Helmuth Möhwald#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 3021 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Helmuth Möhwald passed away March 27, 2018.
Positions Held
- Since 2014 Consultant with CEA Marcoule
- Since 2014 Director (em.) and Consultant with Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Department of Biomaterials)
- Since 1995 Honorary Professor, (University of Potsdam)
- 1993 - 2014 Director and Scientific Member, (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam)
- 1987 - 1993 Chair (C4) in Physical Chemistry, (University of Mainz)
- 1981 - 1987 Associate Professor (C3) in Experimental Physics (Biophysics), (TU München)
- 1978 - 1981 Scientific Co-Worker, (Dornier-System, Friedrichshafen
Fields of Scholarship
- Biomimetic Systems: Structure of Complex Interfaces (amphiphiles, peptides, proteins, polymers, clusters, particles; Polymer (protein)/Lipid Interactions; Processes at Surfaces of Model Membranes
- Chemistry and Physics in Confined Space: Structure Transitions (phase transitions and separations, crystallization and growth, swelling); Encapsulation and Release; Sonochemistry
- Dynamics at Interfaces: Molecular Motion (translational, rotational); Electron/Energy Transfer; Molecular Exchange
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Honorary Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Process Engineering)
- 2014 Elyuhar-Goldschmidt Award of the Royal Spanish Chemical Society
- 2014 Langmuir Lectureship Award of the American Chemical Society
- 2012 Member of the Academy of Europe
- 2010 BP Visiting Lecturer 2010, Cambridge Univ.,UK
- 2009 Wolfgang Ostwald Price of the German Colloid Society
- 2008 Honorary Doctorate of the University Montpellier, France
- 2007 Overbeek Medal of the European Colloid and Interface Society
- 2007 Highly Cited Chemist according to ISI
- 2007 Prix-Gay-Lussac, French Ministry of Research and Technology in collaboration with the Alexander Humboldt Foundation
- 2006 Honorary Professor at the the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Chemistry)
- 2004 Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2002 Eli Burstein Lecture, Philadelphia
- 2002 Founder’s Lecture, London
- 2002 Lectureship Award of the Japanese Colloid Society, Sendai
- 2000 Vannegard Lecture, Gothenburg
- 2000 Chaire de Paris
- 1998 Raphael-Eduard-Liesegang Award of the German Colloid Society
- 1979 Physics Award of the German Physical Society
