Innsbruck Doctoral College Reactivity and Catalysis
https://www.uibk.ac.at/dk-reaktivitaet-katalyse/
Speaker
Priv.Doz. Dr. Simon Penner (Department of Physical Chemistry)
Deputy Speaker
Univ.Prof. Dr. Julia Kunze-Liebhäuser (Department of Physical Chemistry)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Beyer (Department of Ion Physics and Applied Physics)
Coordination
Tobias Gasser, BSc. MSc. (Administration)
Claudia Fabian (Administration)
Aims
The aim of the planned special doctoral programme is the excellence education of qualified students from within and outside Austria in recent and relevant research topics covering different aspects of reactivity in materials- and nanoscience. The joint forces of three faculties (Chemistry and Pharmacy, Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences and Mathematics, Informatics and Physics) and five Departments allow students to appreciate reactivity from different important viewpoints, ranging from homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, reactivity of surfaces and interfaces over activation mechanisms of molecules and biomolecules, reactivity of metals, oxides, metal-oxides and intermetallic compounds to gas phase molecules. The resulting input from several different scientific approaches yields a much more in-depth assessment of reactivity as compared to usual and conventional doctoral education, both from a theory and experimental viewpoint. Scientific exchange on all levels will be particularly promoted. The participants of the special doctoral programme will additionally benefit from an interdisciplinary access to national and international research groups and contact to potential employers from scientific and industrial partners.
The special doctoral programme will be operated within the framework of the special research platform Materials and Nanoscience, inaugurated at the University of Innsbruck. Each scientific adviser of the doctoral programme will at minimum introduce one doctoral student (but not more than two) at the same time. If for some reason such a student is temporarily not introduced, the respective member will be still available for scientific guidance. The doctoral programme will be composed of 10 prospective students at minimum, the maximum number of allowed students will be set at double the number of scientific advisers.
Educational basis of the special doctoral programme are the respective curricula of the doctoral programmes of the participating faculties with interdisciplinary guidance of at least one additional participating scientific adviser. Scientific exchange will be ensured via regular meetings of both students and advisers and additional summer and/or winter schools. Successful participation in the special doctoral programmes will be acknowledged by a certficate once all required courses have been successfully completed.
Faculty Members
Fakulty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
- Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Benno Bildstein (Department of General, Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry)
- Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Herwig Schottenberger (Department of General, Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry)
- Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Brüggeller (Department of General, Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry)
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erminald Bertel (Department of Physical Chemistry)
- Priv.-Doz. Dr. Simon Penner (Department of Physical Chemistry)
- Assoz. Prof. Dr. Bernhard Klötzer (Department of Physical Chemistry)
- Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Menzel (Department of Physical Chemistry)
- Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Norbert Memmel (Department of Physical Chemistry)
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Julia Kunze-Liebhäuser (Department of Physical Chemistry)
- Assoz. Prof. Dr. Thomas Lörting (Department of Physical Chemistry)
- Assoz. Prof. Dr. Martin Tollinger (Department of Organic Chemistry)
Fakulty of Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Volker Kahlenberg (Department of Mineralogy and Petrography)
Fakulty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Beyer (Department of Ion Physics and Applied Physics)
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Roland Wester (Department of Ion Physics and Applied Physics)
Is part of: Research Platform Advanced Materials
