Contact

Prof. Dr. Andreas Türler
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Bern
Freiestrasse 3
CH-3012 Bern
Switzerland

and
Paul Scherrer Institute
Laboratory for Radiochemistry and Environmental Chemistry
CH-5232 Villigen

Berne
Phone: +41 31 631 4264
FAX: +41 31 631 4220
E-Mail: andreas.tuerler@dcb.unibe.ch

PSI
Phone: +41 56 310 2404
FAX: +41 56 310 4435
E-Mail: andreas.tuerler@psi.ch
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Secretary
Franziska Bornhauser
Phone: +41 31 631 43 61
Fax: +41 31 631 42 72
E-Mail: franziska.bornhauser@dcb.unibe.ch

Current Research Interests

Synthesis and chemistry of superheavy elements, radionuclides for medical applications, radioanalytical chemistry, surface chemistry with positron emitters as tracers, and reconstruction of past atmospheric composition using glacier ice archives.

CV

• 1980-1985: Chemistry studies at Bern University (dipl.chem.)

• 1985-1989: Doctoral thesis ("Heavy ion reactions of 18O, 40Ca and 44Ca with 248Cm at energies near the Coulomb barrier"), research assistant at Bern university, staff scientist at Paul Scherrer Institute.

• 1989-1992: Post-Doc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California (Gas-phase chemistry of rutherfordium and dubnium).

• 1992-2001: Staff scientist at Paul Scherrer Institute (Gas-phase chemistry of Seaborgium (Z=106), Bohrium (Z=107) and Hassium (Z=108)).

• 1994: "Fritz Strassmann Preis" awarded by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, Fachgruppe Nuklearchemie.

• 2000: Habilitation (venia legendi) at Bern University in "Nuclear Chemistry".

• 2000: GSI Exotic Nuclei Community (GENCO) membership award.

• 2001-2009: Full Professor for Radiochemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität München (TUM) and director of the Insitute for Radiochemistry.

• Since 2007: Chairman of the Fachgruppe Nuklearchemie, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker.

• Since 2009: Full professor for Radiochemistry at Bern University and head of the Laboratory for Radiochemistry and Environmental Chemistry at Paul Scherrer Institute.

• Memberships: Advisory board, research center Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD); Advisory board, Radiochimica Acta.