Bettina Lotsch

Bettina Valeska Lotsch
Born	(1977-09-07) 7 September 1977 (age 47)
Alma mater	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Awards	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2025) EU-40 Materials Prize (2017) Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, 2014)
Scientific career
Institutions	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich University of Toronto Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Thesis	From Molecular Building Blocks to Condensed Carbon Nitride Networks: Structure and Reactivity
Doctoral advisor	Wolfgang Schnick

Bettina Valeska Lotsch (born 7 September 1977 in Frankenthal (Pfalz)) is a German chemist. ^{[1] [2]} She is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany.

Life

Lotsch studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and graduated in 2000. ^[1] In 2006, she completed her dissertation in the group of Wolfgang Schnick  [ de ] at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. ^[1] From 2007 to 2008, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of G. A. Ozin at the University of Toronto. ^[1] From 2009 to the beginning of 2017, she was an assistant professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, ^[1] as well as an independent group leader for the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. ^[1] In 2017, she became Director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and an honorary professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. ^[1]

Research

Her research focuses on rational materials synthesis at the interface of solid-state chemistry, materials chemistry, and nanochemistry. ^[1] Materials of her research interest are: ^[1]

• New materials for energy conversion and storage (e.g., porous frameworks, lithium solid electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries) ^[1]
• Photonic nanostructures for optical sensing ^[1]
• 2D nanosheet materials and artificial heterostructures ^[1]

Selected publications

• Lau, Vincent Wing-hei; Klose, Daniel; Kasap, Hatice; Podjaski, Filip; Pignié, Marie-Claire; Reisner, Erwin; Jeschke, Gunnar; Lotsch, Bettina V. (2017). "Dark Photocatalysis: Storage of Solar Energy in Carbon Nitride for Time-Delayed Hydrogen Generation". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56 (2): 510–514. doi:10.1002/anie.201608553. ISSN   1521-3773. PMC   6680103 . PMID   27930846.
• Lotsch, Bettina V.; Blum, Volker; Senker, Jürgen; Duppel, Viola; Mesch, Maria B.; Weinberger, Simon; Botari, Tiago; Moudrakovski, Igor; Lau, Vincent Wing-hei (8 July 2016). "Rational design of carbon nitride photocatalysts by identification of cyanamide defects as catalytically relevant sites". Nature Communications. 7: 12165. Bibcode:2016NatCo...712165L. doi:10.1038/ncomms12165. ISSN   2041-1723. PMC   4941108 . PMID   27387536.
• Ast, Christian R.; Lotsch, Bettina V.; Parkin, Stuart S. P.; Duppel, Viola; Dmitry Marchenko; Varykhalov, Andrei; Topp, Andreas; Straßer, Carola; Ali, Mazhar N. (31 May 2016). "Dirac cone protected by non-symmorphic symmetry and three-dimensional Dirac line node in ZrSiS". Nature Communications. 7: 11696. arXiv: 1509.00861 . Bibcode:2016NatCo...711696S. doi:10.1038/ncomms11696. ISSN   2041-1723. PMC   4895020 . PMID   27241624.
• Lotsch, Bettina V.; Ochsenfeld, Christian; Podjaski, Filip; Savasci, Gökcen; Stegbauer, Linus; Haase, Frederik; Vyas, Vijay S. (30 September 2015). "A tunable azine covalent organic framework platform for visible light-induced hydrogen generation". Nature Communications. 6: 8508. Bibcode:2015NatCo...6.8508V. doi:10.1038/ncomms9508. ISSN   2041-1723. PMC   4598847 . PMID   26419805.
• Szendrei, Katalin; Ganter, Pirmin; Sànchez-Sobrado, Olalla; Eger, Roland; Kuhn, Alexander; Lotsch, Bettina V. (2015). "Touchless Optical Finger Motion Tracking Based on 2D Nanosheets with Giant Moisture Responsiveness". Advanced Materials. 27 (41): 6341–6348. Bibcode:2015AdM....27.6341S. doi:10.1002/adma.201503463. ISSN   1521-4095. PMID   26394013. S2CID   5916526.
• Lotsch, B. V.; Senker, J.; Mesch, M. B.; Hug, S.; Schwinghammer, K. (28 October 2015). "Phenyl-triazine oligomers for light-driven hydrogen evolution". Energy & Environmental Science. 8 (11): 3345–3353. Bibcode:2015EnEnS...8.3345S. doi: 10.1039/C5EE02574E . ISSN   1754-5706.
• Lau, Vincent Wing-hei; Mesch, Maria B.; Duppel, Viola; Blum, Volker; Senker, Jürgen; Lotsch, Bettina V. (28 January 2015). "Low-Molecular-Weight Carbon Nitrides for Solar Hydrogen Evolution" (PDF). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137 (3): 1064–1072. Bibcode:2015JAChS.137.1064L. doi:10.1021/ja511802c. ISSN   0002-7863. PMID   25537611.
• Schwinghammer, Katharina; Mesch, Maria B.; Duppel, Viola; Ziegler, Christian; Senker, Jürgen; Lotsch, Bettina V. (5 February 2014). "Crystalline Carbon Nitride Nanosheets for Improved Visible-Light Hydrogen Evolution". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136 (5): 1730–1733. Bibcode:2014JAChS.136.1730S. doi:10.1021/ja411321s. ISSN   0002-7863. PMID   24432762.
• Lotsch, Bettina V.; Schwinghammer, Katharina; Stegbauer, Linus (3 June 2014). "A hydrazone-based covalent organic framework for photocatalytic hydrogen production". Chemical Science. 5 (7): 2789–2793. arXiv: 1401.3656 . Bibcode:2014arXiv1401.3656S. doi:10.1039/C4SC00016A. ISSN   2041-6539. S2CID   37487748.
• Schwinghammer, Katharina; Tuffy, Brian; Mesch, Maria B.; Wirnhier, Eva; Martineau, Charlotte; Taulelle, Francis; Schnick, Wolfgang; Senker, Jürgen; Lotsch, Bettina V. (2013). "Triazine-based Carbon Nitrides for Visible-Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52 (9): 2435–2439. doi:10.1002/anie.201206817. ISSN   1521-3773. PMID   23341324.

