Johannes A. Lercher#
Membership Number: | 2872 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2010 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | https://www.ch.nat.tum.de/tc2/group/johannes-lercher/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1998 - present Professor, Chemistry Department, Technische Universität München, Germany
- 2000 - 2003 Dean Chemistry Department, TU München
- 2003 - 2007 Member of the Senate, TU München
- 1989 - 1993 Assistant/Associate Professor at the T.U, Vienna
- 1989 - 1993 Head of "Surface chemistry and Catalysis" research group, Institute for Physical Chemistry, T.U, Vienna
- 1989 - 1993 Acting chairman of Institute of Physical Chemistry, T.U. Vienna
- 1990 - 1996 Head of Christian Doppler Laboratory for Heterogeneous Catalysis
- 1993 - 1998 Professor of Chemical Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Catalysis
- Chemistry
- Physical chemistry
Honours and Awards Alwin-Mittasch-Preis (2021)
- 2017 David Trimm and Noel Cant Lectureship Award, Australian Catalysis Society
- 2016 ENI Award Hydrocarbons
- 2015/2016 R. B. Anderson Award, Canadian Catalysis Society
- 2013 Kozo Tanabe Award for Acid Base Catalysis
- Christian Doppler Award
- Shell - Center of Excellence Award
- PE-Award of the Indian Chemical Engineering Society
- External member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2004 UOP Invitational Lecture
- 2007 Geus Lecture
- 2008 PNNL-Distinguished Catalyst Researcher Lecture
- 2001 - 2004 President, International Zeolite Association
- 2010 - present Editor-in-Chief Journal of Catalysis
- Francois Gault Lectureship, Federation of European Catalysis Societies
- Robert Burwell Lectureship of the North American Catalysis Society
- Honorary Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
- Honorary Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology
- Member of
- European Academy of Sciences
- International Zeolite Association
- German Chemical Society
- German Catalysis Society
- American Chemical Society
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers