This year's Carl Zerbe Prize for young scientists has been announced: Dr. rer. nat. Alexis Bordet has been nominated for the award by the DGMK board.
Dr. Bordet's research focuses on novel catalyst systems that can adaptively change their activity or selectivity by means of magnetic induction ("magnetically induced catalysis") and opens up a new field of catalysis research with innovative application potential at the interface of energy and chemistry.
After completing his doctorate at the Université Toulouse, he spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University. In February 2018, Dr. Bordet was appointed group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion due to his already very successful career. There he is responsible for the field of "Multifunctional Catalytic Systems".
The award ceremony for the prize, which is endowed with 5,000 euros, will take place at the DGMK/ÖGEW/SCI-Conference "Energy and Material Flows in Sustainable Petrochemistry - Opportunities and Implications" will take place on November 28, 2024.
