Profile
Siegfried Waldvogel
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mühlheim, Germany
Siegfried R. Waldvogel studied chemistry in Konstanz and in 1996 he received his PhD from the University of Bochum/Max Planck Institute of Coal Research. After post-doctoral research in La Jolla, CA (Prof. Dr. J. Rebek Jr.), he started his own research at the Universities of Münster, Bonn and Mainz. His research focusses on electro-organic transformations including bio-based feedstocks. In 2023, he became director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion. He initiated and coordinates large research projects such as BMBF future cluster Electrifying Technical Organic Syntheses (ETOS). In 2018, he cofounded ESy-Labs GmbH, which provides custom electrosynthesis and contract R&D.