Austria
https://www.tuwien.at/en/tch/imc https://www.tuwien.at/en/tch/pc/model-catalysis-and-applied-catalysis Günther Rupprechter received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Innsbruck (Austria). After being a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (with Gabor A. Somorjai), he became group leader for Laser Spectroscopy and Catalysis at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin (Germany) from 1999 to 2005 (with Hajo Freund). In 2005 he accepted a Full Professorship in Surface and Interface Chemistry at Technische Universität Wien (Austria). His research emphasis is on heterogeneous catalysis, particularly in situ (operando) spectroscopy/microscopy on model and technological catalysts, applied to studies of the mechanisms and kinetics of processes relevant for energy and environment: hydrogen as clean fuel, methane reforming, CO2 hydrogenation and more efficient automotive pollution abatement. In 2005 he received the Jochen Block Award of the German Catalysis Society for “the application of surface science methods to heterogeneous catalysis”. He became corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2012 and Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) in 2023. He is Editorial Board Member of “Catalysis Letters” and “Topics in Catalysis”, and Vice-Chair of the Austrian Catalysis Society. From 2011-2019 he was Director (Speaker) of the FWF Collaborative Research Center (SFB) "Functional Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces (FOXSI)". He is a Principal Investigator of the SFB "Taming Complexity in Materials Modeling (TACO)" and Director of Research of the recently granted FWF Cluster of Excellence "Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage (MECS)". https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8040-1677 https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=de&user=41202L4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate