Detlef Werner Bahnemann#
| Membership Number: | 5789 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | RUSSIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=de&pli=1&user=OmVqc-IAAAAJ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6064-6653 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since May 2023 Distinguished Professor at Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, Xi’an (Peoples Republic of China)
- Since January 2025 Director of the Joint International Center for Nature Inspired Carbon Neutrality Solutions at St. Petersburg State University (Russian Federation)
- January 2014 - December 2024 Director of Megagrant Laboratory "Photoactive Nanocomposite Materials" at St. Petersburg State University (Russian Federation)
- May 2002 - November 2021 Head of Photocatalysis and Nanotechnology Research Unit at the Institute of Technical Chemistry, Leibniz University of Hannover (Germany)
- March 1988 - April 2002 Department Head of the Photochemistry and Thin Film Technology Department at the Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hannover (Germany)
- March 1985 - Apr. 1987 Visiting Associate at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (USA) with Prof. M. R. Hoffmann in the Department of Environmental Engineering
- Sept. 1981 - Feb. 1988 Senior Scientist at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute Berlin with Prof. A. Henglein
- Nov. 1977 - June 1981 Research Scientist at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute Berlin with Prof. K.-D. Asmus
Fields of Scholarship
- Photoelectrochemistry
- Photocatalysis
- Nanotechnology
- Catalysis
- Solar Fuels
- Radiation Chemistry
Honours and Awards
- 2002 Honorary Professorship at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen/Scotland (United Kingdom)
- 2011 Erudite Professorship, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam (India)
- 2012 DeTao Master of Photocatalysis, Nanomaterials and Energy Applications (China)
- 2013 Guest Professorship at the Tianjin University in Tianjin (China)
- 2014 Honorary Professorship at Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science (China)
- 2015 Visiting Professor under Academic Icon Programme to the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Malaya in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
- 2015 Visiting Research Professor in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queens University Belfast (UK)
- 2016 Visiting Professor in the Chemistry Department, College of Science, University of Dammam (Saudi Arabia)
- 2017 Medal "To the Memory of Academician N. M. Emanuel" presented by the Russian Academy of Sciences and M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian Federation)
- 2019 Visiting Research Professor in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queens University Belfast (UK)
- 2020 Visiting Scholar in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queens University Belfast (United Kingdom)
- 2021 Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC)
