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Year of election: | 2008 |
Section: | Chemistry |
City: | Mülheim |
Country: | Germany |
Ferdi Schüth, a chemist by profession, has chosen catalysis and materials sciences as his main research field. As director at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kohlenforschung, Heterogeneous Catalysis department, he is well-known for his contributions in the field of porous materials with high inner surfaces. Furthermore, he actively transferred technology from fundamental research to industrial applications by co-founding the hte-Aktiengesellschaft. The company, with a staff of approximately 150, develops novel catalysts by applying high-throughput techniques.