CURRICULUM VITAE       Achim Müller

Ph.D. Work: On a topic of Experimental Thermochemistry (Supervisor Prof. Dr. O. Glemser; examination in Theoretical Physics), Universität Göttingen, 1965 
Habilitation: On a topic of Vibrational Spectroscopy, Universität Göttingen, 1967
Associate Professor: From 1971 (Universität Dortmund)
Full Professor: From 1977 (Universität Bielefeld)
Offer: 1982 (Universität Saarbrücken, Chair F. Seel)

Publications in the following fields

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Honours

Académie Européenne des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres, Paris (France) elected 1985
New York Academy of Sciences since 1988
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina elected 1994
Polish Academy of Sciences elected 1994
Contemporary Inorganic Chemistry Lecturer, Texas A&M University, College Station (USA) 1995
Doctor Honoris Causa: Uniwersytet Wroclaw/Breslau (Poland) 1997
Academia Europaea (London) elected 1998
National Academy of Exact Physical and Natural Sciences (Argentina) elected 1998
Honorary Member of the Chemical Research Society of India elected 1999
Alfred-Stock-Gedächtnispreis (German Chemical Society) 2000
Frontiers in Chemical Research Lecturer, Distinguished Lecture Series, Texas A&M University, College Station (USA) 2000
Arthur S. Williams Lecturer 2000, University of South Carolina, Columbia (USA) 2000
Doctor Honoris Causa: Universitatea "Babes-Bolyai" Cluj-Napoca/Klausenburg (Romania) 2001
Marvel Lecturer 2001, University of Arizona, Tucson (USA) 2001
Honorary-Professor: Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina) 2001
Prix Gay-Lussac / Humboldt (Ministère de la Recherche, Paris, France) 2001
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize 2001, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
(see Coord. Chem. Rev. 228(2000)87)		 2001
Doctor Honoris Causa: Universitatea "Lucian Blaga" Sibiu/Hermannstadt (Romania) 2002
Leibniz-Sozietät (Berlin) elected 2002
Dawson-Lecturer 2003, University of Kentucky, Lexington (USA) 2003
Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea elected 2003
Doctor Honoris Causa: Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) 2003
Doctor Honoris Causa: Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (France) 2005
Emerson Center Visiting Fellowship Award, Emory University, Atlanta (USA) 2005
2004/5 Lewis Lecture, University of Cambridge (UK) 2005
Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Prize 2005, Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry 2005
Wilhelm Manchot-Forschungsprofessur, Technische Universität München 2006
Jean Perrin Lecture, Paris
(Société Française de Physique, Division de Chimie Physique)		 2008
Centenary Lecture/Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, London 2008/9
Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy elected 2009
Protagonist in Chemistry, Special Issue (No. 15) of Inorganica Chimica Acta 2010

Guest-Professorships

Editorial Board Memberships (Former and Present)
  • Chemical Communications
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Solid State Sciences
  • Comptes Rendus, Chimie
  • Journal Cluster Science
  • Journal of Molecular Structure
  • Bulletin de la Société Chimique de France
  • Spectrochimica Acta
  • Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Chemistry
  • The Chemical Intelligencer
  • Central European Journal of Chemistry
  • Canadian Journal of Applied Spectroscopy
  • Chimia
  • European Journal of Solid State and Inorganic Chemistry
  • Foundations of Chemistry (Philosophical, historical, and interdisciplinary studies of chemistry)
  • Monatshefte für Chemie
  • Science and Society (Warsaw/Paris) ISSN 1641-8530
  • Vibrational Spectra and Structure (A Series of Advances)
  • Central European Journal of Chemistry

Miscellaneous

  • Education of more than 50 post-doctoral research associates from foreign countries.
  • On the list of Thomas Reuters Highly Cited Research. One of our papers has been cited ca. 1500 times.
  • Mentioned in several editions of "(Marquis) Who's Who in the World".
  • Vice-President of the "European Congress of Molecular Spectroscopy" (1981-2004).
  • Organization of many international conferences (in several countries) related to subjects ranging from Bioinorganic Chemistry to Philosophy and Public Understanding of Science.
  • Structures of our compounds appeared as cover pictures of journals and magazines in ca. 40 cases.
  • Presentation of more than 100 plenary and invited lectures at international conferences.
  • Member of national / international evaluation committees.
  • Asked to write about the Future of Inorganic Chemistry: See Nature Chemistry 2009, Vol. 1, pp. 5 and 13.
  • Some aspects of our current research:
    Our nanoscaled porous capsules/artificial cells allow:
    • to perform sphere surface multi-supramolecular chemistry,
    • to model passive biological cation transport,
    • to perform chemistry under confined conditions,
    • to perform coordination chemistry inside the capsules, in the pores and above,
    • the investigation of a new ion solution state and new types of vesicles,
    • to study hydrophobic interactions inside.

