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Applications welcome! If you are interested in a PhD position in our group, please send ONE pdf-document to holger.kohlmann@uni-leipzig.de containing a letter of motivation, a CV and an academic transcript. We always offer a wide range of topics from solid state research, currently in particular “High pressure synthesis of fluorides and fluoride oxides”.
Theses >> https://www.chemie.uni-leipzig.de/institut-fuer-anorganische-chemie-und-kristallographie/arbeitskreis-kohlmann#c528785
Head of research group
Scientific career and activities
Scientific career
2012 W2-Professorship Inorganic Chemistry - Functional Materials, Leipzig University
2010 Academic Director, Saarland University
2009 Venia legendi in Inorganic Chemistry, Saarland University
2007 Staff scientist, Saarland University
2002 Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2001 Postdoc, High Pressure Science and Engineering Center (Prof. Dr. Malcolm Nicol), University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1997 Postdoc, Laboratoire de Cristallographie (Prof. Dr. Klaus Yvon), Université de Genève, Geneva
1996 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at Saarland University (Prof. Dr. Horst P. Beck), Synthesis, crystal structure and bonding situation of the actinide chalcogenides U3S5, γ-US2, γ-USe2, Th2Se5, UOS and FeU8S17
1993 Diploma in Chemistry at Saarland University
1990 Intermediate diploma in chemistry at the Justus-Liebig University Giessen
Awards
2024 Rudolf-Hoppe-Lecture of the GDCh Division Solid State Chemistry & Materials Research
2023 Supervisor Award of Leipzig University
2022 Will-Kleber Commemorative coin of the German Society of Crystallography
Current committee work
- Ombudsperson of Leipzig University (since 2021)
- Vice Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy at Leipzig University (since 2022)
- Doctoral Committee of the Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy at Leipzig University (member since 2016, chair since 2022)
- Laser Safety Officer of two institutes (Inorganic / Technical Chemistry) of the Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy at Leipzig University (since 2015)
- Committee for Research with Neutrons, KFN (elected member, since 2020)
- Selection committees: Lieselotte Templeton Prize (since 2021), PreDoc Award of Leipzig University (since 2023)
- Project Review Panel Extreme Conditions at DESY (since 2022)