Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Helmuth Möhwald, Director (em.)

Curriculum Vitae

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)
1993-2014: Director and Scientific Member, (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam)
Since 1995: Honorary Professor, (University of Potsdam)
Since 2013: Associate Editor ACS Nano
Since 2014: Director (em.) and Consultant with Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Department of Biomaterials)
Since 2014: Consultant with CEA Marcoule

Guest Professor

1983: University Pennsylvania
2000: Chaire de Paris
2001-2002: Max Varon Visiting Professorship, Weizmann Institut, Rehovot
2001: Zheijang University, Hangzhou
2004: Fudan University, Shanghai
2006: Honorary Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Chemistry)
2011: Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin
2011: Soochow University, Suzhou
2014: Honorary Professor, Chinese Acad.Sci(Inst Process Engin.)
2015: Southeast University, Nanjing
2016: Univ.of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu

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: Highly Cited Chemist according to ISI
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
2010: BP Visiting Lecturer 2010, Cambridge Univ.,UK
2012: Member of the Academy of Europe
2014: Langmuir Lectureship Award of the American Chemical Society
2014: Elyuhar-Goldschmidt Award of the Royal Spanish Chemical Society
2014: Honorary Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Process Engineering)
2017: “Distinguished Scientist” Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2018: IACIS Lifetime Achievement Award 2018

ISI Publication Record (January 2015)

Function in Societies

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
2002/2003: President of the European Colloid and Interfaces Society
2003-2007: President of the German Colloid Society

Scientific Advisory Boards

1997-2000: Scientific Advisory Board of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
2002-2007: Scientific Advisory Board of the Hahn Meitner Institute, Berlin
2005-2007: Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hahn Meitner Institute, Berlin
2004-2011: Scientific Advisory Board and Jury of the Austrian Nano Initiative
Since 2005: Bayreuth Center for Colloids and Interfaces
Since 2005: Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research, Potsdam
Since 2008: Biofibre Materials Research Center, Stockholm
Since 2008: International Center for Frontier Research in Chemistry, Strasbourg, F
2008-2012: Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Biophysics of the Austrian Acad. Sci., Graz, Au
2008-2010: Adolphe Merkle Institute, Université de Fribourg (CH)
Since 2010: Scientific Advisory Board - Materials Science at Gothenborg
Since 2012: Scientific Advisory Board "Pôle Chimie Balard", Université de Montpellier
2014: Chair of the Natural Science Evaluation Panel for Linnaeus Centers of the Swedish Research Council

Research Interests

Biomimetic Systems

Structure of Complex Interfaces
(amphiphiles, peptides, proteins, polymers, clusters, particles
Polymer (protein)/Lipid Interactions
Processes at Surfaces of Model Membranes

Chemistry and Physics in Confined Space

Structure Transitions
(phase transitions and separations, crystallization and growth, swelling)
Encapsulation and Release
Sonochemistry

Dynamics at Interfaces