Prof. Dr. Norbert Werner Mitzel

2001:Technische Universität Berlin, Professor of inorganic an bioinorganic chemistry (declined); 2002: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Professor of inorganic chemistry (position filled 2002 - 2007); 2007: Universität Bielefeld, Professor of inorganic and structural chemistry (current position since 2007); Award, Honors:1994 Marie-Curie-Fellowship of the European Union, 1994 DFG Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1996 Bavarian Habilitation Prize (Bavarian Ministry of Science and Arts), 1996 DFG Habilitation Stipend, 1999 ADUC-Jahrespreis für Habilitanden, 2000 Heisenberg Fellowship, 2006 Elected Member of the EPSRC College, 2018 Wiberg Lecture (LMU Munich)

EDUCATION

Studies: Chemistry at Technical University of Munich; PhD: "Volatile Silyl-Amines, -Hydrazines, und -Hydroxylamines: Synthesis, Properties and Structural Chemistry" (with Prof. H. Schmidbaur, Technische Universität München); 1st Postdoc: "New precursors for the gas phase deposition of b-silicon carbide" (cooperation with Prof. S. Veprek, Technische Universität München); 2nd Postdoc:University of Edinburgh, Marie-Curie-Fellow of the European Union (with D.W.H. Rankin): gas electron diffraction, low temperature crystallography; Habilitation: "ß-Donor-acceptor-interactions in the chemistry of the p-block elements"
and "Comparative structural chemistry of small molecule compounds in the solid state and in the gas phase" at Technical University of Munich;

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Main Group Chemistry, Structural Chemistry, Lewis Acids, Frustrated Lewis Pairs, Weak Interactions, Gas Phase Electron Diffraction, Phase Dependenc of Structures, X-Ray Crystallography, Crystal Growth, Silicon, Tin, Phosphorus, Fluorine, Nitrogen