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Professor Werner Kunz

Head of the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and

Chair of the Department of Physical Chemistry II

Vita

Curriculum Vitae?

Family name, First name: KUNZ, Werner
Date of birth: October 30, 1960. Married, 2 children.
Nationality: German
Research ID: D-2847-2009; ORCHID: orcid.org/0000-0002-9463-632X
Publications: 283; Citations: >9800;? H-Index 51
URL for website: http://www.uni-regensburg.de/chemistry-pharmacy/solution-chemistry-kunz/

  • EDUCATION

1988????????? ? ?? PhD, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Regensburg, ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? Germany
1985?????????? ? ? Diploma of Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University? ? ?????????????? ? ????? of? Regensburg, Germany????

  • ?CURRENT POSITION(S)

2012 -??????? ? ? Head of the Carl-von-Carlowitz Centre of Sustainable Chemistry,? ? ? ???????????????? ? ??? Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Regensburg,????? ? ????? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Germany??????

1997 -????? ? ??? Full Professor of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry??? ?? ?????????????????? ? ? and? Pharmacy, University of Regensburg, German

  • PREVIOUS POSITIONS

1993-1997????? Professor of Technical Chemistry and Dean of the Faculty of?????????? ? ??????????????????????? Chemical Engineering (1996-97) at the Université de Technologie?? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? de Compiègne, France (as youngest professor in the discipline in?? ? ??????????????????????? France)??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 1988-1992????? Research fellow at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? and at the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA, Saclay, France ???????

  • FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2019 ? ? ? ? ? ??? Steinkopff award of the German Colloidal Society for sustainable? ?????????????????????? formulations

2014 ? ? ? ? ? ??? Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Prize of the Humboldt association, selection ? ?? ??????????? ? ? ?? ??? by the French Academy of Sciences
2012 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Rhodia-Prize of the European Colloid and Interface Society for??? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? “opening? a new experimental area at the interface between micellar??? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? solutions, ionic liquids and concentrated ionic solutions”
2000 – ? ? ? ? ?? Corresponding member of the European Academy of Science and Arts? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? (Paris, London)
Since 1993?????Several guest professorships (in France, Belgium, Israel, USA, Australia)
1988-89 ? ? ???Fellowship of the European Union
1990??????????????NATO research fellowship
1991 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Research fellowship given by Elf Aquitaine
1992 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Research Fellowship from CEA
1988??????????????Award of the “Fond der Chemischen Industrie” for the PhD thesis
1980-88????????Graduate fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes including? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? a PhD research grant

  • SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

1993-2017???? 7 Postdocs / 41 PhD students / 76 Diploma and Master Students at the ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? Université de Technologie de Compiègne (until 1997) and at??????????????? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? Regensburg University

  • TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Since 1993?????Teaching Physical and (to a minor extent) Technical Chemistry at all????? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? levels from first year Physical Chemistry classes to specialised graduate ?????????????????????? seminars.
Since 2004?????Founder and head of the European Master programme “Complex????????? ?????????????????????? Condensed Materials and Soft Matter”, a joint program together? ????? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?????? with universities in France and Italy.
Since 2016?????Specialised open online courses about solution and liquid formulation?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? chemistry available on the FUN Platform (France Université? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ?????????????????????? Numérique),? a co-edition of INSTN and the Université de Montpellier,? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? France.
Since 2000?????public outreach: lectures at grammar schools
Since 2012????? public outreach: public expositions, panel discussions and public? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? lectures on sustainable chemistry

  • ORGANISATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

2009 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Organizer and Chairman of the European “Water” Conference at?????????? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? Frauenchiemsee, Bavaria, Germany (about 250 participants)
2004 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Organizer and Chairman of the symposium “Specific Ion Effects” in ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? Regensburg (about 60 participants)
2000 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Organizer and Chairman of the Biannual Meeting of the European??? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? Molecular Liquid Group (about 200 participants), Regensburg, Germany

  • INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

2012 – ? ? ? ? ?? Head of the Carl-von-Carlowitz Centre of Sustainable Chemistry,????? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Regensburg, Germany
2008 – 2009 ? Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of????? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? Regensburg

  • COMMISSIONS OF TRUST

Since 2015????Member of several Scientific Advisory Boards of start-up companies in ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? chemistry.
Since 2014???? Frequent reviewer of French ANR projects
2005 – ? ? ? ? ?Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Trimatec competitiveness ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??? cluster, France
1997 – 2007? Scientific Co-Editor of the Journal of Molecular Liquids (Current IF: 3.65)
Since 2000???Head of the University’s associate institute SKH GmbH in charge of? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? industrial transformation and commercialisation of academic? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ???????????????????? invention in chemistry
Since 1998 ??Reviewer for all major chemistry and scientific journals (Angewandte, ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? Nature, Science, PNAS …)

  • MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

???????????????????German Chemical Society (GdCH), German Bunsen Society of Physical??? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Chemistry (DBG), European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS), German ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Colloidal Society (Kolloid-Gesellschaft), DECHEMA

  • MAJOR COLLABORATIONS

??????????????????? Prof. Thomas Zemb and Dr. Oliver Diat, ICSM, Marcoule, France on?????? ? ??????????????????? microemulsions and weak interactions
??????????????????? Prof. Juan-Manuel Garcia-Ruiz, Granada, Spain, on biomorphs and?????? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? chemical gardens
????????????????? ? Prof. Barry Ninham, ANU, Canberra, Australia, on specific ion effects
???????????? ? ???? Prof. Dominik Horinek, Regensburg University, on simulation of??????? ? ???? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ?? ?? nanostructured liquids
?????????? ? ? ???? Prof. Gordon Tiddy, UMIST, Manchester, UK, on extended surfactants
????????????? ? ??? Profs. Jean-Marie Aubry and Véronique Rataj, Lille University, France, on? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??? solution and formulation chemistry ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ?? ? ? Dr. Elena N. Tsurko, Charkiw University, Ukraine on specific ion effects

Research monographs

???? 1.? W. Kunz(Editor), Specific Ion Effects, World Scientific Publishing,??? ? ????????????????? ? ? ? ? ? Singapore(2010), 325 pages.
???? 2. ? J.Tsurko and W. Kunz (Editors), Thermodynamics of Amino Acid and Protein ?? ?????????? Solutions, Research Signpost (2010), 207 pages.
???? 3. ?? 4 book chapters written since 2008.

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Granted patents: 8 patents filed since 2008.

Invited presentations to internationally established conferences /international advanced schools

Since 2012: ?(invited lecture: IL, plenary lecture: PL)

  • Okinawa Colloids 2019, November 2019, Okinawa, Japan, IL
  • Biannual Meeting of the German Colloidal Society, September 2019, Stuttgart, Germany, PL
  • TeBio Symposium on sustainable bio-based surfactants, July 2919, Paris, France, IL
  • Jubilee Seminar: The importance of materials in society, May 2019, Stockholm, Sweden, IL
  • International workshop on alternative solvents, September 2017, Lyon, France, IL
  • XI. Erwin Schr?dinger Symposium, June 2017, Vienna, Austria, IL
  • PROMETHEUS Meeting, April 2017, Granada, Spain, IL
  • Symposium CHEMWOOD, March 2017, Grenoble, France, IL
  • World Conference on Formulation “Formula VIII”, July 2016, Barcelona, Spain, PL
  • Autumn School “The Physical Chemistry of Green Chemistry”, November 2015, Montpellier, France, IL
  • Slovenian Chemical Days, September 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia, PL
  • 10th World Surfactant Congress, CESIO, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2015, PL
  • Symposium “Formulation et Développement Durable”, December 2014, Lille, France
  • Symposium of the KTN Biopharmaceutical Formulation Group, July 2014, Manchester, UK, IL
  • Indo-German workshop on surfactants and amphiphilic polymers in nanotechnology, March 2014, Chandigarh, India, IL
  • SEPAWA World Surfactant Congress, October 2013, Fulda, Germany, IL
  • Humboldt Conference “Chemistry and Life”, May 2013, Poltava, Ukraine, IL
  • VII Palestinian International Chemistry Conference, March 2013, Birzeit, Palestine, PL
  • Symposium on Hydration and ATP energy, March 2013, Sendai, Japan, IL
  • Annual Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS), September 2012, Malm?, Sweden, PL
  • VII European Summer School on supramolecular, intermolecular, interaggregate interactions and separation chemistry, July 2012, Moscow, Russia, IL
  • Summer School and Workshop on Coulomb Many-Body

Regensburg, August 2020

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Publications

The following list is a selection of The publications of Prof. W. Kunz. You can find the full publication list under the Button "Pubilcations".

  1. Werner Kunz, Eva Maurer, Regina Klein, Didier Touraud, Doris Rengstl, Agnes Harrar, Susanne Dengler, Low Toxic Ionic Liquids, Liquid Ca