FACULTY OF Chemistry

PROF. DR. MARTIN MUHLER, Laboratory of Industrial Chemistry

Martin Muhler studied Chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and received his PhD in 1989 from Freie Universität Berlin supervised by Prof. Dr. G. Ertl at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society.
After postdoctoral research at Haldor Topsoe A/S in Denmark (1989–1991), he returned to the Fritz Haber Institute and completed his habilitation at TU Berlin in 1996. In 1996 he was appointed to his current position of full professor in Industrial Chemistry at Ruhr University Bochum. His research aims at identifying active sites and elementary steps to understand reaction mechanisms on solid surfaces for a knowledge-based development of catalysts applied in syngas conversion, selective oxidation and reduction as well as electro-, photo- and plasmacatalysis. Plasma-catalyst interactions are studied in surface dielectric barrier discharges. He is the vice speaker of CRC/TRR 247 and CRC 1316, and he is Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion.

Keywords: Heterogeneous redox catalysis, catalyst development, plasma-catalyst interactions

Webpage: Experimental Physics V