Klaus Müllen#
| Membership Number: | 4484 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/4594777/synthetische-chemie |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 Senior Professor, Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz
- 2016 Emeritus Professor
- 1989 - 2016 Scientific Member of the Max-Planck-Society and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz (Germany)
- 1984 – 1989 Professor University of Mainz (Germany)
- 1979 – 1984 Professor University of Cologne (Germany)
- 1972 – 1978 Postdoctoral-training and Habilitation, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
- 1971 PhD in Chemistry, University of Basel (Switzerland)
- 1969 Diploma in chemistry, University of Cologne (Germany)
Fields of Scholarship
- Multi-dimensional polymers with complex shape-persistent architectures
- Molecular materials with liquid crystalline properties for electronic and optoelectronic devices
- Functional polymeric networks, in particular for catalytic purposes
- Dyes and pigments
- New polymer-forming reactions including methods of organometallic chemistry
- Physical Organic Chemistry
- Biosynthetic hybrids
- Graphenes and carbon materials
- Chemistry and physics of single molecules
- Nanocomposites
Honours and Awards
- 1997 Philip-Morris-Research-Prize
- 1997 Melville-Lecturer, University of Cambridge
- 1999 Member of the German Academy Leopoldina
- 2001 Honorary Doctorate, University of Sofia
- 2006 International Award of the Belgian Polymer Group
- 2006 Honorary Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Bender Lecturer, Northwestern University, Evanston
- 2008 Hermanos Elhuyar – Hans Goldschmidt Award of the Spanish Chemical Society
- 2008 Innovation Award of the State of North Rhine Westphalia
- 2009 Honorary Member of the Israel Chemical Society
- 2010 Honorary Doctorate, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- 2011 European Research Council Advanced Grant
- 2012 Member of the North Rhine Westphalian Academy for Arts and Sciences
- 2012 Einstein Professor, Chinese
- 2013 Franco-German Award of the Sociéte Chimique de France
- 2013 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2014 ACS Nano Lectureship Award
- 2015 Member of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC)
- 2016 Honorary Professor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology
- 2016 Hermann-Staudinger-Award; German Chemical Society
- 2017 Hamburg Science Award
