Fraunhofer Research Institution for Materials Recycling and Resource Strategies IWKSSince October 1, 2018, Prof. Dr. Anke Weidenkaff has been head of Fraunhofer IWKS in Hanau and Alzenau. Previously, she held the Chair of Chemical Materials Synthesis at the Institute of Materials Science at the University of Stuttgart. When she joined the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Materials Recycling and Resource Strategies IWKS, Prof. Weidenkaff was appointed to the Technical University of Darmstadt. Under her leadership, the new subject area "Materials Chemistry/Materials Engineering and Resource Management" will be created.
Prof. Dr. Anke Weidenkaff received her doctorate in chemistry from ETH Zurich in 2000 and received the Venia Legendi for Solid State Chemistry and Materials Science from the University of Augsburg in 2006. She then became Section Head at Empa and Associate Professor at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Since 2013, she has held a chair in materials chemistry at the University of Stuttgart. She has published around 230 SCI-listed publications on materials research in energy conversion technology. Most recently, Prof. Weidenkaff was Director of the Institute of Materials Science at the University of Stuttgart. In addition, she is President of the European Thermoelectric Society (ETS), elected member of the Executive Board of the GDCH Division Solid State Chemistry and Materials Research and of the E-MRS Executive Committee. In 2011 she was awarded the Kavli Foundation Lectureship Prize.
Head of Fraunhofer IWKS
| Professional Life and Work Experience | |
| 2018 | Professor (chair holder materials and resources, W3) at the Technical University of Darmstadt and Director of the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Materials Recycling and Resource Strategies IWKS |
| 2013 - 2018 | Professor (chair holder chemical materials synthesis, W3) at the University of Stuttgart, Germany |
| 2006 - 2013 | Head of the Laboratory for Solid State Chemistry and Catalysis, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science & Technology Dübendorf, Switzerland |
| 2008 - 2013 | Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 2007 - 2008 | Private lecturer PD, University of Augsburg, Germany |
| 2003 - 2006 | Head of Solid State Chemistry Group, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research Dübendorf, Switzerland |
| 2003 | Visiting professor, University of Caen, France |
| 1999 - 2003 | Research scientist/assistant professor (C1 position) at the Solid State Chemistry, Physics Department, University of Augsburg, Germany |
| 1996 - 1999 | Employment, Paul Scherrer Institut PSI, Villigen, Switzerland |
| 1988 | Employment, St. Cosmas Pharmacy, Endoklinik, Hamburg, Germany |
| Education | |
| 2006 | Venia legendi in “Solid State Chemistry” , Habilitation at the University of Augsburg, Germany |
| 1999 | Ph.D. in Chemistry at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
| 1996 | Diploma in Chemistry (1.0) University of Hamburg, Germany |
| 1988 | Technical diploma in Pharmacy, School for Chemistry and Pharmacy, Lüneburg, Germany |
| International Recognition and Activities | |
| 2019 | Chair of the European Materials Research Society E-MRS IUMRS ICAM spring meeting |
| 2019 | Curatorium member of Fraunhofer ISE |
| 2016 | Advisory board member and spokesperson Science and Technology of Nanosystems (STN) and Karlsruhe Nano Micro Facility (KNMF), Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft |
| 2016 - 2019 | President of the European Thermoelectric Society ETS |
| 2015 - 2017 | Board of Directors, Materials Research Society MRS |
| 2014 | Member of the International Max Planck Research School for Condensed Matter Science IMPRS-CMS |
| 2013 | Co-chair of the European Materials Research Society E-MRS spring meeting |
| 2012 | Editor in chief (2013) and editorial board member of “Energy Quarterly”. Advisory Board Member MRS Book Series on Energy and Sustainability |
| 2012 | Executive committee member of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) |
| 2011 - 2014 | Swiss delegate in the EuCheMS Working Group on Solid State Chemistry |
| 2011 | Kavli Foundation Lectureship Award |
| 2011 | Scientific Advisory Board member GreenTEG GmbH, Zürich, Switzerland |
| 2011 - 2013 | President of the Swiss Thermoelectric Society |
| 2011 | Curatorium member of the Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum FMF |
| 2009 - 2014 | Executive Board Member of the SNF NCCR MaNEP |
| 2008 - 2009 | Swiss delegate in the EU programme commission NMP |
| 2008 | Visiting professor, Case Western Reserve University and visiting scientist NASA Glenn Research Centre, Cleveland, USA (Dr. A. Sayir) |
| 2007 | Member of the Board Directors of the European Thermoelectric Society (ETS) |
| 2003 | Visiting professor, University of Caen, France and visiting scientist, Laboratory CRISMAT, Caen, France |
| 2000 - 2003 | Delegate of the research staff in faculty board, promotion and award committees at University of Augsburg |
| 2000 - 2009 | Member of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 484 „Cooperative Phenomena in Solids“, University of Augsburg |
| 2000 | Project leader of diverse DFG, SNF, KTI and European research projects and host for Humboldt-Fellows Projects on the development and synthesis of Electroceramics with perovskite-type structures and intermetallic phases such as half Heusler compounds led to some 250 SCI rated publications on materials research in energy conversion technologies |
| 1999 - 2000 | SolarPACES Award and Scholarship 1998, Odeillo-Font Romeu, Institut de Science et de Génie des Matériaux et Procédés (CNRS-IMP), Materials Research Group, France |
| 1998 | Guest Scientist, Weizmann Institute of Technology, Solar Research Facilities, Rehovot, Israel |
| 1996 - 1997 | Research stay, University of Zürich, Solid State Chemistry, Zürich, Switzerland |
| 1994 | Erasmus Scholarship, University of Rennes, Laboratory for Catalysis and Coordination Chemistry, Rennes, France. Polymer synthesis in metathesis reactions |
| 1993 | Erasmus Scholarship, University of Oviedo, Department for Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, Spain. Development of homogeneous Ru catalysts for organic synthesis methods |
| Full list of publications on Google Scholar |
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