Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen

Ackermannweg 10
D-55128 Mainz
Germany
Phone:+49 6131 379 150
Fax:    +49 6131 379 351
Email: muellen@mpip-mainz.mpg.de

joined the Max-Planck-Society in 1989 as one of the directors of 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 Göttingen in 1988 and to the University of Cologne in 1992. In 1993 he was awarded the "Max-Planck-Forschungspreis" and in 1997 the "Philip Morris-Forschungspreis". In 1999 he became member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina.In addition his scientific work was awarded with the: 2001 Bayer Distinguished Lecturer (Washington University), Smets-Lecturer (Belgium), Nozoe Award (San Diego); 2002: Lane Lecturer (Champaign, Urbana), Kyoto University Foundation Award; 2003 Science Award of the “Stifterverband” and Member of the Selection Committee of the Franquis Foundation

 He has been visiting scientist at the University of Osaka (JSPS), the University of Shanghai, the University of Leuven, the University of Jerusalem, the University of Cambridge and the University of Rennes and the University of Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium (SMETS Lecture). 2001 he was given a honorary doctorate by the university of Sofia,

His current research interests focus on synthetic macromolecular chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and material sciences. A crucial goal is the correlation of molecular structures and supramolecular structures with physical properties. Typical examples are:

• new polymer-forming reactions including methods of organometallic chemistry;
• new initiators and additives for radical or anionic polymerization;
• multi-dimensional polymers with, e.g., ribbon-type, sheet-type or shape-persistent three-dimensional structures;
• functional polymeric networks, in particular for catalytic purposes;
• sulfur containing polymers;
• chemistry with single molecules;
• charge-transport properties of polymers and related oligomers including doping mechanisms and charge-storage capacity (EPR spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry);
• polymers with built-in control of supramolecular architecture and morphology, in particular by hydrogen bonding;
• molecular materials with liquid crystalline properties.

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