International Symposium on Inorganic Insights into Catalysis
on the Occasion of the 60th Birthday of Robert Schlögl

International Symposium on Inorganic Insights into Catalysis
on the Occasion of the 60th Birthday of Robert Schlögl

The Symposium aims at documenting, through a series of lectures by eminent scientists, the progress achieved in the investigation of heterogeneous catalysts over the last 35 years (roughly the time span of the professional career of Robert) and the current state of the art both in theory and experiment.
We look forward to an exciting event that will highlight the science in a field that is still rapidly evolving and looking forward to new challenges.

Robert Schlögl studied chemistry and completed his Ph.D. on graphite intercalation compounds at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (1982). After postdoctoral stays at Cambridge and Basle he carried out his habilitation under the supervision of Professor Ertl at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin (1989). Later he accepted the call for a Full Professorship in Inorganic Chemistry at Frankfurt University. In 1994 he was appointed his current position as Director at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. In addition, in 2011 he was appointed founding director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion that has been established in June 2012. Robert Schlögl's research focuses primarily on the in-situ investigation of heterogeneous catalysts, with the aim to understand kinetically demanding reactions using materials and conditions typical of technical applications as well as on prospecting and elucidating of nanochemically-optimized materials for energy storage. The application of knowledge-based heterogeneous catalysis for large-scale chemical energy conversion summarizes his current research focus. He is author of more than 900 publications and registered inventor of more than 20 patent families. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and member of numerous international organizations. His research activities have been recognized with several international awards.