director-Max Planck Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz

	Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen joined the Max-Planck-Society in 1989 as one of the directors at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research. He obtained a Diplom-Chemiker degree at the University of Cologne in 1969 after work with Professor E. Vogel. His Ph.D. degree was granted by the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 1972 where he undertook research with Professor F. Gerson on twisted pi-systems and EPR spectroscopic properties of the corresponding radical anions. In 1972 he joined the group of Professor J.F.M. Oth at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich where he worked in the field of dynamic NMR spectroscopy and electrochemistry. He received his habilitation from the ETH Zürich in 1977 and was appointed Privatdozent. In 1979 he became a Professor in the Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Cologne, and accepted an offer of a chair in Organic Chemistry at the University of Mainz in 1983. He received a call to the University of Gottingen in 1988. > contact information > download CV (pdf-document, 108 Kb)
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Professional Career 1966 ~ 1969 Studies in Chemistry, University of Cologne 1969 Diplomchemiker-Degree (Professor E. Vogel) 1971 PhD-work, University of Basel (Professor F. Gerson) 1972 ~ 1978 Postdoctoral-training and Habilitation (Professor J.F.M. Oth) ETH Zürich 1977 Privatdozent ETH Zürich 1979 ~ 1984 Professor University of Cologne 1983 ~ 1989 Professor University of Mainz 1988 Call from the University of Gottingen 1989 Scientific Member of the Max-Planck-Society and Director at the MPIP 1992 Call from the University of Cologne
Professional Duties 1995 Member of the Editorial Boards of Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics Journal of Materials Chemistry, Journal of Macromolecular Science, Pure and Applied Chemistry 1995 ~ 2011 Editor of Synthetic Metals 1998 Editor of Polymer Bulletin Member of the Evaluation Committee of Chemistry Departments in Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) 1999 Member of the Selection Committee of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation 2000 Member of the Advisory Board of the Center of Nanoscience, University of Munich 2001 Member of the Evaluation Committee for Chemistry in the Netherlands 2003 Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Chemical Society Chairman of the Advisory Committee of "Eidgenössisches Materialprüfungsamt 2004 Member of the Editorial Board of Chemistry of Materials 2005 Member of the Editorial Board of Chemistry Letters Member of the Editorial Board of Chemistry World Member of the Editorial Board of Accounts of Chemical Research 2006 Member of the Editorial Board of Macromolecules Member of the Editorial Board of the Indian Journals of Macromolecules, Chemisty and BioChemistry Member of the Senate Committee of the German Science Foundation Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society 2008 ~ 2009 President of the German Chemical Society 2011 ~ 2012 Vice-President of the German Association of Natural Scientists and Physicians 2011 Member of the senate of the Max-Planck-Society
Awards and Lectureships 1990 Visiting Professor, University of Osaka (JSPS) 1993 Max-Planck-Research-Prize Honorary Professor, East China University of Technology, Shanghai 1995 Richard-Willstätter-Lecturer, Jerusalem 1996 "Capita-Selecta"-Lecturer, Katholieke University of Leuven 1997 Philip-Morris-Research-Prize Melville-Lecturer, University of Cambridge 1998 Visiting Professor, University of Rennes 1999 Member of the German Academy Leopoldina 2000 Bruno-Werdelmann-Lecturer, University of Essen 2001 Honorary Doctorate, University of Sofia Bayer Distinguished Lecturer, Washington University, St. Louis Smets-Lecturer, Belgium Nozoe-Award, San Diego 2002 Lane Lecturer, Champaign, University of Urbana Kyoto University Foundation Award 2003 Science Award of the "Stifterverband" 2006 International Award of the Belgian Polymer Group Honorary Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Applied Chemistry, Changchun Butler Lecturer, University of Florida, Gainesville Barré Lecturer, University of Montreal Bender Lecturer, Northwestern University, Evanston ICI Distinguished Lecturer, University of Calgary 2007 Otto-Bayer-Lecturer, University of Cologne 2008 Hermanos Elhuyar - Hans Goldschmidt Award of the Spanish Chemical Society Visiting Professor, University of Bordeaux Honorary Professor, Institute of Chemistry, Beijing, Chinese Academy of Sciences Bayer Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh S. Kwolek Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University Innovation Award of the State of North Rhine Westphalia Nicolaus August Otto Award 2009 Visiting Scientist, University of Marseille Society of Polymer Science Japan International Award Honorary Professor, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China Honorary Professor University of Heidelberg Honorary Member of the Israel Chemical Society 2010 Honorary Doctorate, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 2011 ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry Tsungming Tu Award of the National Science, Taiwan Distinguished Visiting Professor, National University Singapore
Research Targets - new polymer-forming reactions including methods of organometallic chemistry - multi-dimensional polymers with complex shape-persistent architectures - functional polymeric networks, in particular for catalytic purposes - dyes and laser writing into polymers - chemistry and physics of single molecules - molecular materials with liquid crystalline properties for electronic and optoelectronic devices - materials for lithium or hydrogen storage - biosynthetic hybrids - nanocomposites