Prof. Dr. Stefanie Dehnen

Insti­tute of Nanotech­nol­ogy, Karlsruhe Insti­tute of Technology

Profes­sor Stefanie Dehnen of the Karlsruhe Insti­tute of Technol­ogy is an expert for highly innov­a­tive, extremely sophis­ti­cated, and also sustain­able inorganic and organoele­ment synthe­sis. She has made signif­i­cant contri­bu­tions to the chemistry of cluster compounds and their creative exten­sions to mater­ial science.

Clusters are atomi­cally-precise key linkers between small metal complexes and much larger, yet atomi­cally undefined nano-parti­cles. Clusters can help to solve future problems regard­ing energy trans­fer or storage and sustain­able synthe­sis, and they also serve to eluci­date relevant funda­men­tal knowl­edge of chemi­cal bonding and reactiv­ity, which is criti­cal to a sustain­able design of innov­a­tive functional materi­als for future applications.

Stefanie Dehnen is a member of seven national and inter­na­tional scien­tific acade­mies, includ­ing Leopoldina–German National Academy of Sciences, European Academy of Sciences and Acade­mia Europaea. She received many awards, includ­ing the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Founda­tion (DFG) and an ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council.

Inorganic Chemistry, Materi­als Chemistry

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