Jörg Libuda - Biography#

Jörg Libuda is an internationally renowned expert in the field of chemistry and physics of interfaces and nanomaterials. His research focuses on the fundamental understanding of new materials and emerging technologies in heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis, energy technology, photochemistry, and electronic devices. His primary research mission is to link fundamental research to applied process development in these fields.

Jörg Libuda studied chemistry at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany (Diploma 1993, with highest distinction; Dr. rer. nat, 1996, with highest distinction). He held a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society. Later, he became research group leader at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany (Dept. of Chemical Physics, 1996-2005), was a researcher at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA (1998-1999), and received his habilitation in 2003 from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. In 2005, he accepted a professorship at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). Since 2019, he holds the chair of Interface Research and Catalysis and is head of the Erlangen Center of Interface Research at FAU.

Prof Libuda authored more than 280 publications in peer-reviewed journals (WOS: >10000 citations, h-index 57, including many publications in highest ranked journals). His track record comprises leading roles in large research programs at the national/international level (spokesperson/vice spokesperson of Collaborative Research Centers/Research Units), guest editorships, appointments to evaluations committees of large research initiatives and research institutes, and the organization of international conferences. Also, he has a strong track record in the support of early career researchers (head of interdisciplinary centers at FAU, approx. 40 PhD students, >60 Master/Bachelor students, postdocs including AvH grantees).