Hans-Joachim Freund#
| Membership Number: | 1728 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1996 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/cp/hjf.epl |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 1996: Director and Scientific Member, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- 1987 - 1996: Professor, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- 1983 - 1987: Associate Professor, Universität Erlangen
- 1983: Private Docent, Universität zu Köln
- 1981 - 1983: Scientific Assistant, Universität zu Köln
- 1979 - 1981: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania and Xerox Corporation, Webster
- 1978 - 1979: Scientific Assistant, Universität zu Köln
- 1975 - 1978: Teacher, Gymnasium Solingen
- 1983: Habilitation (Private Docent), Universität zu Köln
- 1978: Dissertation (PhD), Universität zu Köln, with G. Hohlneicher
- 1975:Diplom (M.Sc. in chemistry and physics), Universität zu Köln
Fields of Scholarship
- physical chemistry at surfaces and interfaces
- development of instruments and techniques
- studies on model catalysts
- nanoscience, ultra-thin-oxide films, molecular beams, spectromicroscopy
- photoinduced processes at surfaces , scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy
Honours and Awards
- Fellowships during undergraduate and graduate studies of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (1974 - 1977)
- Post doctoral fellowship of the German Research Foundation (1979 - 1981)
- Leibniz-Award of the German Research Foundation, DFG (1995)
- Regular Member of the Chemical Section, Academia Europaea (since 1996)
- Honorary Professor at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (since 1997)
- Honorary Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin (since 1997)
- Honorary Professor at the Technische Universität Berlin (since 1997)
- Honorary Professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (since 1998)
- Regular Member, Berlin-Brandenburgische Academy of Sciences (since 1998)
- Fellow of the American Physical Society (2001)
- Frontiers in Chemistry Lecturer, Texas A&M University (2001)
- Ford Motor Company Invitational Lecture Series, Ford Research Laboratory (2001)
- William Draper Harkins Lecturer, University of Chicago (2002)
- Foreign Member of the Academia Brasileira de Ciências (since 2004)
- Research Award in Gold, Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (2004 - 2006)
- Fellow of the Institute of Physics, United Kingdom (since 2005)
- Malcolm Dole Lecturer, Northwestern University, USA (2005)
- Langmuir Lecturer, 230th ACS Meeting, USA (2005)
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Fund of the German Chemical Industry (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie) (since 2006)
- Centenary Lecturer, Royal Society of Chemistry (2006/2007)
- Honorary Professor at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham (since 2006)
- Research Award in Gold, Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (2006 - 2008)
- Gabor A. Somorjai Award of the American Chemical Society for Creative Research in Catalysis (2007)
- V. N. Ipatieff Lecturer, Northwestern University Center for Catalysis and Surface Science (2008)
- Invitational Lecture Series, UOP Honeywell (2008)
- Hassel Lecture of the Norwegian Chemical Society (2008)
- Regular Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle, Germany (since 2009)
