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MICHAEL WARK

Title of presentation:

Ferrites for photocatalytic degradation and photoelectrochemical water splitting


born: September 22nd 1963 in Bremen, Germany

Academic Education:
10/83 - 7/89:
Study of Chemistry, University of Bremen, Germany
Master thesis in Inorganic and Physical Chemistry,
Title: Synthesis and characterization of CdS/Pt-loaded faujasites
11/89 - 5/93:
Dr. rer.nat. (PhD) (summa cum laude), University of Bremen, Germany,
Title of the PhD thesis: Highly dispersed semiconductor particles stabilized by zeolite matrices - The influence of the particle size of the semiconductor particles on their structure, stability and spectroscopic behaviour
10/90 - 12/90:
Research visit at the Central Institute of Physical Chemistry in Berlin, Germany, Research partners: Prof. Dr. M. Bülow, Dr. W. Lutz

Professional Career:
10/93 - 9/94:
Post-doctoral fellow, Ecole Nationale Supérieur de Chimie de Mulhouse, France, Research partners: Prof. Dr. J.-L. Guth, Prof. Dr. H. Kessler
11/94 - 9/95:
Post-doctoral fellow, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany, Research partners: Prof. Dr. B. Boddenberg, Prof. W. Grünert
10/95 – 1/02:
Junior scientist (to qualify as a university lecturer), Institute of Applied and Physical Chemistry, University of Bremen, Germany
2/02 – 12/10:
Lecturer (Akademischer Oberrat) with own research group at the Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry (head: Prof. Dr. J. Caro), Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
7/04:
Venia legendi in Physical Chemistry, Leibniz University of Hannover, Title of Habilitation thesis: Dye molecules and semiconductor nanoparticles in the pores of molecular sieves – Influence on host/guest and guest/guest interactions on the optical properties
10/04:
Appointment to a “Privatdozent” at the Leibniz University Hannover
7/07:
Appointment to an “associate professor” (Apl.-Prof.) at the Leibniz University Hannover
1/11 – 8/13:
University Full Professor in Industrial Chemistry in the Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
since 9/13:
University Full Professor in Chemical Technology, head of the group “Photocatalysis and sustainable feedstock utilization”, Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany

Short term research visits:
1. J. Heyrovsky-Institute for Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague, several stays between 1997 and 2009
2. Department for Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, in 1999 and 2000

• Invited talks, oral and poster presentations on more than 150 national and international conferences. More than 60 invited talks at universities and research institutes

• Author and co-author of about 170 peer-reviewed scientific papers and 10 reviews in scientific books and international journals; h-index: 31