Robert Schlögl

Robert Schlögl (born February 23, 1954 in Munich) is a German chemist and director and Scientific Member of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Life and Work

Schlögl studied chemistry at the University of Munich, where he received his doctorate in 1982. After postdoctoral studies in Cambridge, Basel and at the Fritz Haber Institute under Gerhard Ertl, he completed his Habilitation in Chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin in 1989. This was followed by a call to the University of Frankfurt as Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. Schlögl then returned to Berlin and has been Director and Scientific Member of the Fritz Haber Institute since 1994. In 2011 he was also founding director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion.

Schlögl is a catalyst researcher who has made crucial contributions to the elucidation of the structural dynamics and functionality of heterogeneous catalysts based on inorganic solids. The focus of his work is on the investigation of polycrystalline copper, molybdenum and vanadium oxides for selective oxidation.

Schlögl received numerous awards and distinctions. He was awarded the Otto Bayer Prize and the Schunk Prize for innovative materials. In 2015 he received the Alwin Mittasch Prize, in 2017 the Ruhr Prize for Art and Science. For 2019 Schlögl was awarded the Eduard Rhein Prize. He is also a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and honorary professor at TU Berlin and Humboldt University of Berlin. Schlögl has been a member of the Leopoldina since 2011 and is a member of the German Academy of Engineering Sciences (Acatech).

Publications (selection)
  • als Herausgeber mit Jürgen Renn und Hans-Peter Zenner: Herausforderung Energie : ausgewählte Vorträge der 126. Versammlung der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte e.V., Berlin : Ed. Open Access 2011, ISBN 978-3-8442-0500-8 (epubli).
  • (Hrsg.): Chemical energy storage, Berlin ; Boston, Mass. : De Gruyter 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-026407-4.

Books
  • Christian Schwägerl: Er setzt Energie frei. Der Chemiker Robert Schlögl will mit Spitzenforschung das deutsche Energieproblem lösen, in: Cicero 12/2012, S. 84f.

References
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