Professor from Berkeley will be honored in Mülheim

F. Dean Toste announced as new Karl Ziegler Guest Professor at the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung

The Karl Ziegler Professorship at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung is intended to honor recognized scientists. It is also about the exchange with young researchers. This year, F. Dean Toste is a guest at the institute.

In order to preserve the memory of scientist Prof. Karl Ziegler from Mülheim, his wife Maria and his daughter Marianne established a foundation in 1978, the Karl Ziegler Foundation. The aim of this foundation is to invite outstanding scientists from all over the world to Mülheim as guest lecturers. On the one hand, this is meant to honor outstanding chemists for their achievements, on the other hand, these awardees are invited to inspire the many young scientists working on the Max-Planck Campus in Mülheim.

Until now 32 researchers have visited the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung as part of their Karl Ziegler Visiting Professorship, including many who later won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This year, there is once again a Karl Ziegler Visiting Professor. It is F. Dean Toste, who is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

To invite Toste as Guest Lecturer was an easy choice for the directors of the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung. "We want to award him for his pioneering contributions to homogeneous catalysis," reveals Ferdi Schüth, executive director, about the colleague from Berkeley. "In particular, the development and his understanding of molecular gold catalysts distinguish Toste as a brilliant researcher." Catalysts will also play a major role in his keynote lecture, which F. Dean Toste will deliver on Tuesday, May 16, at the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung.

F. Dean Toste: Supramolecular Catalysts as "Artificial Enzymes"
Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 4 p.m.
Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung
Grand Lecture Hall, Lembkestraße 7, 45470 Mülheim, Germany

The lecture by F. Dean Toste (in English) is open to the public. Admission is free of charge and without prior registration.