Bettina Lotsch


Bettina Valeska Lotsch is a German chemist. 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 completed it with a diploma in Chemistry in 2000. In 2006, she finished on her dissertation in the group of :de:Wolfgang Schnick|Wolfgang Schnick at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 2007 to 2008, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of G. A. Ozin at the University of Toronto. From 2009 to the beginning of 2017, she was an assistant professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 2009 to the beginning of 2017, she was also an independent group leader Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. 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.

Research

Her research focuses on rational materials synthesis at the interface of solid-state chemistry, materials chemistry, and nanochemistry. Materials of her research interest are:
Lotsch received several awards during her career: