Prof. Joachim Sauer

Institut für Chemie, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany

Joachim Sauer, Humboldt University Berlin, is Senior Researcher at Humboldt University where he was Professor of Theoretical Chemistry from 1993 – 2017. He got the Dr. rer. nat. degree in Chemistry from Humboldt University in (East-) Berlin in 1974. Currently, he is Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley.

Joachim Sauer is known for the development and applications of quantum chemical methods in surface science, adsorption and catalysis. He has published 425 research papers, notably in the area of modeling the structure and reactivity of transition metal oxides, zeolites and metal-organic frameworks, and he has given more than 500 invited lectures. Among others, he has received the Schrödinger medal of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists, the Francis Gault Lectureship of the Federation of European Catalysis Societies, and the ACS Award 2023 in Surface Chemistry. He is a member of the German National Academy Leopoldina, Foreign Member of the Royal Society and International Member of the National Academy of Sciences.