Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Joachim Sauer Name: Joachim Sauer Born: 19 April 1949 photo: Agentur van ryck (Vincent Leifer) Main Research Interests: Quantum chemistry of large chemical system, solid catalysts, zeolites, transition metal oxides, heterogeneous catalysis, structure and reactivity of oxide clusters Academic and Professional Career since 1993 Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at Humboldt-University, Berlin, 1992 - 1996 Max Planck Society; Head of the Quantum Chemistry Group at Humboldt-University, Berlin 1990 - 1991 Deputy Technical Director Catalysis and Sorption, BIOSYM Technologies, San Diego, USA 1990 - 1991 Group Leader, Zentralinstitut für physikalische Chemie, Berlin 1986 - 1989 Group Leader, Zentralinstitut für physikalische Chemie, Berlin 1985 Dr. sc. nat., Academy of Sciences, Berlin 1977 - 1991 Academy of Sciences, Central Institute of Physical Chemistry, Berlin 1977 - 1985 Researcher, Zentralinstitut für physikalische Chemie, Berlin 1974 Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude) Humboldt University, Berlin 1973 - 1976 Researcher, Humboldt-University, Berlin 1967 - 1972 Studies of chemistry, Humboldt-University, Berlin Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina www.leopoldina.org 1 Project coordination, Membership in Collaborative Research Projects 2008 - 2011 Cluster of Exzellence UNICAT, German Research Foundation (DFG), executive board, principal investigator and coordinator of area A 1999 - 2011 Coordinator, Center of Colloborative Research 546, German Research Foundation (DFG) Functions in Scientific Societies and Committees since 2012 Minerva Foundation, Center Committee since 2011 Board of Trustees, Friede Springer Foundation since 2008 European Research Council, panel member PE4B since 2007 Board of Trustees, German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing since 2006 Wilhelmy Klung Weberbank Prize, Chemistry committee since 2004 Scientific Advisory Board, Alfried Krupp College Greifswald 2004 - 2012 German Research Foundation, Review Board "Chemical Solid State Research" 1999 - 2011 Scientific Advisory Board, Max Planck Institute of Coal Research, Mülheim / Ruhr 1998 - 2003 Minerva Foundation, Center Committee 1997 Funds of the Chemical Industries (der Chemischen Industrie) 1996 - 2000 German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry, Permanent Committee Honours and Awarded Memberships 2020 Bunsen-Denkmünze, Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für physikalische Chemie since 2018 Foreign Member of the Royal Society 2012 Liebig Commemorative Coin of the German Chemical Society 2009 Kolos Medal and Lecture Award of the University of Warsaw and the Polish Chemical Society 2009 Member, Academia Europaea 2007 Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2006 External scientific member Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society 1995 Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities 1991 Chemistry Award, Academy of Sciences of Göttingen 1991 Lecturer Grant of the Funds of the Chemical Industries (der Chemischen Industrie), Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina www.leopoldina.org 2 1982 Friedrich Wöhler Award of the Chemical Society of the GDR Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina www.leopoldina.org 3 .