Lutz Ackermann studied Chemistry at the University Kiel (Germany), and performed his PhD with Prof. Alois Fürstner at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Mülheim/Ruhr, 2001). After a postdoctoral stay at UC Berkeley with Prof. Robert G. Bergman, he initiated his independent research career in 2003 at the Ludwig Maximilians-University München. In 2007, he became Full Professor (W3) at the Georg-August-University Göttingen. His recent awards and distinctions include an AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award (2011), an ERC Consolidator Grant (2012), a Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Preis (2017) and an ERC Advanced Grant (2021). The development and application of novel concepts for sustainable catalysis constitutes his major current research interests, with a topical focus on electrocatalysis and bond activation.
h-index: > 129 (WoS); 132 (Scopus), 144 (GoogleScholar)
> 550 publications; > 340 invited lectures, ResearcherID, Google Scholar, ORCID
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since 2025 1. Vorsitzender Göttinger Chemische Gesellschaft – Museum der Chemie e. V.
since 2023 DZHK Executive Board Member
since 2019 Founder and Director of the Woehler Research Institute for Sustainable Chemistry: WISCh
since 2017 PI at German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK)
2015-2017 Director of the Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
2013-2015 Dean of Research, Faculty of Chemistry, Georg-August-University Göttingen
2011-2013 Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, Georg-August-University Göttingen
since 05.2007 Chair and Full Professor (W3) at the Georg-August-University Göttingen
06.2003-04.2007 Assistant Professor, Emmy Noether-Fellow (DFG): Independent research at the LMU München (Prof. Dr. P. Knochel)
07.2001-05.2003 Postdoctoral Studies with Prof. Dr. R. G. Bergman, UC Berkeley
06.1998-06.2001 Ph.D. thesis (Mentor: Prof. Dr. A. Fuerstner), Max-Planck-Institut für
Kohlenforschung in Mülheim/Ruhr (summa cum laude)
08-12.1999 Research stay at the Université de Rennes, France (Prof. Dr. P. H. Dixneuf)
08.1997-03.1998 Diploma thesis (MSc) (Prof. Dr. J. Mattay)
10.1993-03.1998 Studies of Chemistry at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
07.1992-07.1993 Military Service
2024 Clarivate Web of Science Group Highly Cited Researcher 2024 <Press release in German>
2024 GEQO Fellow (Mención GEQO) award by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ)
2024 Honored as a ScholarGPS Highly Ranked Scholar Scholargps.com
2024 Otto Roelen-Medal by DECHEMA and the German Catalysis Society (GeCatS) <Press release in German>
2023 Clarivate Web of Science Group Highly Cited Researcher 2023
2023 Werner Siemens-Stiftung (WSS) Research Award WSS Jahrhundertprojekt <Press release in German>
2023 Lecture seminario of the Real Sociedad Española de Química: Grupo Especializado de Química Organometálica
2022 Among top 11 Chemistry Scientists in Germany at Research.com
2022 Award for Excellent Supervisors of Chinese PhD Students by the GDCh and GCCCD
2022 Clarivate Web of Science Group Highly Cited Researcher 2022 press release in German: Forschung mit weltweitem Einfluss
2022 French-German Prize « Georg Wittig – Victor Grignard » of the Société Chimique de France – SCF <Press release in German>
2022 Chemistry Europe Fellows
2022 Among top 8 Chemistry Scientists in Germany at Research.com
2021 ERC Advanced Grant
2021 Web of Science Group Highly Cited Researcher 2021
2020 Web of Science Group Highly Cited Researcher 2020
2019 Boehringer Ingelheim lecture, Caltech
2019 Web of Science Group Highly Cited Researcher 2019
2019 Distinguished Visiting Professor School of Biomedical Sciences, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China
2019 Visiting Professor Université de Strasbourg, France
2018 Visiting Professor École Polytechnique, France
2018 Distinguished Visiting Professor IIT Bombay, India
2018 Clarivate (Web of Science) ISI Highly Cited Researcher
2017
Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Preis
2017 Clarivate (Web of Science) Hottest Researchers
2017 Distinguished Visiting Professor Kyoto University, Japan
2017 Clarivate (Web of Science) ISI Highly Cited Researcher
2017 IOCF Yoshida Lectureship Award, Japan
2017 Honorary Membership of the Israel Chemical Society
2016 Thomson Reuters (Web of Science) ISI Highly Cited Researcher
2016 Selected as a Top Author at Organic Letters
2016 Member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Göttingen
2016 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC
2016 Invited Chair Professor Joliot at the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI)
2016 Molecular Science Frontier Lecture Professorship, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS)
