Dieter Schlüter
Professor
Department of Materials
ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
A. Dieter Schlüter has been Professor of Polymer Chemistry in the Department of Materials, since 2004. He was born in Germany. Dieter Schlüter studied chemistry and geophysics at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and received a doctorate in organic chemistry with Prof. Günter Szeimies in 1984. After post-doctoral work with Professor K. Peter Vollhardt , University of California, Berkeley, USA, and Professor W. James Feast, University of Durham, England, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz in 1986. There he headed the research group “Polymer Synthesis” in the department led by Professor Gerhard Wegner. In 1991 he received habilitation in organic chemistry at the University of Mainz. Shortly after that he was appointed Professor for Polymer Chemistry at the Polymer Institute of the Technical University of Karlsruhe (today known as KIT). 1992 he transferred to Freie Universität Berlin, where he was Professor for Organic Chemistry until 2004.
Research Interest
Dieter Schlüter’s research focuses on polymer synthesis and has a visible component of organic and supramolecular chemistry. Pivotal are methodological aspects of innovative macromolecular structures and their perspectives of three-dimensionality.
