Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Sven Schneider
Education
since 2012 W3-Professorship, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
2010 - 2012 W2-Professorship, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Nürnberg/Erlangen
2006 - 2010 Habilitation, TU München, Prof W A Herrmann
2003 - 2006 Postdoc, Northwestern University, USA, Prof T J Marks
1999 - 2003 Dissertation, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Prof A C Filippou
1999 Diploma Thesis (M.Sc.), TU Darmstadt, Prof H-F Klein
1995 - 1996 Chemistry studies, University of Bristol, UK
1993 - 1998 Chemistry studies, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Engagement in the Research System
Since 2024 Speaker of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1633 Pushing Electrons with Protons
2017-2021 Vice-Speaker of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1073 Atomic Scale Control of Energy Conversion
Since 2017 Member of the International Centre for Advanced Studies of Energy Conversion (ICASEC), Göttingen
Awards and Honors
2024 Molecular Science Frontier Lecture Professorship, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS)
2024 XingDa Lectureship, Peking University
2015 ERC Consolidator Grant
2010 Academy Award for Chemistry from the Academy of Sciences Göttingen
2009 Award from Dr.-Otto-Röhm-Foundation
2006 Emmy-Noether Programm (DFG)
2006 Liebig Stipend (FCI)
2004 Emmy-Noether Postoc Stipend (DFG)
2003 Fischer-Nernst Award (Humboldt Universität)
1999 Dr.-Anton-Keller Award (TU Darmstadt)
Representative Publications
"Triplet Carbenes with Transition-Metal Substituents", Z.-J. Lv, K. A. Eisenlohr, R. Naumann, T. Reuter, H. Verplancke, S. Demeshko, R. Herbst-Irmer, K. Heinze, M. C. Holthausen, S. Schneider,
Nat. Chem. 2024.
"Stabilizing P≡P: P22– , P2•– and P20 as bridging Ligands" J. Sun, H. Verplancke, Julia I. Schweizer, M. Diefenbach, C. Würtele, M. Otte, I. Tkach, C. Herwig, C. Limberg, S. Demeshko, Max C. Holthausen, S. Schneider, Chem. 2021, 7, 1952-1962.
(Open Access, Preview)
"Cyanate Formation via Photolytic Splitting of Dinitrogen" B. Schluschaß, J.-H. Borter, S. Rupp, S. Demeshko, C. Herwig, C. Limberg, N. Maciulis, J. Schneider, C. Würtele, V. Krewald, D. Schwarzer, S. Schneider, JACS Au 2021, 1, 879-894.
(Open Access)
"A Platinum(II) Metallonitrene with a Triplet Ground State" J. Sun, J. Abbenseth, H. Verplancke, M. Diefenbach, B. de Bruin, D. Hunger, C. Würtele, J. van Slageren, M. C. Holthausen, S. Schneider, Nature Chem. 2020, 12, 1054-1059.
(Open Access), Featured in "Trends in Chemistry".
"First-Row Transition Metal (De)hydrogenation Catalysis based on Functional Pincer Ligands" L. Alig, M. Fritz, S. Schneider Chem. Rev., 2019, 119, 2681-2751..
(Open Access)
"Metal-Ligand Cooperative Synthesis of Benzonitrile via Electrochemical Reduction and Photolytic Splitting of Dinitrogen" F. Schendzielorz, M. Finger, J. Abbenseth, C. Würtele, V. Krewald, S. Schneider Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 830-834.
(Open Access)
"Mechanism of Chemical and Electrochemical N2 Splitting by a Rhenium Pincer Complex" B. M. Lindley, R. S. van Alten, M. Finger, F. Schendzielorz, C. Würtele, A. J. M. Miller, I. Siewert, S. Schneider J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 7922-7935.
(Open Access)
"Lewis Acid-Assisted Formic Acid Dehydrogenation Using a Pincer-Supported Iron Catalyst." E. A. Bielinski, P. O. Lagaditis, Y. Zhang, B. Q. Mercado, C. Würtele, W. H. Bernskoetter, N. Hazari, S. Schneider, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 10234-10237.
"Closed-Shell and Open-Shell, square-planar Iridium Nitrido Complexes." M. G. Scheibel, B. Askevold, F. Heinemann, E. I. Reijerse, B. de Bruin,* S. Schneider* Nat. Chem. 2012, 4, 552.
"Ammonia formation by metal-ligand cooperative hydrogenolysis of a nitrido ligand." B. Askevold, J. Torres Nieto, S. Tussupbayev, M. Diefenbach, E. Herdtweck, M. C. Holthausen,* S. Schneider* Nat. Chem. 2011, 3, 532.