Previous group leaders
Overview
Group leaders at the Institute perform independent research and are usually offered faculty positions at universities after a few years. The links below lead to their current web pages. For the group leaders that have left the Institute since 2010, there are additional separate web pages describing their activities during the time at the Institute (see the names under the heading Research).
List of junior group leaders that accepted calls from universities since 2000:
| 2000 | Wilhelm Maier | University of Saarbrücken (DE) |
| 2002 | Walter Leitner | RWTH Aachen, now MPI for Chemical Energy Conversion (DE) |
| 2004 | Götz Veser | University of Pittsburgh (USA) |
| 2004 | Lukas Gooßen | TU Kaiserslautern, now University of Bochum (DE) |
| 2004 | Frank Glorius | University of Marburg, now University of Münster (DE) |
| 2005 | Detlev Belder | Universiy of Regensburg, now University of Leipzig (DE) |
| 2006 | Stefan Hecht | Humboldt-University Berlin (DE) |
| 2007 | Michael Bühl | University of St. Andrews (UK) |
| 2007 | Cristina Nevado | University of Zürich (CH) |
| 2008 | Oliver Trapp | University of Heidelberg, now LMU München (DE) |
| 2008 | An-Hui Lu | Dalian University of Technology (CN) |
| 2010 | Regina Palkovits | RWTH Aachen (DE) |
| 2013 | Nuno Maulide | University of Vienna (AT) |
| 2015 | Manuel Alcarazo | University of Göttingen (DE) |
| 2015 | Roberto Rinaldi | Imperial College London (UK) |
| 2015 | Mario Barbatti | Aix-Marseille Université (FR) |
| 2017 | Elsa Sánchez-García | University of Duisburg-Essen (DE) |
| 2017 | Matthias Heyden | Arizona State University (USA) |