      For other topics see keywords on our homepage:
      Overview, Magic Spheres, Molecular Magnets, A Protein Cavity, and Consequences.
      The facile syntheses of our structurally well-defined wheel- and spherically shaped nanoobjects now "used" by groups worldwide (see: Consequences/Applications) are described in:
  • Regarding the evaluation of the Faculty of Chemistry in Bielefeld see:
    David Bradley, "European Elites Envy American Cohesion", Science 260 (1993) 1738 (refers to a table with "Europe's Top 25" and includes a commentary of J.-M. Lehn).

Biographies/Laudationes

  • "Wer ist's?: Achim Müller - von Molekül-Schwingungen zu Nanosphären,"
    Nachrichten aus der Chemie, 51, February (2003) 142.
  • In dedicated special issues:
  • S. Migchielsen, G. Férey,"Professor Achim Müller Awarded 2001 Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize",
    Solid State Sciences 4 (2002) 753; see also: Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 165 (2002) 207 and Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 228 (2000) 87 as well as other chemistry journals of Elsevier referring to that.
  • Achim Müller: Wikipedia
  • See also:
    N. Hall, "Bringing inorganic chemistry to life", Chem. Commun. (2003) 803 (Focus Article)
    P. Gouzerh, M. Che, "From Scheele and Berzelius to Müller: Polyoxometalates (POMs) revisited and the "missing link" between the bottom up and top down approaches",
    L'Actualité Chimique, June issue (2006) 9.
    • Nature
    • Science
    • Chemistry World
    • Chemistry in Britain
    • La Recherche (France)
    • New Scientist
    • Spektrum der Wissenschaft
    • Scientific American
    • Chemical & Engineering News
    • Mundo Cientifico (Spain)
    • Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau
    • Science & Vie (France)
    • Science in Siberia (Russia)
    • Bild der Wissenschaft
    • Der Spiegel
    • Die Welt
    • Die Zeit
    • El Pais (Spain)
    • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
    • Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland)
    • Handelsblatt
    • Neue Zürcher Zeitung
    • Süddeutsche Zeitung
    • The Hindu (Science & Technology)(India)

    Edited Books (coeditors not mentioned)

      Spectroscopy in Chemistry and Physics: Modern Trends,  Elsevier, Amsterdam (1980)
      Transition Metal Chemistry - Current Problems of General, Biological and Catalytical Relevance,  Verlag Chemie, Weinheim (1981)
      Matrix Isolation Spectroscopy,  Reidel, Dordrecht (1981)
      Nitrogen Fixation: The Chemical-Biochemical-Genetic Interface,  Plenum, New York (1983)
      Sulfur: Its Significance for Chemistry, for the Geo-, Bio- and Cosmosphere and Technology,  Elsevier, Amsterdam (1984)
      Electron and Proton Transfer in Chemistry and Biology,  Elsevier, Amsterdam (1992)
      Polyoxometalates: From Platonic Solids to Anti-Retroviral Activity,  Kluwer, Dordrecht (1994)
      From Simplicity to Complexity in Chemistry - and Beyond, Part I,  Vieweg, Wiesbaden (1996)
      From Simplicity to Complexity, Part II, Information - Interaction - Emergence,  Vieweg, Wiesbaden (1998)
      Polyoxometalate Chemistry: From Topology via Self Assembly to Applications,  Kluwer, Dordrecht (2001)
      Polyoxometalate Molecular Science (NATO ASI Series),  Kluwer, Dordrecht (2003)
      Facetten einer Wissenschaft: Chemie aus ungewöhnlichen Perspektiven,  Wiley-VCH, Weinheim (2004)
      The Chemistry of Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties and Applications , Vols. 1-2 (specially referring to coeditor C.N.R. Rao),  Wiley-VCH, Weinheim (2004)
      Nanomaterials Chemistry: Recent Developments and New Directions (specially referring to coeditor C.N.R. Rao),  Wiley-VCH, Weinheim (2007)

    Edition of Special Journal Issues (coeditors not mentioned)

    • Proceedings of the XV European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy, J. Mol. Struct. 79 and 80 (1982)

    • Topological Aspects of Molecular Structures, J. Mol. Struct. Theochem. 336, Issue 2-3 (1995)

    • Recent Progress in Polyoxometalate Chemistry, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, t.1, Série II c, Issue 5-6, Mai-Juin (1998)

    • Aspects of Modern Inorganic Chemistry, Solid State Science 3, Issue 7 (2001)

    • Recent Progress in Polyoxometalate Chemistry, J. Cluster Science 13, Issue 3 (2002)

    • Molecular Materials: From Synthesis to Applications, Comptes Rendus, Chimie 6, Issue 3 (2003)

