Chemist receives most important German prize for junior researchers

For his outstanding research in the field of inorganic molecular chemistry, Münster University chemist Dr. Fabian Dielmann receives a Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, worth 20,000 euros, from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The prize is seen as the most important award for the promotion of junior researchers in Germany. This year it is being presented to ten researchers. The awards ceremony will take place on 28 May in Berlin. "It's a wonderful feeling to see that my research is something that fascinates not only me, but others as well," says Fabian Dielmann. "The prize is a token of recognition." Together with his research group, junior researcher Fabian Dielmann develops molecular systems which are able to activate inert molecules, thus facilitating their subsequent chemical conversion. The focus of research activity in this case is on catalytic processes.