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Dr. Terrance J. Hadlington is being awarded the Ernst Haage Prize 2025 for his outstanding research work at the interface between main group and transition metal chemistry. The prestigious prize is awarded annually by the Ernst Haage Foundation of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI CEC) and the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (MPI KOFO) in Mülheim an der Ruhr and is endowed with 7,500 euros.
Dr. Hadlington heads an independent research group at the Technical University of Munich. His research aims to develop new catalyst concepts that can be used to make chemical reactions more environmentally friendly and efficient. The focus is on so-called “single-center ambiphile” ligands – special molecular building blocks that make it possible to break stable chemical bonds and thereby initiate reactions. In this way, even very low-energy compounds such as ammonia can be made chemically usable – an important step on the way to climate-friendly energy systems of the future.
The chemist, who grew up in the UK, studied at the University of Bath and received his doctorate from Monash University in Melbourne. After research stays in Oxford and Berlin, he began his independent scientific career in Munich in 2019, initially supported by a Liebig Scholarship from the Chemical Industry Fund. Since then, he has received several prestigious scientific awards, including the Wöhler-BASF Young Scientist Award (2022), the ADUC Prize (2023), and an ERC Starting Grant from the European Union.
In addition to the national prize winner, young scientists from the Max Planck Institutes in Mülheim will also be honored. This year, Dr. Maximilian Hielscher (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, supervised by Prof. Waldvogel, Director at MPI CEC) and Dr. Liqun Kang (MPI CEC) will receive the Ernst Haage Prizes for doctoral students and postdocs. Both impressed with their innovative research work in the field of catalysis and electrochemical conversion processes.
The foundation also recognizes the achievements of young technical talent: The 2025 Apprentice Awards go to Joel Bicker, chemical laboratory assistant at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, and Jana Brylak, chemical laboratory assistant at the MPI for Chemical Energy Conversion. Both have distinguished themselves through above-average performance during their training.
The award ceremony will take place on Friday, November 7, 2025, starting at 9:30 a.m. in the large lecture hall of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr. The scientific program will begin with a keynote lecture by Dr. Josep Cornellà, new director at the MPI für Kohlenforschung, entitled “Advancing Bismuth Redox Catalysis”. The award winners will then present their research work during the ceremony.
The Ernst Haage Prize has been awarded since 2006 in memory of the Mülheim entrepreneur Ernst Haage (1901-1968), who had close ties to the Max Planck Institutes in Mülheim through his scientific and technical devices and equipment. His daughter Ursula Bonnen founded the foundation in 2006 with the aim of providing long-term support for young scientists in Germany.
https://www.cec.mpg.de/en/institute/ernst-haage-award/registrierung
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