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A. Funck

University of Hamburg

Department of Chemistry

Institute for TMC


		Prof. Dr. Walter Kaminsky Bundesstr. 45 20146 Hamburg Tel +49 (0)40 42838-3166 Fax +49 (0)40 42838-6008 kaminsky@chemie.uni-hamburg.de [biography] [awards] [research] [publications]

	Please do not send any more applications. Prof. Dr. Kaminsky has retired. Prof. Dr. Walter Kaminsky was born 1941 in Hamburg and studied chemistry at the University of Hamburg. Since 1979 he has been a full professor for technical and macromolecular chemistry at the University of Hamburg. He received vocations to the Universities of Oldenburg and Karlsruhe. He supervises a group of 12 students and scientists in the field of metallocene/MAO catalysis and a group in the field of recycling of plastics and scrap tires by pyrolysis. His past experience includes the discovery of a highly active, soluble metallocene catalyst system for the polymerization of olefins and the development of a technical pyrolysis plant for acquiring valuable fractions from waste containing hydrocarbons. Further research and lectures are in the field of chemical engineering, energy production, recycling, land filling and macromolecular chemistry. He was President of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh), Hamburg section, Dean of the faculty of chemistry at the University of Hamburg, Director of the Institute for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, and is a member of the GDCh, DECHEMA, Naturforscher und Ärzte, Verein deutscher Ingenieure, and Amcerican Chemical Society. He has published more than 300 articles and books and holds 20 patents. He organized several international symposia in the field of olefin polymerization and pyrolysis of polymer wastes and was guest professor for courses in macromolecular chemistry in Rennes, France. He is advisor for authorities and companies in the fields of metallocene catalysts, polymerization of olefins, and recycling of plastics and environmental protection. Awards

1988	European Research Prize for the Recycling of Plastic Waste, together with Hansjörg Sinn
1991	Heinz Beckurts Prize for isotactic polymerization with metallocene catalysts, together with Hans H. Brintzinger
1995	Alwin Mittasch Medal for the metallocene catalysts, together with Hans H. Brintzinger, Hansjörg Sinn
1996	Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
1997	Carothers Award of the American Chemical Society, Delaware Section for Contributions and Advances in Industrial Applications of Chemistry
1997	Walter Ahlström Prize, Helsinki/Finland, together with Hans H. Brintzinger, Hansjörg Sinn
1998	Honorary Professor of the Zhejiang University in China
1999	Benjamin Franklin Medal for Chemistry
1999	Outstanding Achievement Award of the Society of Plastic Engineers, SPE Devision, USA
2003	Hermann Staudinger Prize 2002


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