Prof. Dr. Markus Niederberger

Prof. Dr.  Markus Niederberger

Prof. Dr. Markus Niederberger

Full Professor at the Department of Materials

ETH Zürich

Professur Multifunktionsmaterial.

HCI F 509

Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/10

8093 Zürich

Switzerland

Additional information

Research area

The Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials is active in diverse research areas ranging from nanoparticle synthesis to aerogels for gas-phase photocatalysis, flexible, transparent and degradable batteries, polymers for corrosion protection and luminescent materials.

Markus Niederberger was Assistant Professor (tenure-track) from 2007-2011, Associate Professor from 2012-2016 and since 2017 Full Professor in the Department of Materials. He is Chair of the Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials. He was also Director of Studies of the Department of Materials from 2019 to 2023.

He was born in Stans, canton of Nidwalden, Switzerland, in 1970.

He concluded his studies of chemistry at ETH Zurich with a diploma in 1996 and continued at the same university to earn his doctorate in Chemistry in 2000 with Prof. Reinhard Nesper in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences.

Supported by a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation he worked from 2001-2002 as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, with Prof. Galen D. Stucky.

He then transferred to the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany, where he was a group leader from 2002-2006 in the Colloid Department of Prof. Markus Antonietti.

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Membership

Since Membership
Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry

Honours

Year Distinction
2023 Spark Award
2017 Golden Owl of the VSETH
2013 Golden Owl of the VSETH
2011 Top 100 Materials Scientists from 2000-2010

Additional information

Professor Niederberger is married and has three sons.

Course Catalogue

Spring Semester 2024

Number Unit
327-0412-00L Materials Synthesis II
327-1203-00L Synthesis and Assembly of Building Blocks
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