Robert Schlögl, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany, and Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, celebrates his 65th birthday on February 23, 2019. Schlögl’s research focuses on heterogeneous catalysis, the development of materials for energy storage, and large-scale chemical energy conversion.
Robert Schlögl studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LUM), Germany, where he received his Ph.D. in 1982. He then did postdoctoral research at the Universities of Cambridge, UK, and Basel, Switzerland. Schlögl completed his habilitation at the Fritz Haber Institute in 1989. The same year, he joined the University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. Since 1994, Schlögl has served as Director at the Fritz-Haber-Institute and Honorary Professor at the Technical University of Berlin. He was also named Honorary Professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1998. Since 2011, he has been Founding Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion. He has also been named Honorary Professor at the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany, in 2012 and Honorary Professor at the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB), Germany, in 2015.
Among other honors, Schögl has received the DECHEMA-Plaque in 2010, the Alwin Mittasch Prize in 2015, and the Innovation Award 2015 from the Ministry for Innovation, Science, Research and Technology (MIWF) of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Germany. He serves on the Editorial Board of ChemCatChem and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
Selected Publications
- Put the Sun in the Tank: Future Developments in Sustainable Energy Systems,
Robert Schlögl,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 343–348.
https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201808799 - Biomass-Derived Graphene-like Carbon: Efficient Metal-Free Carbocatalysts for Epoxidation,
Guodong Wen, Qingqing Gu, Yuefeng Liu, Robert Schlögl, Congxin Wang, Zhijian Tian, Dang Sheng Su,
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 16898–16902.
https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201809970 - The Role of the Copper Oxidation State in the Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 into Valuable Hydrocarbons,
Juan-Jesús Velasco-Vélez, Travis Jones, Dunfeng Gao, Emilia Carbonio, Rosa Arrigo, Cheng-Jhih Hsu, Yu-Cheng Huang, Chung-Li Dong, Jin-Ming Chen, Jyh-Fu Lee, Peter Strasser, Beatriz Roldan Cuenya, Robert Schlögl, Axel Knop-Gericke, Cheng-Hao Chuang,
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2018, 7, 1485–1492.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05106 - Graphitic carbon nitride materials: variation of structure and morphology and their use as metal-free catalysts,
Arne Thomas, Anna Fischer, Frederic Goettmann, Markus Antonietti, Jens-Oliver Müller, Robert Schlögl, Johan M. Carlsson,
J. Mater. Chem. 2008, 18, 4893–4908.
https://doi.org/10.1039/b800274f - Superior Storage Performance of a Si@SiOx/C Nanocomposite as Anode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries,
Yong-Sheng Hu, Rezan Demir-Cakan, Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Jens-Oliver Müller, Robert Schlögl, Markus Antonietti, Joachim Maier,
Angew. Chem. Int. Edi. 2008, 47, 1645–1649.
https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200704287 - The Active Site of Methanol Synthesis over Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 Industrial Catalysts,
M. Behrens, F. Studt, I. Kasatkin, S. Kuhl, M. Havecker, F. Abild-Pedersen, S. Zander, F. Girgsdies, P. Kurr, B.-L. Kniep, M. Tovar, R. W. Fischer, J. K. Norskov, R. Schlögl,
Science 2012, 336, 893–897.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1219831
Also of Interest
- Innovation Award for Robert Schlögl,
ChemViews Mag. 2016.
German researcher honored for work on renewable energy - Schlögl Awarded,
ChemViews Mag. 2015.
Professor Robert Schlögl, Berlin, Germany, was awarded the BASF-DECHEMA Alwin Mittasch Prize 2015 - Awarded: R. Schlögl and J. Lehmann,
ChemViews Mag. 2010.
DECHEMA Plaque awarded to Robert Schlögl, Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin, and Jürgen Lehmann, University of Bielefeld
