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Chair of Technical Chemistry und Petrochemistry and External Scientific Member of the Max-Planck-Institute for Coal Research |
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Born 1963; 1989 PhD, Regensburg (H. Brunner);
1990 Post-Doc Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Oxford (J. M. Brown);
1991-1992 Liebig Scholar, Regensburg;
1992-1995 Max-Planck-Arbeitsgruppe CO2-Chemie,
Jena (E. Dinjus);
Habilitation 1995, Jena;
since 1995 Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim/Ruhr and
Lecturer at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena,
since 1998 supervisor of the central high pressure and large scale synthesis facilities of the MPI für
Kohlenforschung (Technical Laboratories).
Since april 2000 acting director of the Lehrstuhl for Chemie and Petrochemie at the
RWTH Aachen.
Since
February 2002 Dr. Leitner holds the chair of Technical Chemistry and Petrochemistry at RWTH Aachen (successor to Prof. Keim).
December 2002: Appointment
as Auswärtiges Wissenschaftliches Mitglied of the Max-Planck-Instituts für
Kohlenforschung.
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Scholarships and Awards:
Liebig Scholar of the Fonds der chemischen Industrie 1991-1992
Gerhard-Hess-Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 1997
Bennigsen-Foerder-Award of Nordrhein-Westfalen 1998
Carl-Zerbe-Award of the Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Erdöl, Erdgas und Kohle 1998
2. International Messer Innovation Award 2000
Otto-Roelen-Medaille
2001
Griess Lectureship of the Royal Society of Chemistry
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Mechanisms and models in homogenous catalysis |
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Organometallic compounds as selective reagents and catalysts |
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CO2-Activation |
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Catalysis in supercritical CO2 |
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Report 2000 - 2001 |
Last update: November 2004