Thomas Bein received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and the Catholic University Leuven (Belgium) in 1984. He continued his studies as Visiting Scientist at the DuPont Central Research and Development Department in Wilmington, DE (USA). From 1986 to 1991 he was Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque (USA). In 1991 he joined Purdue University (Indiana) as Associate Professor, and was promoted to Full Professor of Chemistry in 1995. In 1999 he was appointed Chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Munich (LMU) (Germany), where he also served as Director of the Department of Chemistry.
He has recently won an ERC Advanced Grant entitled “Electroactive Donor-Acceptor Covalent Organic Frameworks”. 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Mesostructured Materials Association, 2020 Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Award of the Royal Spanish Chemical Society (RSEQ). Presently he is LMU-Coordinator of the newly funded National Excellence Cluster “e-conversion”. He is Member of the Editorial Boards of the following scientific journals (past and present): Chemistry of Materials, Microporous Materials, Journal of Porous Materials (from 1997), Chemical Communications, ACS Nano (from 2011), Journal of the American Chemical Society (from 2019), Matter (Cell Press, from 2019), ACS Applied Energy Materials (from 2020)
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| CURRENT POSITION |
| 1999 – | Chair of Physical Chemistry and Nanoscience |
Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Germany PREVIOUS POSITIONS |
| 2012 – 2014 | Director of the Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, (LMU) Germany |
2000 – 2003 | Vice Director (2000-2001) and Director (2001-2003) of the Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Germany |
1995 – 1999 | Full Professor |
Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA 1991 – 1995 | Associate Professor |
Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA 1986 – 1991 | Assistant Professor |
Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA 1984 – 1986 | Visiting Scientist |
DuPont Central Research and Development Department, Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware, USA EDUCATION |
| 1984 | PhD in Physical Chemistry (with Prof. F. Schmidt and Prof. P. A. Jacobs)“Interactions of Iron Clusters with the Zeolite Matrix” |
Department of Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Germany, and Center for Surface Science, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium 1981 | Master (Diplom) in Chemistry |
Department of Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Germany AWARDS AND HONORS |
| 2020 | Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Award of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry |
2018 – 2021 | Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics) |
2018 | Lifetime Achievement Award, International Mesostructured Materials Association |
2015 | Visiting Professor, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK |
2013 – 2018 | ERC Advanced Grant: “Electroactive Donor-Acceptor COFs” |
1982 – 1984 | Fellow, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach – Foundation |
1981 – 1982 | Fellow, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) |
REVIEWING ACTIVITIES |
| Since 1992 | Member of various Editorial Boards including Microporous Materials (1992-1995), Chemistry of Materials (1996-2004), Chemical Communications (1997-2000), Journal of Porous Materials (1997-), ACS Nano (2011-), Matter (2019-), Journal of the American Chemical Society (2019-) |
2019 – 2020 | Rapporteur for the Chemistry Research Field (evaluation of five Max-Planck-Institutes) to the President of the Max-Planck-Society |
2018 – | External Advisory Board, SFB (Collaborative Research Center) 1333, Molecular Heterogeneous Catalysis in Confined Geometries, University of Stuttgart / Germany |
2018 – | International Jury, Young Independent Researcher Groups Program, Austrian Science Fund, Vienna / Austria |
2016 – | Strategic Committee, Cluster of Excellence Matisse “Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces, Environment”, Sorbonne, Paris / France |
2007 – 2014 | International Scientific Advisory Panel of Scuola Interpolitecnica di Dottorato, Torino / Italy |
PUBLICATION RECORD |
| h-index: 104 (WoS), 115 (Google Scholar). 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics). |
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES |
| President of the „International Mesostructured Materials Association“ (2010 – 2015) |
Coordinator: Master-Program “Advanced Materials Science” at LMU (2005 – 2015) |
Coordinator of the DFG Excellence Cluster “Nanosystems Initiative Munich” (NIM) (2015-2018) |
Leader, successful competition and Coordinator for the DFG Excellence Cluster “e-conversion” |
since 2018 (funded for 2019 – 2025) |