Peter Roesky
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Chemistry and Biochemistry | L14
Peter W. Roesky obtained his doctoral degree from TU Munich in 1994. After postdoctoral work at Northwestern University, USA, he completed his habilitation at the University of Karlsruhe in 1999. He was appointed a full professor at the FU in 2001. In 2008, he became a full Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). From 2013 to 2015, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences at KIT. His current research interests are synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemistry of s-block metals, silicon, phosphorus, gold, and lanthanides. In 1999, Prof. Roesky received a Heisenberg scholarship of the German Research Foundation, and in 2000 a Karl-Winnacker scholarship. Since 2014, he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and since 2020 a fellow of the European Academy of Science (EurAsc). In 2019/20, he received a JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan, in 2020 a Reinhart Koselleck Project of the German Research Foundation, and in 2022 the Frank Spedding Award for Research in Rare Earth Science. He is also Henriette Herz-Scout of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation.