Peter Wasserscheid

Peter Wasserscheid (born 23 October 1970 in Würzburg) is a German chemist and professor for chemical reaction engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Together with Matthias Beller he won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2006.

Personal background

Wasserscheid studied chemistry at the RWTH Aachen from 1991 to 1995 before he did his doctorate in the work group of Professor Wilhelm Keim. After postdoctoral research at BP in Great Britain he habilitated at the RWTH Aachen. Since October 2003, Wasserscheid holds the chair of Chemical engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Wasserscheid is also a founder member of the company Solvent Innovation GmbH and Scientific Supervisor in this company since 2001.

Wasserscheid is married and has 3 children.

The focus of Wasserscheids work is ionic liquids where he is a pionieer, particularly in the region of developing halogenfree ionic liquids.

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 232564631 LCCN: no2003010051 ISNI: 0000 0003 6717 3267 GND: 12089257X SUDOC: 069714959 BNF: cb156076398 (data)

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