Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences - Theoretical Chemistry

Prof. Dr. Michael Römelt

Academic Career/ Education

Since 2021 Full Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (succession of Prof. Dr. Martin Schütz)
2018-2021 Head of an Emmy Noether Research Group at the Ruhr Universität Bochum
2015-2018 Head of an Otto Hahn Research Group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung and the Ruhr Universität Bochum
2014 Senior research associate in the group of Prof. Dr. Dominik Marx at the Ruhr Universität Bochum
2013-2014 Postdoc in the group of Prof. Dr. Garnet K.-L. Chan at Princeton University
2009-2013 PhD studies in the group of Prof. Dr. Frank Neese at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Max-Planck-Institut für chemische Energiekonversion
2007 Research visit in the labs of Prof. Dr. Edward I. Solomon at Stanford University and Prof. Serena DeBeer at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratories
2003-2009 Studies of chemistry at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Awards/ Prizes

  • Emmy Noether Grant
  • Otto Hahn Award for young researchers of the Max Planck Society
  • Otto Hahn Medal for PhD students of the Max Planck Society
  • Research scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  • Ernst Haage Prize for PhD students of the Max-Planck-Institut für chemische Energiekonversion
  • Award of the GDCh local section Bonn for outstanding accomplishments during the "Vordiplom"