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Prof. Dr. Ferdi Schüth, Director and Scientific Member at the “Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung” in Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany, has been awarded the Alwin Mittasch Prize 2025 for his outstanding work in catalysis research. The German Catalysis Society (GeCatS) is thus honoring his achievements as a creative driving force and initiator of new catalysis concepts and as a pioneer in the transfer of new findings from catalysis research to commercial applications. The award ceremony will take place on March 13, 2025 as part of the “Jahrestreffen Deutscher Katalytiker”https://dechema.de/katalytiker2025.html in Weimar.
The Alwin Mittasch Prize is awarded for outstanding research work that has led to a deeper understanding or expansion of the fundamentals of catalysis and its industrial application. The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros and is supported by BASF.
Ferdi Schüth is an internationally outstanding chemist active in the field of heterogeneous catalysis, especially – but not only – focusing on materials for catalysis. His work was the foundation for many groundbreaking discoveries, for example for nanostructured catalysts with controlled porosity and targeted placement of functional units for various application fields, such as biomass conversion, methane activation, and fuel cell catalysis. In the field of mechanocatalysis of gas phase reactions, with his mechanocatalytic approach, Ferdi Schüth was able to synthesize ammonia at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. Moreover, Ferdi Schüth was one of the pioneers of High-Throughput-Experimentation (HTE) in catalysis with modern methods – resulting in founding of hte GmbH in 1999 – and thereby continuing in a way the research of Alwin Mittasch himself, who used “manual” high throughput approaches to carry out thousands of experiments with different solids.
Ferdi Schüth studied chemistry and law at the University of Münster. In 1988 he completed his PhD in physical chemistry and in 1989 he passed the “1. Staatsexamen der Rechtswissenschaften” (first state examination law). He then pursued his career as a chemist, working at the University of Münster, the University of Minnesota, the University of Mainz and the University of California in Santa Barbara. From 1995 to 1998 he was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Goethe University Frankfurt. Since 1998, he has been Director and Scientific Member at the “Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung” in Mülheim/Ruhr.
Ferdi Schüth holds and has held numerous prestigious positions, including Vice President of the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft” (German Research Foundation) until 2014 and Vice President of the Max Planck Society until 2020. He also chaired the jury for the “Deutscher Zukunftspreis” of the German President from 2013 to 2022. Ferdi Schüth has also been honored with numerous awards. These include the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award in 2003, the Carl-Friederich-von-Weizsäcker Award in 2014 and the Wilhelm Exner Medal in 2024.
The German Catalysis Society(GeCatS https://dechema.de/GeCatS.html) is the platform for the entire German catalysis community in the field of research and application. Currently it has about 1000 members from industry and academia. GeCatS promotes the scientific and technical dialogue between industry, universities, non-university research institutes and research policy institutions and represents the interests of the catalysis community on a national and international level. The German Catalysis Society is supported by DECHEMA, VDI-GVC, GDCh, DGMK und DBG.
Alwin Mittasch-Prize 2025 for Ferdi Schüth, Mülheim / Ruhr, Germany
Frank Vinken, MPI für Kohlenforschung
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Alwin Mittasch-Prize 2025 for Ferdi Schüth, Mülheim / Ruhr, Germany
Frank Vinken, MPI für Kohlenforschung
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