Curriculum Vitae - Dr. Christoph Kubis

Academic Education and Profession

since 12/2020

Group leader in the department Catalytical In-Situ Studies (Prof. Dr. A. Brückner) at the Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis e.V. (LIKAT). Topic: Optical Spectroscopy and Thermoanalytical Methods

06/2012 – 11/2020

Scientific employee in the department Hydrogenations and Hydroformylations (Prof. Dr. A. Börner) at the Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis e.V. (LIKAT). Research area: In-situ IR/NMR-spectroscopy for the study of kinetic and mechanistic aspects of carbonylation reactions.

Cooperation betw. LIKAT and Evonik Operations GmbH

BMBF-Projekt KATAPLASMA (01/2016 – 06/2019)

BMBF-Projekt PROFORMING (06/2012 – 12/2015)

11/2007 – 05/2012

PhD research studies in the department Vibrational Spectroscopy in Catalysis at Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis e.V. (LIKAT) and the Institute for Physical Chemistry of the University of Rostock (Prof. Dr. R. Ludwig). Topic: „Kinetic studies on hydroformylation with phosphite-modified rhodium-catalysts using in situ IR-spectroscopy

04/2007 – 08/2007

 

Diploma thesis at OXENO Olefinchemie GmbH (Degussa), Marl. Topic: “A new catalyst system for the hydroformylation with highly regioselective properties: exploration of the technical potential and kinetic investigations 

11/2005 – 03/2006

Traineeship at Aqura GmbH (Degussa) in Marl in the area mass spectrometry and chromatography, tasks: characterization of polymers using pyrolysis-GC/MS and separation of polar components using HPLC.
04/2005 – 10/2005 Student assistant at the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, task: SEC-HPLC for the separation of polymers
07/2003 – 08/2003 Traineeship at the Hygiene-Institut des Ruhrgebiets in Gelsenkirchen 
in the area of clinical chemistry, task: method development for quantification of benzodiazepines with HPLC
08/2002 – 08/2007 Study of chemistry at the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences

Awards and other activities

 

Member of the “Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker“ (GDCh)

  Member of the process analytical group in the section “Analytical Chemistry” of the GDCh
 

Member of „Deutsche Gesellschaft für Katalyse“ (GeCatS)