    • Special Issue Dedicated to I. I. Moiseev, J. Cluster Science 16, Issue 3 (2005)

    • Special Issue Dedicated to M. T. Pope, J. Cluster Science 17, Issue 2 (2006)

    • Special Issue Dedicated to G. Schmid, J. Cluster Science 18, Issue 1 (2007)

    • Special Issue Dedicated to D. Fenske, J. Cluster Science 18, Issue 3 (2007)

    • Special Issue Dedicated to C. N. R. Rao, J. Cluster Science 20, Issue 2 (2009)

    Book Translation (with A. Sprafke, E. Diemann)

      F. A. Cotton, G. Wilkinson, P. L. Gaus:
      Grundlagen der Anorganischen Chemie, VCH, Weinheim (1990)

    Approx. 900 papers in the following journals (including more than 50 reviews; notations of the related journals in bold print)
    • Academica (Romania)
    • Acc. Chem. Res.
    • Acta Chem. Scandinavia
    • Adv. Mat.
    • Akademie-Journal
    • Anal. Assoc. Arg.
    • Anal. Biochem.
    • Angew. Chem.
    • Appl. Catalysis
    • Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol.
    • Appl. Spectr.
    • Ber. Bunsenges. Phys. Chem.
    • Biochemistry
    • Biochim. Biophys. Acta
    • Bull. Pol. Ac.: Chem.
    • Bull. Soc. Chim. France
    • Bull. Soc. Chim. Belg.
    • Canadian J. Spectr.
    • Chem. Asian J.
    • Chem. Ber.
    • ChemBioChem
    • Chem. Commun.
    • Chem. Eur. J.
    • Chem. Heute
    • Chem. i.u. Zeit
    • Chem. J. Moldova
    • Chem. Mat.
    • Chem. Phys.
    • ChemPhysChem.
    • Chem. Phys. Lett.
    • Chem. Rev.
    • Chimia
    • Coord. Chem. Rev.
    • C. R. Acad. Sc. Paris
    • Croat. Chem. Acta
    • Crystal Growth & Design
    • Education in Advanced Chemistry (Poland; ISBN 83-7177-154-1)
    • Electrochem. Comm.
    • Eur. J. Inorg. Chem.
    • Eur. J. Solid State Inorg. Chem.
    • Europhys. Lett.
    • Europ. J. Biochem.
    • FEBS Lett.
    • Forschung an der Universität Bielefeld
    • Gaia
    • Hyperfine interactions
    • Inorg. Chem. Commun.
    • Inorg. Chim. Acta
    • Inorg. Synth.
    • J. Amer. Chem. Soc.
    • J. Appl. Phys.
    • J. Biol. Inorg. Chem.
    • J. Catalysis
    • J. Chem. Educ.
    • J. Chem. Phys.
    • J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans.
    • J. Chim. Physique
    • J. Chromatogr.
    • J. Inorg. Nucl. Chem.
    • J. Magn. Magn. Mat.
    • J. Mol. Liquids
    • J. Mol. Spectr.
    • J. Mol. Struct.
    • J. Mol. Struct. (Theochem)
    • J. Phys. Chem. C
    • J. Raman Spectr.
    • J. Solid State Chem.
    • J. Therm. Anal.
    • J. Vac. Sci. Techn.
    • Langmuir
    • Magn. Reson. Chem.
    • Metals in Biology
    • Mol. Eng.
    • Mol. Physics
    • Monatshefte Chemie
    • Nachr. Chem. Tech.
    • Nano Letters
    • Nature
    • Naturwissenschaften
    • New J. Chem.
    • Opinion Solid State Mater. Sci.
    • Organometallics
    • PCCP
    • Philosophia Naturalis
    • Phosphorous, Sulfur, and Silicon
    • Physica B
    • Phys. Lett. A
    • Phys. Rev. Lett.
    • Phys. Rev. B
    • Phys. Stat. Sol. C
    • Polyhedron
    • Prog. Theor. Phys.
    • Revista de Chimie
    • Rev. Roum. Chim.
    • Russ. J. Inorg. Chem.
    • Science
    • Science and Society (Warsaw/Paris)
    • Sitzungsberichte der Leibniz-Sozietät
    • Small
    • Solid State Sciences
    • Spectrochim. Acta
    • Structure and Bonding
    • Tetrahedron Lett.
    • The Chem. Intelligencer
    • Uspekhi Khimii
    • Verhandlungen GDNÄ
    • Vibr. Spectra Struct.
    • Z. Anal. Chem.
    • Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem.
    • Z. Chem.
    • Z. Kristallogr.
    • Z. Naturforsch. A
    • Z. Naturforsch. B
    • Z. Phys. Chem.
    • Z. Phys. Chem. N.F.
    • ZIF-Mitteilungen
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