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Müllen, Klaus

Foreign Fellows

Category: 
Cat. III Fisica, Chimica e applicazioni


Elected: 2021

Email: muellen [@] mpip-mainz.mpg.de

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Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz (Germania).

Klaus Müllen was director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and is continuing research at the universities of Heidelberg and Cologne. His broad research interests range from new polymer-forming reactions, to the chemistry and physics of single molecules as well as graphenes, dendrimers and biosynthetic hybrids. He published about 2000 papers. He received many awards, honorary doctorates and honorary professorships and he is member of national and international academies.
From 2008-2009 he served as president of the German Chemical Society (GDCh). In 2013-2014 he was president of the German Association for the Advancement of Science and Medicine. In 2010 he won an ERC Advanced Grant for his work on nanographenes. He was associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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