PI
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
Division Molecular Chemistry
Prof. Dr. Frank Breher
Engesserstr. 15
Gebäude 30.45 (Raum 523)
76131 Karlsruhe
| office | +49-(0)721-608 448 55 |
| fax | +49-(0)721-608 470 21 |
| breher(at)kit.edu |
Frank Breher performed his Ph.D. studies at the Universities of Oldenburg and Marburg (10.1998 to 03.2001) under the supervision of Prof. W. Uhl. He spent his postdoctoral period in the research group of Prof. H. Grützmacher at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland (DFG fellowship), where he became an independent researcher in 2002 supported by a Liebig fellowship. In 2005 he accepted a faculty position at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH) and became Assistant Professor in January 2006. Subsequently, he was promoted to W3-Professor for Inorganic Chemistry at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in April 2010. His research interests centre around the synthesis, structure, bonding and reactivity of organometallic and coordination compounds of unusual Main Group element cages/clusters and transition metal complexes. Spectroscopic techniques including cyclic voltammetry, EPR spectroscopy, and advanced NMR methods as well as density functional theory calculations are also of interest. In 2016, he was awarded the faculty teaching award. Since October 2016, he is Dean of Study Affairs (Chemistry).
Frank Breher performed his Ph.D. studies at the Universities of Oldenburg and Marburg (10.1998 to 03.2001) under the supervision of Prof. W. Uhl. He spent his postdoctoral period in the research group of Prof. H. Grützmacher at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland (DFG fellowship), where he became an independent researcher in 2002 supported by a Liebig fellowship. In 2005 he accepted a faculty position at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH) and became Assistant Professor in January 2006. Subsequently, he was promoted to W3-Professor for Inorganic Chemistry at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in April 2010. His research interests centre around the synthesis, structure, bonding and reactivity of organometallic and coordination compounds of unusual Main Group element cages/clusters and transition metal complexes. Spectroscopic techniques including cyclic voltammetry, EPR spectroscopy, and advanced NMR methods as well as density functional theory calculations are also of interest. In 2016, he was awarded the faculty teaching award. Since October 2016, he is Dean of Study Affairs (Chemistry).
Junior PI
Junior Group Leader
Dr. Alexander Hinz
Engesserstr. 15
Gebäude 30.45 (Raum 518)
76131 Karlsruhe
| office | +49-(0)721-608 420 93 |
| alexander.hinz(at)kit.edu |
Alexander Hinz obtained his Diplom under the supervision of Prof. Martin Köckerling at the University of Rostock with studies of transition-metal-containing ionic liquids in 2012. For his doctoral studies, he joined the group of Prof. Axel Schulz at the same university and explored new group 15 singlet biradicaloids and their reactivity. In 2015, he seized the opportunity to join Prof. Jose Goicoechea’s group at the University of Oxford as a post-doctoral researcher, where he investigated the chemistry of heavy analogues of the cyanate anion. Since April 2018, he has been recipient of a Liebig Fellowship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie and is developing sterically highly demanding substituents for the stabilisation of terminal main-group and transition-metal nitrides. His new webpage has recently been lauched, please click here.
Lea Bayer
| lab 521 | +49-(0)721-608 466 82 |
| Lea.Bayer(at)kit.edu | |
| “Multinuclear complexes via post-functionalization” |
Regularly recurring stays of visiting scientists
Prof. Dr. Ignacio Ferdández de las Nieves
University of Almería, Spain
Former members (PhD students and postdocs; arranged in chronological order)
Dr. Ivo Krummenacher
PhD Thesis “Ambidente Ligandensysteme basierend auf Pyrazolylverbindungen der Gruppe 14”
After his PhD, Ivo joined the group of Prof. C.C. Cummins (MIT) as a postdoc, supported by a fellowship of the SNF. Subsequently, he went to the UBC Vancouver for a postdoctoral stay in the group of Prof. D. P. Gates. Ivo is now “akademischer Rat” at the University of Würzburg.
Dr. Dastaghiri Reddy
Visiting scientist (AvH fellowship) from the Pondycherry University, India
Dr. Istemi Kuzu
PhD Thesis “Metallorganische Chemie und Koordinationschemie von ambidenten Ligandensystemen”
Istemi is now “akademischer Rat” at the Philipps University of Marburg
