Award Winner 2024: Max Martin Hansmann
Max Martin Hansmann
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He is honored for his pioneering work on previously unknown reactive intermediates and novel redox systems.
Max Martin Hansmann has been professor of organic chemistry at TU Dortmund University since completing his tenure-track junior professorship at the institution in 2023. He was awarded a summa cum laude distinction for his doctoral studies, completed in 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. A. S. K. Hashmi at the University of Heidelberg in the field of homogeneous gold catalysis. He then conducted postdoctoral research with Prof. Dr. Guy Bertrand at the University of California in San Diego (USA) before founding his first independent junior research group at the University of Göttingen in 2018. His research focuses on the synthesis and properties of fundamentally new classes of compounds based on the element carbon as well as the synthesis of new organic redox systems and their applicability with regard to photocatalysis and energy storage.
Hansmann has been awarded numerous prizes and grants for his research, including an ERC Starting Grant (2022), the Lecturer Award of the Chemical Industry Fund (2022), and the Ernst Haage Prize of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (2021).