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Günther Knör

Günther Knör (* 1965 in Eichstätt, Bavaria) is a German chemist and professor of  inorganic chemistry. He founded and directed the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry - Center of Nanobionics and Photochemical Sciences (CNPS) at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz.

Life

Knör studied chemistry at the University of Regensburg from 1985 to 1990. In 1994 he received his doctorate with “summa cum laude“ in the field of inorganic photochemistry (solar energy storage by means of photocatalysis) at the University of Regensburg. Important research stays led him to Vincenzo Balzani at the Giacomo Ciamician institute of the University of Bologna and to the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. In 2001 he finished his habilitation thesis in inorganic chemistry at the University of Regensburg (bio-inspired enzyme models and artificial photosynthesis). In 2003 he was a visiting professor at the institute of inorganic chemistry at the University of Vienna, where he lectured bioinorganic chemistry. One year later he took over a professorship at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (photocatalysis).

As a full professor and institute director, he shaped the fields of inorganic chemistry and photochemistry at JKU since 2006. Knör was managing board member of the photochemistry section of the German Chemical Society for eight years, involved in the frontiers of science programme of the Alexander von Humboldt-foundation and, from 2008 on also active as a section head of the Austrian chemical society  He is a board member of the division of chemistry and energy of the European chemical society. In 2019 Knör accepted an invitation to be a visiting scientist at Harvard University

Focal points of research

• • Inorganic chemistry, photochemistry, catalysis
  • Interdisciplinary aspects of light-driven and light-controlled processes in chemistry, materials science, medicine and life sciences
  • Synthesis and characterisation of metal complexes, coordination compounds, organometallic compounds and (nano)materials with tailored functions
  • Electronic structure and photonic properties of molecules and materials
  • Photophysics and luminescence of molecular and supramolecular systems
  • (Bio-)inorganic chemistry, bionics and catalysis, biomimetic model compounds, controlled release of drug molecules
  • Chemistry and spectroscopy of dyes and photosensitizers (porphyrins, phthalocyanines, corroles, diimines)
  • Solar chemistry, sustainable catalytic processes, storage and conversion of solar energy, artificial photosynthesis
  • Synthetic biology and artificial enzymes

Scientific treatises (selection)

• • Photophysics and photochemistry of porphyrin complexes of antimony: development of homogeneous photocatalytic model systems for solar energy utilization, conversion and storage. 1994, OCLC 75582736 (Diss., Universität Regensburg, 1994).
  • Studies on mimicking and replacing enzyme-catalysed substrate conversion reactions by photochemical activation of coordination compounds. 2001, doi:10.5283/epub.43615 (Habil., Universität Regensburg).
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Weblinks

• Publications by Günther Knör  
• Academic genealogy of Günther Knör
• Monographs by Günther Knör

Individual references

[[Category:1965 births]] [[Category:German people]] [[Category:Academic staff of Johannes Kepler University Linz]] [[Category:21st-century chemists]] [[Category:20th-century chemists]]