Prof. Joachim Maier

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany

Joachim Maier received his PhD at the University of Saarbrücken in 1982, and completed his habilitation at the University of Tübingen in 1988. He has lectured at the University of Tübingen, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a foreign faculty member, at the University of Graz as a visiting professor, and at the University of Stuttgart as an honorary professor.

As director of the physical chemistry department (from 1991 to 2024) of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research he co-authored more than 1,000 papers on chemical and electro-chemical phenomena that garnered more than 100,000 citations. His major interests are energy research, solid state ionics, electrochemistry and interfaces. Joachim Maier laid the conceptual foundation of the field “nanoionics”. He is a member of various national and international academies and his work received national and international distinctions.