Thomas E. Müller
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Thomas E. Müller | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Education | PhD in noble metal complexes and clusters |
| Alma mater | LMU Munich ETH Zurich Imperial College London |
| Thesis | (1995) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Sussex Technical University of Munich National University of Singapore University of Tokyo RWTH Aachen University Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
Thomas E. Müller is a German chemist and an academic. He is Professor of Carbon source and Conversion at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.[1]
Müller's research focus is in the area of chemical engineering and spans the fields of organometallic and polymer chemistry to reaction and process engineering. He has worked on the development of methods for the production of organic commodity chemicals and polymers and has conducted research on catalytic conversions such as the conversion of alkenes and alkynes to amines by hydroamination. More recently, his work has focused on the field of carbon capture and utilization (CCU), sustainability, hydrogenation of multifunctional molecules and high-performance polymers.[2]
Müller has authored and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed research papers.[3]
Müller enrolled at LMU Munich in 1986 and received an intermediate diploma in chemistry. Following that, he received a diploma in chemistry from ETH Zurich in 1991. Subsequently, he completed his PhD in noble metal complexes and clusters from Imperial College London in 1995 and was appointed as a Research Fellow by the University of Sussex to work on fullerene chemistry, allotropes of carbon and arrays of carbon nanotubes. Later, he accomplished habilitation in 2003 from the Technical University of Munich, focusing on chemical process development, reaction engineering and catalysis, and conceived innovative composite and nanostructured materials mainly for use as catalytically active materials.[1]
Career
Following his habilitation in 2003, Müller started his academic career as a lecturer at the Technical University of Munich. He held a brief appointment in 2005 as an associate professor of Applied Chemistry at the University of Singapore. After joining Bayer MaterialScience AG in 2007 he built the CAT Catalytic Center as part of the industry-academia collaboration with RWTH Aachen University. He was the Head of CAT Catalytic Centre (CAT) from 2007 to 2015.[4] After the carve-out, he continued as catalyst expert at Covestro AG. Later, in 2018 he changed as a professor to Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln for a year. Since 2019, he has been the professor of the chair Carbon Sources and Conversion at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.[1]