Professor Werner Kunz

Vita

Education

1972-1980: Gymnasium (High School) in Neustadt an der Waldnaab, Bavaria
1980: University-entrance diploma (Abitur) 1.0 with the best average mark of all high school graduates in Bavaria in 1980.
1980-1985: Study of Chemistry at the University of Regensburg (diploma with highest possible grade: 1.0).
1985-1988: PhD at this university working on Vapour Pressure Measurements and Statistical-Mechanical Theories for the Determination of Thermodynamic and Structural Properties of Electrolytes in Acetonitrile and Methanol (supervisor: Prof. Dr. J. Barthel).

Scientific Career

1988-1992: Postdoctoral fellow in France with Prof. Pierre Turq at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris and at the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA, Saclay.
1992: French “Habilitation à diriger de recherches” working on the determination of the structure and dynamics of solutions, especially with the help of neutron scattering experiments. Reviewer inter alia: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.
1992: Research fellow at the CEA, Saclay, France and assistant professor.
1993-1997: Professor at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC), France. In 1993 youngest professor of technical chemistry in France.
1995-1996: Interim Dean of research of the faculty of chemical engineering at UTC.
1997-now: Full professor and head of the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at Regensburg University.
2008-2009: Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy.

Selected Activities

1999: Founder of the Associate Institute of Technical and Applied Chemistry at Regensburg University (SKH Company).
2004: Founder and Coordinator of the European Master program “Complex Condensed Materials and Soft Matter“ (COSOM-EMASCO) together with institutes at the universities of Versailles and Florence, Lille (ENSCL) and Montpellier (ENSCM).
1998-2006: Co-Editor of the Journal of Molecular Liquids.
Numerous collaborations with industry (l’Oréal, BASF, Kao Chemicals, Procter & Gamble, Reckitt-Benkiser etc.) and research institutions (CEA, Max-Planck Society).
Member of the scientific advisory boards of several start-up companies.
Member of the scientific advisory board of TRIMATEC innovative cluster (south of France).

Distinctions and Awards

Corresponding member of the European Academy of Science and Arts (Paris, London).
Grants and fellowships from the State of Bavaria, the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, the Fonds der chemischen Industrie (Germany), NATO, the European Union, Elf Aquitaine.
Several guest professorships (in Belgium, Australia, France) and numerous invited and plenary lectures.

Werner Kunz, Eva Maurer, Regina Klein, Didier Touraud, Doris Rengstl, Agnes Harrar, Susanne Dengler, Low Toxic Ionic Liquids, Liquid Catanionics, and Ionic Liquid Microemulsions, Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology 32(12) (2011) 1694-1699.Online verfügbar unter: http://epub.uni-regensburg.de/24288/
Bernhard Smutek, Werner Kunz Frédéric Goettmann, Hydrothermal alkylation of phenols with alcohols in diluted acids, Comptes Rendus Chimie 15(1) (2012)96-101. Online verfügbar unter: http://epub.uni-regensburg.de/24261/
Matthias Kellermeier, Werner Kunz, Juan Manuel García-Ruiz, Growth behavior and kinetics of self-assembled silica-carbonate biomorphs, Chemistry – A European Journal 18 (2012) 2272 – 2282.Online verfügbar unter: http://epub.uni-regensburg.de/24262/
Andrey V. Kustov, Nataliya L. Smirnova, Roland Neueder, Werner Kunz, Amino acid solvation in aqueous kosmotrope solutions – temperature dependence of the L-histidine-glycerol interaction, J. Phys. Chem. B 116 (2012) 2335-2329. Online verfügbar unter: http://epub.uni-regensburg.de/24263/
Glaab, Fabian und Kellermeier, Matthias und Kunz, Werner und Morallon, Emila und Garcia-Ruiz, Juan Manuel (2012) Formation and Evolution of Chemical Gradients and Potential Differences Across Self-Assembling Inorganic Membranes. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 51 (18), S. 4317-4321 Online verfügbar unter: http://epub.uni-regensburg.de/24264/