 J. At the. Chem. Soc., 134, 18896-18899. doi : 10.1021 / ja3074903
  • Srinivasan, BR, Dhuri, SN, Näther, C., Bensch, W. (2006) On the Importance of H-Bonding Interactions in Organic Ammonium Tetrathiotungstatesmonths . Chemie, 137, 397-411. doi : 10.1007 / s00706-005-0456-y
  • Wendland, F., Näther, C., Bensch, W. (2000) Synthesis and crystal structure of the polychalkogenides Manganese-tris (1,2-ethandiamine) -triselenide [Mn (en) 3 ] Se 3 and Manganese-tris ( 1,2-ethandiamine) -monotellurodiselenide [Mn (en) 3 ] Se 2 Te Z. Naturforsch. B, 55b, 871-875.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CV of Prof. Dr. W. Bensch, website of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry Kiel , January 11, 2013
  2. ↑ Prizes and awards. In: wifo2019-aachen.de. Retrieved April 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Publications Prof. Dr. W. Bensch, website of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry Kiel , January 17, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Bensch, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne