Curriculum Vitae - Prof. Dr. Uwe Rosenthal

Personals

 

Marital status

married, two children

Date of birth

23.04.1950

Place of birth

Packebusch (Altmark)

Academic Education

1968 - 1972

Study of chemistry at the University of Rostock

1972

Diploma thesis with Helmut Zinner at the University of Rostock

1976

Promotion (Dr. rer. nat.; equiv.: PhD) with Erhard Kurras at the University of  Rostock

1988

Visiting Scientist with Mark E. Vol'pin and Vladimir B. Shur at the Nesmeyanov Institute for Organoelement Compounds at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow 

1989

Promotion (Dr. sc. nat.; equiv.: DSc) at the University of Rostock

1991

Habilitation (Dr. habil.) and assignation of the "facultas docendi"

1990 - 1991

Visiting Scientist with Günther Wilke and Klaus Pörschke at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim/Ruhr

Profession

 

1973 - 1976

Temporary scientific co-worker at the Central Institute for Organic Chemistry at the Academy of Sciences, Division of Complex Catalysis, in Rostock

1977 - 1991

Permanent scientific co-worker at  the Central Institute for Organic Chemistry at the Academy of Sciences, Division of Complex Catalysis, in Rostock

1992 - 1996

Appointment as head of the working group „Complex Catalysis“ of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft at the University Rostock

1994

Appointment as University Professor for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Rostock

1997

Head of the section „Complex Catalysis“ at the Institut für Organische Katalyseforschung (IfOK) at the University of  Rostock

2003 - 2005

Deputy Director at the Institut für Organische Katalyseforschung (IfOK) at the University of  Rostock

2006 - 2015

 

since 2023

Deputy Director of the Leibniz Institut for Catalysis (LIKAT) at the University of Rostock

retired

Awards and other Activities

1982

Award of the Central Institute for Organic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences (together with Wolfgang Schulz)

1997

Award for Organometallic Chemistry of the Nesmeyanov Institute for Organoelement Compounds at the Russian Academy of Sciences of the USSR (together with Vladimir V. Burlakov, Vladimir B. Shur and Andreas Ohff)

2003 - 2005

Advisory Editorial Board Member "Organometallics”

2005 - 2010

Speaker of the Research Training Group 1213 „New Methods for Sustainability in Catalysis and Technology“ of the German Science Foundation

2005 - 2013

Fachkollegiat and member of the Scientific Forum for Chemistry of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for "Molecular Inorganic Chemistry "