Manfred Baerns

Manfred Baerns (* 1934) is a German industrial chemist, since 1974 Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Ruhr- University Bochum, later, scientific director of the Institute for Applied Chemistry Berlin -Adlershof (1995-2003, now Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, Rostock ); He is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Ruhr- University Bochum since 1999. As a guest scientist he has worked in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry in 2006 at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society.

Life and work

Baerns was a member of many scientific committees and reviewer for funding and 1991-1997 Member of the Board of DECHEMA; He is also a member of the German Chemical Society, the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry and the American Chemical Society.

He is the holder of numerous awards and honors: DECHEMA Plaque in Titanium, Award of 4th World Congress on Oxidation Catalysis, Sapporo / Japan 2004, an honorary professor at the Humboldt University Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin, Honorary Member of the Institute for Catalysis at the University. Rostock.

Manfred Baerns is the author of about 300 scientific publications, numerous patents and 4 books in the field of technical chemistry and catalysis.

Baerns works primarily in the fields of catalysis with a focus on heterogeneous catalysis and chemical reaction engineering. He is married to the communication scholar Barbara Baerns.