Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Rieger
WACKER-Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry (Ordinarius)
WACKER-Institute of Silicon Chemistry (Director)
Tel.: +49 (0) 89 289 13571
email: rieger(at)tum.de
orcid id: 0000-0002-0023-884X / researcher id: C-1183-2010
Science Career: | |
| since 2007 | Professor Ordinarius, WACKER-Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry and Director of the Institute of Silicon Chemistry at TU München |
| 1997 - 2006 | Professor Ordinarius, Department Materials & Catalysis, University of Ulm |
| 1995 -1997 | Professor of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry at University of Ulm (C3) |
| 1991 - 1995 | Habilitation (Anorganic Chemistry) at the University of Tübingen |
| 1989 - 1991 | Researcher at the Polymers Laboratory of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen |
| 1988 - 1989 | Postdoc, Univ. of Massachusetts, Dept. of Polymer Science & Engineering |
| 1988 | PhD, Dr.rer.nat., LMU (Grade: "Summa cum laude"). |
| 1986 | Diplom in Chemie, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (LMU) |
| 2015 | Director of IRTG 2022 "ATUMS" - Alberta/TUM International Graduate School for Functional Hybrid Materials, government-funded by DFG |
Memberships and Awards: | |
| since 10.2021 | Member of Senate of TUM and of the TUM Board of Trustees |
| since 10.2020 | Scientific Program Chair of Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), Eindhoven University of Technology (Focus: Polyolefine) |
| 2016-2019 | Chair of the TU Munich Senate |
| 2013-2019 | Member of Senate of TUM and of the TUM Board of Trustees |
| 2013-2020 | Member of Scientific Beirat des Max-Planck-Instituts für Kolloide und Grenzflächenforschung, Golm |
| 2010 | Member Intl. Advisory Board “Sustainable Materials” CS3 Whitepaper "A Sustainable Global Society" (USA, GB, France, Germany, Japan, China) |
| 2003 - 2006 | Board Member of University of Ulm |
| 1998 – 2005 | Managing Director of the SciTech Patent Exploitation Company at University of Ulm |
| 2013 | Member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering "acatech", Germany |
| 2013 | Wöhler-Preis für Nachhaltige Chemie |
| 2011 | Member of the European Academy of Science, Belgium |
| 2008 | Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters |
| 2007 | Dr. h.c. phil, Helsinki University |
| 2007 | Germany – Land of Ideas, Selected Place 2007 |
| 2006 | Philip-Morris Research Award “Bionic Materials” |
| 2000 | University of Ulm Award “Exceptional Cooperations between Academia and Industry” |
| 1997 | Award for Advanced Student Education of the State of Baden-Württemberg |
| 1986 - 1988 | Ph.D. Scholarship from the German Chemical Industry Association (Verband der Chemischen Industrie) |
| 1988 - 1989 | Postdoc Scholarship from BASF Aktiengesellschaft |
| 1991 - 1993 | Liebig Scholarship for Habilitation (German Chemical Industry Association) |
| 1993 - 1995 | DFG Scholarship for Habilitation |