2015 Thomson Reuters (Web of Science) ISI Highly Cited Researcher
since 2015 Adjunct Professor at the Università di Pavia
2015 Visiting Professor at the Università degli Studi di Perugia
2015 Ta-Shue Chou Lectureship Award, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
2014 Offer for a Full Proffesorship (Chair) at RWTH Aachen (declined)
2014 Lifetime honory Member, Israel Chemical Society
2014 Thomson Reuters (Web of Science) ISI Highly Cited Researcher
2014 BASF lecture, UC Berkeley
2012 ERC Independent Researcher Consolidator Grant
2011 AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award
2011 Holger Erdtman Lecturer, KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
2010 Alphora Lecturer, University of Toronto, Canada
2009 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Visiting Professor Fellowship, Osaka University, Japan
2008 Goering Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconson at Madison, USA
2007 Dozentenstipendium (FCI)
2007 Visiting Professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano
2007 ADUC-price (GDCh)
2006 Award of the Dr. Otto-Röhm-Gedächtnisstiftung
2006 Römer-fellowship
2006 DuPont Center for Collaborative Research & Education Grant
2006 ORCHEM-Preis für Naturwissenschaftler (GDCh)
2006 G.I.F. Young Scientists' Program
2004 Thieme Journal Award
2003-2007 Emmy Noether-Programm (DFG)
2001-2002 Postdoctoral Scholarship (DAAD)
1999-2001 Kekulé-fellowship (FCI)
since 2025 Kuratorium der XLAB Stiftung zur Förderung der Naturwissenschaften
since 2024 Selection Comittee for the Adolf von Bayer commemorative medal of the GDCh
since 2023 Selection Comittee for the Emil Fischer Medal of the GDCh
since 2022 Commission of the Richard Willstätter Lecture at the GDCh
since 2022 Selection Committee for the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Programme at the DFG
since 2019 Founding Director of the Woehler Research Institute for Sustainable Chemistry: WISCh
2015-2017 Director of the Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
2015-2019 Erasmus coordinator, Faculty of Chemistry, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
since 2015 Founding Member International Center for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion (ICASEC), Göttingen
2013-2015 Dean of Research, Faculty of Chemistry, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
2011-2013 Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
since 2009 Cofounder and Vice Spokesperson of the International PhD program "Catalysis for Sustainable Synthesis (CaSuS)"
2009-2011 Board member of the Georg-August University School of Science (GAUSS) Göttingen
Marathon München, Hamburg
since 2024 Member of the Advisory Board of Industrial Chemistry & Materials
since 2023 Guest Editorial at Israel Journal of Chemistry: Electrochemically Driven Organic Synthesis
since 2023 Guest Editorial at Organic Letters with Profs.: Chemoselective Methods for Labeling and Modification of Peptides and Proteins
since 2023 Guest Editorial at European Journal of Organic Chemistry with Prof. Song Lin: Organic Electrocatalysis Guest Editorial
since 2023 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Materials Today Catalysis
since 2022 Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of Helvetica Chimica Acta
since 2022 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Chemistry - A European Journal
since 2022 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Universal Journal of Electrochemistry
since 2021 Associate Editor Chemical Communications
since 2021 Member of the ASC Academic Advisor Board Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis
since 2021 Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews
since 2021 Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of ChemCatChem
since 2020 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Chem Catalysis
since 2020 Guest Editorial at ChemCatChem with Profs. Dong and Tsogoeva: The Catalysis of Ring Synthesis Guest Editorial
since 2020 Associate Editor-in-Chief Green Synthesis and Catalysis
since 2020 SNSF Review Panel NCCR Catalysis
since 2019 Guest Editorial at ChemCatChem with Prof. Sortais: Homogeneous Catalysis is Up for the Challenge Guest Editorial
since 2018 Associate Editor Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
since 2018 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of European Journal of Organic Chemistry
since 2013 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Organic Chemistry Frontiers
since 2009 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Synlett
since 2009 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Synthesis
2014 Israel Chemical Society
2010 Technion Gesellschaft
2002 ACS
1997 GDCh
2024 TSG Estenfeld (football coach)
1978 Raisdorfer TSV