Prof. Dr. Lutz Ackermann
Full Professor, Institute for Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry; Director, Wöhler Research Institute for Sustainable Chemistry, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany; Associate Editor, Chemical Communications
Lutz Ackermann studied Chemistry at the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel (Germany), and wrote his PhD with Prof. Alois Fürstner at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Mülheim an der Ruhr, 2001). After a postdoctoral stay at UC Berkeley with Prof. Robert G. Bergman, he initiated his independent research career in 2003 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. In 2007, he became Full Professor (W3) at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. His recent awards and distinctions include an AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award (2011), an ERC Consolidator Grant (2012), a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis (2017) and an ERC Advanced Grant (2021). The development and application of novel concepts for sustainable catalysis constitute his major current research interests, with a topical focus on electrocatalysis and bond activation.