Carl Zerbe Prize awarded
This year's DGMK Sponsorship Award recognizes the achievements of Dr. Alexis Bordet in the field of catalysis research.
The Carl Zerbe Prize has been awarded for outstanding scientific achievements since 1989 to promote young scientists. This year, the honorary prize of the DGMK (German Scientific Society for Sustainable Energy Sources, Mobility and Carbon Cycles), which is endowed with 5,000 euros, goes to Dr. Alexis Bordet from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Mülheim. The scientist received the award at the DGMK Petrochemistry Conference on November 28 in Hamburg, where he presented his research findings.
In his laudatory speech, Prof. Dieter Vogt, Chair of Technical Chemistry at TU Dortmund University and Chairman of the Petrochemistry Division of the DGMK, referred to the “innovative work on new catalyst materials” that use the magnetic properties of nanoparticles for inductive energy supply. His research opens up “new application potential at the interface of chemistry and energy”.
Dr. Alexis Bordet completed his doctorate at the Université Toulouse in 2016 and then spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University. In February 2018, Dr. Bordet was appointed group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion. There he is responsible for the field of “Multifunctional Catalytic Systems”.
