Awards and Fellowships 1980 Klaus-Koch Award; 1981–1984 Fellowship of the Cusanuswerk; 1985–1987 Fellowship of the Fonds of the Chemical Industry (FCI); 1987 Award of the Fonds of the Chemical Industry (FCI); 1988 Schering Award; 1991 Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Award; 1996 ADUC Award; 1997 Heisenberg Fellowship; 2005 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC); 2006 Visiting professor at the Univ. of Angers, France; 2015-2018 Visiting professor at Wuhan University of Technology, China; 2018-2020 Visiting professor at Petru Poni Institute, Iasi, Romania; 2018-2023 Visiting professor at Shenzhen Polytec, China Research Interests and Projects – Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), coordination polymers, chirality, supramolecular interactions – Metal nanoparticles: Synthesis and catalysis; nanoparticles in ionic liquids