Awards

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, 2025 ^[3]
• EU-40 Materials Prize, European Materials Research Society (EMRS), 2017 ^{[4] [5]}
• Young Elite – the Top 40 under 40 in Economy, Politics, and Society, 2015 and 2016 ^{[6] [7]}
• ERC Starting Grant, 2014 ^[1]
• Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), 2014 ^[1]
• Fast Track Scholarship, Robert Bosch Foundation, 2008–2010 ^{[1] [8]}
• E.ON Culture Prize, 2007 ^{[1] [8]}
• Feodor Lynen Postdoc Scholarship (Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation), 2007 ^{[1] [8]}
• Dissertation award (Stiftungspreis), LMU Munich, 2007 ^[1]
• PhD scholarship, German National Academic Foundation, 2004 ^[1]
• PhD scholarship, Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI), 2003 ^[1]
• Faculty Prize (best diploma), 2002 ^[1]
• Herbert-Marcinek Prize (best preliminary diploma), 2000 ^[1]
• Scholarship, German National Academic Foundation, 1997 ^[1]
• Scholarship of the Stiftung Maximilianeum, 1997 ^[1]

References

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5. "EU-40 Materials Prize: B V. Lotsch / Ehrenmitgliedschaft in der polnischen chemischen Gesellschaft: H.-U. Reißig / Welch Award: J. B. Goodenough". Angewandte Chemie. 129 (48): 15391. 2017. Bibcode:2017AngCh.12915391.. doi:10.1002/ange.201710408. ISSN   1521-3757.
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