Robert Schlögl

Schlögl studied chemistry at LMU Munich where he received his bachelor's degree in 1979 and his doctorate in 1982. After postdoctoral studies at University of Cambridge under Sir John Meurig Thomas, at the University of Basel under Hans-Joachim Güntherodt, and at the Fritz Haber Institute under Gerhard Ertl, he completed his Habilitation in Chemistry at Technische Universität Berlin in 1989. This was followed by a call to Goethe University Frankfurt as Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. Schlögl returned to Technische Universität Berlin and has been Director and Scientific Member of the Fritz Haber Institute since 1994. In 2011, he was also founding director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion.

Schlögl is a researcher in catalysis who has made crucial contributions to the elucidation of the structural dynamics and functionality of heterogeneous catalysts based on inorganic solids. The focus of his work is on the investigation of polycrystalline copper, molybdenum and vanadium oxides for selective oxidation.

In April 2023, Schlögl was one of the 22 personal guests at the ceremony in which former Chancellor Angela Merkel was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit for special achievement by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Schloss Bellevue in Berlin.