Joachim Sauer
Institute für Chemie, Humboldt.Universität zu Berlin
Blaise Pascal Medal in Chemistry | AL3
Joachim Sauer is Senior Researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin where he was Professor of Theoretical Chemistry from 1993 – 2017. He has got the Dr. rer. nat. degree in Chemistry from Humboldt University in (East-)Berlin in 1974.
He is known for development and applications of quantum chemical methods in surface science, adsorption and catalysis. He has published more than 400 research papers, notably in the area of modeling the structure and reactivity of transition metal oxides, zeolites and metal-organic frameworks, and he has given 525 invited lectures.
Among other awards, he has received the Schrödinger medal of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists, the Francis Gault Lectureship of the European Catalysis Societies, and the ACS Award 2023 in Surface Chemistry. He is member of the German National Academy Leopoldina, Foreign Member of the Royal Society and International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Web-link: https://www.chemie.hu-berlin.de/de/forschung/quantenchemie/Group/js-1/js_cv