Lecture: Supported Pd and Pt catalysts applied in hydrogenation and oxidation
Lecturer: Dr. Martin Muhler, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany
Time: 9am, August 14, 2018, Tuesday
Location: 111 Meeting Room, Energy Building
Biography:
Martin Muhler studied chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit？t in Munich from 1980 to 1986. He moved to Berlin to the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society (FHI) joining Prof. Dr. G. Ertl’s group as PhD student. He received his PhD in 1989 from the Freie Universit？t Berlin. He joined Haldor Topsoe A/S in Denmark as a postdoctoral fellow from 1989 to 1991. He returned to Prof. Ertl’s Department of Physical Chemistry as head of the group “Heterogeneous Catalysis” and finished his habilitation in Industrial Chemistry in 1996 (Technische Universit？t Berlin). In 1996 he was appointed full professor in Industrial Chemistry at the Ruhr-University Bochum, where he still is. Since 2015, he is also the Max Planck Research Fellow at Max Planck Institue for Chemical Energy Conversion.
His research is focused on heterogeneous redox catalysis comprising selective reduction and oxidation, electrocatalysis and photocatalysis. Syngas catalysis is a major topic on which he has been working for more than 20 years. His number of publications is around 450 (h-index of 65). He is a member of the International Advisory Boards of ChemCatChem, ChemSusChem, and the State Key Laboratory of Catalysis at the DICP in Dalian. He is the German representative in the European Federation of Catalysis Societies (EFCATS) and in the International Association of Catalysis Societies (IACS). Since 2014 he is the Chairman of the German Catalysis Society (GeCatS).
