Previous Group Leaders

Overview

Group leaders at the Institute perform independent research and are therefore usually offered faculty positions at Universities after a few years; the links below lead to their current web pages. For those group leaders who have left the Institute after 2010, additional links lead to the web pages describing their activities during the time at the Institute (see below).

List of junior group leaders that accepted calls from universities since 2000:

2000	Wilhelm Maier	University of Saarbrücken (DE)
2002	Walter Leitner	RWTH Aachen, now MPI for Chemical Energy Conversion (DE)
2004	Götz Veser	University of Pittsburgh (USA)
2004	Lukas Gooßen	TU Kaiserslautern, now University of Bochum (DE)
2004	Frank Glorius	University of Marburg, now University of Münster (DE)
2005	Detlev Belder	Universiy of Regensburg, now University of Leipzig (DE)
2006	Stefan Hecht	Humboldt-University Berlin (DE), now RWTH Aachen
2007	Michael Bühl	University of St. Andrews (UK)
2008	Oliver Trapp	University of Heidelberg, now LMU München (DE)
2008	An-Hui Lu	Dalian University of Technology (CN)
2010	Regina Palkovits	RWTH Aachen (DE)
2013	Nuno Maulide	University of Vienna (AT)
2015	Manuel Alcarazo	University of Göttingen (DE)
2015	Roberto Rinaldi	Imperial College London (UK)
2015	Mario Barbatti	Aix-Marseille Université (FR)
2017	Elsa Sánchez-García	University of Duisburg-Essen, now Technische Universität Dortmund (DE)
2017	Matthias Heyden	Arizona State University (USA)
2018	Bill Morandi	ETH Zürich
2018	Gonzalo Prieto	Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ)
2019	Mathew Tredwell	Cardiff University School of Medicine (UK)
2019	Michael Römelt	Ruhr Universität Bochum (DE)
2020	Róbert Izsák	Middlebury College (USA)
2020	Martin Klussmann	Borchers, Langenfeld (DE)
2020	Shengfa Ye	Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
2022	Giovanni Bistoni	University of Perugia (IT)

Homepage teaser of previous group leaders since 2010:

Prof. Alcarazo

Manuel Alcarazo joined the University of Göttingen as Professor of Organic Chemistry in December 2015. The following web page documents the activities of his group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (until 2015) and gives a link to his current research.

Prof. Barbatti

Mario Barbatti became Professor at the Institut de Chimie Radicalaire of Aix-Marseille Université in November 2015. The following web page documents the activities of his group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (until 2015) and gives a link to his current research.

Giovanni Bistoni

Giovanni Bistoni became Assistant Professor at the University of Perugia in January 2022. The following web page documents the activities of his group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (until 2021) and gives a link to his current research.

Dr. Heyden

Matthias Heyden became Assistant Professor at Arizona State University in October 2017. The following web page documents the activities of his group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (until 2017) and gives a link to his current research.

Dr. Izsák

Róbert Izsák joined the Middlebury College in 2020. The following homepage documents his research in the department of Molecular Theory and Spectroscopy (until 2020) and gives a link to his current research.

Prof. Maulide

Nuno Maulide joined the University of Vienna as Professor of Organic Chemistry in October 2013. The following web page documents the activities of his group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (until 2015) and gives a link to his current research.

Dr. Klussmann

Martin Klussmann has left the institute in Summer 2020 and is now working as Senior R&D Chemist at Borchers, Langenfeld. His e-mail address is: martin.klussmann@borchers.com. This webpage documents the activities of his group at the MPI für Kohlenforschung (until 2020).

Prof. Morandi

Bill Morandi joined the ETH Zurich in 2018 as Professor of Organic Chemistry. The following website documents the activities of the group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (until 2018) and gives a link to his current research.

Prof. Palkovits

Regina Palkovits joined RWTH Aachen as Professor of Heterogeneous Catalysis and Technical Chemistry in 2010. The following web page documents the activities of her group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (until 2010) and gives a link to her current research.

Prof. Pörschke

Klaus-Richard Pörschke was Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung until 2016. The following web page documents the activities of his group (until 2016).

Dr. Prieto

Gonzalo Prieto joined the Institute of Chemical Technology (ITQ) in Valencia in 2017 as Senior Tenured Scientist of the Spanish Research Council. The following website documents the activities of the group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (until 2017) and gives a link to his current research.

Dr. Rinaldi

Roberto Rinaldi became Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Imperial College London in 2015. The following web page documents the activities of his group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (until 2015) and gives a link to his current research.

Dr. Römelt

Michael Roemelt became Emmy Noether Group Leader at the Ruhr Universität Bochum in 2018. The following web page documents the activities of his group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung and gives a link to his current research.

Prof. Sánchez-García

Elsa Sánchez-García became Professor of Computational Biochemistry at the Center of Medical Biotechnology of Duisburg-Essen University in 2017 and Computational Bioengineering at the Technische Universität Dortmund in 2023. The following web page documents the activities of her group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (until 2017) and gives a link to her current research.

Dr. Tredwell

Dr. Matthew Tredwell joined the University of Cardiff in 2019. The following web page documents the activities of his group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (until 2019) and gives a link to his current research.