Joachim Sauer#
Membership Number: | 2631 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2009 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | http://www.chemie.hu-berlin.de/forschung/quantenchemie |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 Professor Emeritus
- 1993 - 2017 Professor (C4) of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at Humboldt University, Berlin
- 1992 - 1996 Max Planck Society, Head of the Quantum Chemistry Group at Humboldt-Universtity, Berlin
- 1990 - 1991 BIOSYM Technologgies, San Diego/USA, Deputy Technical Director, Catalysis and Sorption
- 1977 - 1991 Academy of Sciences, Central Institute of Physical Chemistry, Berlin
- 1985 Dr. sc. nat., Academy of Sciences, Berlin
- 1973 - 1976 Humboldt University, Berlin
- 1974 Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude), Humboldt University, Berlin
- 1972 Diploma in Chemistry
- 1967 - 1972 Humboldt University, Berlin
Fields of Scholarship
- Quantum mechanical studies of reaction mechanisms on surfaces and in clusters
- DFT and ab initio methods
- Hybrid QM/QM methods
- Chemical reactivity
- Solid catalysis in particular zeolites
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Blaise-Pascal-Medal
- 2019 Schrödinger Medal
- 2018 Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- 2013 Honorary Degree (DSc), University College London
- 2010 Liebig-Denkmünze of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)
- 2009 Kolos Medal and Lecture Award, University of Warsaw and Polish Chemical Society
- 2009 Member of Academia Europea
- 2007 Member German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2006 External scientific member Fritz-Haber-Institute
- 1998 Alexander von Humboldt Award, Belgian National Fonds for Scientific Research
- 1995 Ordinary member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 1991 Chemistry Award of the Academy of Sciences of Göttingen
- 1991 Lecturer Award (Dozentenstipendium) of the German Chemical Industry Fund
- 1982 "Friedrich-Wöhler-Preis" of the Chemical Society of the GDR, Humboldt University, Berlin
- 1972 "Johann-Gottlieb-Fichte-Preis", Humboldt University, Berlin