Markus Niederberger
Professor
Department of Materials
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Markus Niederberger was Assistant Professor (tenure-track) from 2007-2011, Associate Professor from 2012-2016 and Full Professor for Multifunctional Materials since 2017 in the Department of Materials. He is Chair of the Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials. He was born in Stans in 1970. He concluded his studies of chemistry at ETH Zurich with a diploma in 1996 and continued at the same university to earn his PhD in Chemistry in 2001 with Prof. Reinhard Nesper. From 2001-2002 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, with Prof. Galen D. Stucky. He then transferred to the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany, where he was a group leader from 2002-2006 in the Colloid Department of Prof. Markus Antonietti.
Research Interest
Chemical synthesis of inorganic functional materials for energy storage and conversion, gas sensors and electronics.
