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Curriculum Vitae
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Professor Dr. Dr. h. c. Helmuth Möhwald
- 1971: Diploma in Physics, (University Göttingen)
Thesis: Measurements of the absolute polarization of optical transitions with molecules and molecular complexes in liquid-crystalline solvents
- 1974: PhD in Physics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen (Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute)
Thesis: Localised and delocalised triplet states in single crystals of electron donor acceptor complexes: ESR and emission spectroscopic investigations between 4K and 300K
- 1974-1975: Postdoc, (IBM San Jose)
- 1978: Habilitation in Physics, (University of Ulm)
Thesis: Transport properties and phase transition in crystals of organic charge-transfer complexes
- 1978-1981: Scientific Co-Worker, (Dornier-System, Friedrichshafen)
- 1981-1987: Associate Professor (C3) in Experimental Physics (Biophysics), (TU München)
- 1987-1993: Chair (C4) in Physical Chemistry, (University of Mainz)
- Since 1993: Director and Scientific Member, (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interface, Golm/Potsdam)
- Since 1995: Honorary Professor, (University of Potsdam)
Guest Professor
- 1983: University Pennsylvania
- 1991-1992: Weizmann Institut, Rehovot
- Since 2001: Zheijang University, Hangzhou
- Since 2004: Fudan University, Shanghai
Awards
- 1979: Physics Award of the German Physical Society
- 1998: Raphael-Eduard-Liesegang Award of the German Colloid Society
- 2000: Chaire de Paris
- 2000: Vannegard Lecture, Gothenburg
- 2002: Lectureship Award of the Japanese Colloid Society, Sendai
- 2002: Founder’s Lecture, London
- 2002: Eli Burstein Lecture, Philadelphia
- 2004: Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2006: Honorary Professor at the the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Chemistry)
- 2007: Prix-Gay-Lussac, French Ministry of Research and Technology in collaboration with the Alexander Humboldt Foundation
- 2007: Overbeek Medal of the European Colloid and Interface Society
- 2008: Honorary Doctorate of the University Montpellier, France
- 2009: Wolfgang Ostwald Price of the German Colloid Society
ISI Publication Record (2009)
- Publications: >760, citations >24.000
- h-index: 75, highly cited scientist
Memberships
- Since 1986: Board of the German Colloid Society
- 1996-1998: Board of the German Physical Society
- 1996-1998: Speaker of the Professional Association “Chemical Physics” of the German Physical Society
- 1997-2000: Scientific Advisory Board of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
- 2002-2008 Scientific Advisory Board of the Hahn Meitner Institute, Berlin
- 2002/2003: President of the European Colloid and Interfaces Society
- 2004-2007: President of the German Colloid Society
- Since 2004: Scientific Advisory Board and Jury of the Austrian Nano Initiative
- 2005-2008: Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hahn Meitner Institute, Berlin
- Since 2008: Biofibre Materials Research Center, Stockholm
- Since 2008: Aldolphe Merkle Institut, Fribourg, CH
- Since 2008: International Center for Frontier Research in Chemistry, Strasbourg, F
- Since 2008: Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Biophysics of the Austrian Acad. Sci., Graz, Au
Research Interests
Biomimetic Systems
- Structure of Complex Interfaces
(amphiphiles, peptides, proteins, polymers, clusters, particles
- Polymer (protein)/Lipid Interactions
- Processes at Surfaces of Model Membranes
(enzyme catalysis, recognition, ion translocation)
Chemistry and Physics in Confined Space
- Structure Transitions
(phase transitions and separations, crystallization and growth, swelling)
- Synthesis
(enzyme catalysis, polymerization, inorganic particle synthesis)
- Encapsulation and Release
- Sonochemistry
Dynamics at Interfaces
- Molecular Motion
(translational, rotational)
- Electron/Energy Transfer
- Molecular Exchange
- Surface Rheology
Supramolecular Interactions
- Noncovalent Intermolecular Interactions
(metal coordination, hydrogen bonds)
- Interactions between Interfaces
(enhanced colloidal interactions, entropic forces, long-range electrostatic and magnetic interactions)
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