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Prof. Dr. Martin Albrecht
Contact
Prof. Dr. Martin Albrecht
Departement für Chemie und Biochemie
Universität Bern
Freiestrasse 3
CH-3012 Bern
Switzerland
Phone:
FAX:
E-Mail: martin.albrecht@dcb.unibe.ch
Web: http://www.ucd.ie/chem/staff/profmartinalbrecht/
Secretary
Brigitte Oggier
Phone: +41 31 631 42 21
FAX: +41 31 631 43 99
E-Mail: brigitte.oggier@dcb.unibe.ch
Current Research Interests
We are strongly interested in exploiting molecular properties of transition metals that are located in a precisely defined environment, as this makes them widely useful as active sites in chemistry, biology and materials science. The activity of these metal centers can be altered and tuned by selective modifications of the ligand sphere, hence providing a versatile methodology to tailor their application range. Three aspects of this exciting area of research are currently under investigation:
- Implementation of organometallic components as active sites in materials
- Development of new catalytic systems for the activation of unreactive bonds
- Use of supramolecular principles for tailoring metal-centered processes.
In addition, we are interested in investigating the relevance of carbene-type bonding motifs in biological systems.
CV
- 1991 - 1996 MSc University of Bern
- 1996 - 2000 PhD with Gerard van Koten, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- 2001 - 2003 Postdoctoral research with Bob Crabtree, Yale University, and at Ciba SC, Basel
- 2003 - 2009 Assistant Professor, Univ. Fribourg
- 2009 - 2015 Professor of Chemistry, University College Dublin
- 2013 Bessel Award (Humboldt Foundation)
- 2014 - 2018 ERC Consolidator Grant
- since February 2015 Professor of Chemistry, Dept. f. Chemie und Biochemie, Univ. Bern