Principal Investigator Robert Schlögl
Prof. Dr. Robert Schlögl
Phone: +49 208 306 3595
E-Mail
Department Heterogeneous Reactions
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
Project Area BB7: Advanced TEM and in situ X-Ray Spectroscopy
Project B7 aims at generating a fundamental understanding of the geometric and electronic real and surface structure of oxidation catalysts of the spinel- and perovkite-types under their working conditions.
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Curriculum Vitae
Professional career
Since 2015 |
Honorary Professor at Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
Since 2012 |
Honorary Professor at Universität Duisburg-Essen |
Since 2011 |
Founding Director Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Energiekonversion (MPI CEC) |
2001 |
Guest Professorship: L.M.S.P.C., Laboratoire des Matériaux, Surfaces et Procédés pour la Catalyse, UMR 7515 du C.N.R.S. / ULP, Université Louis Pasteur |
Since 1994 |
Director at Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin |
Since 1998 |
Honorary Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
Since 1995 |
Member of Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
Since 1994 |
Honorary Professor at the Technische Universität (TU) Berlin, Department of Chemistry |
1989 - 1994 |
Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, J.W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt |
1986-1989 |
Habilitation at Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG in the department of G. Ertl |
1986 |
Position in industry (Hoffmann La Roche) |
1982 - 1985 |
Postdoctoral researcher at University of Cambridge and University of Basel |
1979 - 1982 |
Scientific co-worker in course of doctoral studies at Ludwig Maximilians Universität |
Scientific education and dregrees
1989 |
Habilitation in Inorganic Chemistry at Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; |
1982 |
Doctoral degree from the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich |
1979-1982 |
Doctorate studies at Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich |
1979 |
Diploma degree from the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich |
1973-1979 |
Studies of chemistry at Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich |
Awards and Scholarships
2016 |
Honorary Innovation Price of North Rhine-Westphalia |
2015 |
Alwin Mittasch Award |
2013 |
Max Planck Communitas Award |
2010 |
Dechema Medal |
1994 |
Otto Bayer Prize |
1989 |
Schunck Award for Innovative Materials |
Positions and functions
- BESSY Beamtime Committee, Berlin (Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung m.b.H.)
- BESSY Scientific Advisory Board
- Dechema e. V. Fachsektion Katalyse, Chair 1996-2002
- GeCatS board member of German Catalysis Society
- EFCATS ‑ European Federation of Catalysis Societies - Board
- Hahn-Meitner-Institut (HMI), Berlin, Scientific Advisory Board (1995-2001)
- IACS - International Association of Catalysis Societies
- Chairman of the Selection Committee for the Academy Awards for the BBAW, 1999-2004
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Advisory Board for Scientific Information, Chair (1999-2005)
- Chairman of Chemisch-Physikalisch-Technische Sektion des Wissenschaftlichen Rates der MPG, 2004-2006
- GDCh (Society of German Chemists), Literatur-Kommission
- PCCP (Physical Chemistry ‑ Chemical Physics) Advisory Board
- Advisory Board Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (2008-2012)
- Scientific Advisory Board Leibnitz Institute for Catalysis, Rostock (2010-2014)
- Chair of MPG Presidential Commission on Future Directions of Science (since 2010)
- Chairman of the Steering Committee „Energy Systems of the Future“ of the German Acedemies, acatech (since 2012)
Editorial Boards
Since 2009 |
ChemCatChem |
Since 2003 |
Catalysis Letters |
2003- 2009 |
Journal of Catalysis |
1999- 2003 |
PCCP (Physical Chemistry ‑ Chemical Physics) |
1998- 2002 |
Applied Catalysis A |
Selected Publications
- W. Zhang, A. Trunschke, R. Schloegl, D. Su, Real-Space Observation of Surface Termination of a Complex Metal Oxide Catalyst, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 49, 6084 (2010).
- J. Zhang, D. Su, A. Zhang, D. Wang, R. Schloegl, C. Hebert, Nanocarbon as robust catalyst: Mechanistic insight into carbon-mediated catalysis, Angew. Chem. Inter. Ed. 46, 7319 (2007).
- D. Teschner, J. Borsodi, A. Wootsch, Z. Revay, M. Haevecker, A. Knop-Gericke, S.D. Jackson, R. Schloegl, The roles of subsurface carbon and hydrogen in palladium-catalyzed alkyne hydrogenation, Science, 320, 86 (2008).
- D.S. Su, T. Jacob, T.W. Hansen, D. Wang, R. Schloegl, B. Freitag, S. Kujawa, Surface chemistry of Ag particles: Identification of oxide species by aberration-corrected TEM and by DFT calculations, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 47, 5005 (2008).
- M. Schur, B. Bems, A. Dassenoy, I. Kassatkine, J. Urban, H. Wilmes, O. Hinrichsen, M. Muhler, R. Schloegl, Continuous coprecipitation of catalysts in a micromixer: Nanostructured Cu/ZnO composite for the synthesis of methanol, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 42, 3815 (2003).
- R. Schloegl, Chemistry's Role in Regenerative Energy, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 50, 6424 (2011).
- C. Rameshan, W. Stadlmayr, C. Weilach, S. Penner, H. Lorenz, M. Haevecker, R. Blume, T. Rocha, D. Teschner, A. Knop-Gericke, R. Schloegl, N. Memmel, D. Zemlyanov, G. Rupprechter, B. Kloetzer, Subsurface-Controlled CO(2) Selectivity of PdZn Near-Surface Alloys in H(2) Generation by Methanol Steam Reforming, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 49, 3224 (2010).
- Y.-S. Hu, X. Liu, J.-O. Mueller, R. Schloegl, J. Maier, D.S. Su, Synthesis and Electrode Performance of Nanostructured V(2)O(5) by Using a Carbon Tube-in-Tube as a Nanoreactor and an Efficient Mixed-Conducting Network, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 48, 210 (2009).
- M. Havecker, A. Knop-Gericke, T. Schedel-Niedrig, R. Schlogl, High-pressure soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy: A contribution to overcoming the "pressure gap" in the study of heterogeneous catalytic processes, Angew. Chem.-Int. Ed. 37, 1939 (1998).
- H.-J. Freund, G. Meijer, M. Scheffler, R. Schlogl, M. Wolf, CO Oxidation as a Prototypical Reaction for Heterogeneous Processes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50, 10064 (2011).