Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bastian J. M. Etzold


FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Power-to-X-Technologies
Dr.-Mack-Straße 81
90762 Fürth, Germany

Mail: bastian.etzold@fau.de

Phone: +49 (911) 65078-65000
Homepage: www.etzoldlab.de
Curriculum-Vitae.pdf, Publications.pdf

Personal Details: Born 12.04.1979, married, 4 children
ORCID: 0000-­0001-­6530-­4978, ResearcherID: B-­9433-­2008


Curriculum Vitae


Education & Research Experience

Since 12/2015 Professorship for Chemical Technology (permanent, W3)
Chemistry Department of Technische Universität Darmstadt
04/2015-11/2015 Professorship for Catalytic Materials (permanent, W2)
Chemical- and Biological Engineering Department of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
05/2014 Offer for a full professorship for Chemical Engineering at an excellent UK university (Russell international excellence group).
01/2010-03/2015 Juniorprofessor for Catalytic Materials (tenure track, W1) assistant professorship (Juniorprofessur) within the Chemical- and Biological Engineering Department of the FAU
01/2011-06/2011 Drexel University, Feodor-Lynen Research Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation), Materials Science and Engineering, Philadelphia
04/2008-12/2009 Postdoctoral fellow, Cluster of Excellence “Engineering of Advanced Materials”, FAU
2008 Dipl.-Kfm. (M.Sc.) in Economics
University of Hagen
Thesis: “Organizational intelligence – a critical analysis“ Advisor: Prof. J. Weibler
2007 Dr.-­Ing. (Ph.D.) in Chemical Engineering
University of Bayreuth, Germany
Thesis: “Epimerisation of the Menthol stereoisomers:
kinetic studies for the heterogeneously catalysed
menthol synthesis” (summa cum laude)
Advisor: Prof. A. Jess
2004 Dipl.­‐Ing. (M.Sc.) in Chemical Engineering
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Thesis: “Coating of carbon short fibres via chemical vapour deposition (CVD)“ Advisor: Prof. N. Popovska

Fellowships, Awards and Honors

04/2016 Awarded by the ERC with a Consolidator Grant
04/2014 Awarded by the Chinese-German Center for Promotion of Science (CDZ)
with a scholarship to support cooperation of excellent young German scientist with Chinese colleges
03/2012 Awarded by an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship as a visiting lecturer for the international Master Course ‘Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion‘ (MESC)
11/2011 Awarded by the Griess Lecture award 2011 of the Royal Society of Chemistry East Midlands Section
01/2011 Awarded by the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
01/2010 Awarded by a tenure track position within the Rising Star program of the cluster of excellence „Engineering of Advanced Materials“ of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
08/2009 Awarded by the Travel Award of the 1st Nano Today Conference 2009 in Singapore
06/2009 Awarded by the ProcessNet “Fachgemeinschaft Chemische Reaktionstechnik“ with the Hanns Hofmann price
05/2009 Awarded by the Honda German Initiation Grant 2009
04/2009 Awarded by the E.ON. Research Initiative 2008

Service to the Scientific Community

since 2019 Vice-Dean of the Chemistry Department at the Technische Universität Darmstadt
since 2019 Member of the steering group (Lenkungskreis) of the German Catalysis Society (GeCatS)
since 2019 Member of the editorial board of the ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering
since 2017 Board member of the ProcessNet section devision ‚reaction engineering‘
since 2017 Vize president of the german carbon group (Arbeitskreis Kohlenstoff)
2018 Organisation of the 2nd joined German-Chinese Symposium “Development and Technology of Carbon Materials”, Shenzhen, China
2016 Co-Organisation of the Carbocat CarboCat-VII Symposium, Strasbourg, France
2014 Organisation of the Summer School in Chemical Reaction Engineering, Aachen, Germany
2013-2015 Member of the council of the school of engineering (Technische Fakultät), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
2011-2013 Founding and board member of the young chemical reaction engineering section (Nachwuchsgruppe Reaktionstechnik), ProcessNet, Germany
2012-2016 Coordinator of the international EU-FP7 project SusFuelCat