Nanoionics - An Exciting Interface between Electrochemistry and Nanotechnology 2008.6.27 PM15:00----Institute of Chemistry the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Prof. Dr. Joachim Maier is director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart (Germany) and heads the department of Physical Chemistry. J. Maier has authored/co-authored about 500 scientific papers in refereed journals 12 patents in the field of physical chemistry and electrochemistry of the solid state. His major research field is ion transport in solids. He received the Carl-Duisberg-Award of the German Chemical Society the E.-Martin-Prize of the University of Saarbrücken and the Norman Hackerman Award of the Electrochemical Society. He is co-recipient of the 2002 2004 and 2005 Edward C. Henry Award and of the 2005 Ross Coffin Purdy Award of The American Ceramics Society. He is member of the German Academy of Sciences and Literature (Mainz) member of the Academia Europaea Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Honorary Member of the National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana. Joachim Maier is Editor-in-Chief of Solid State Ionics and on the Board of various scientific journals (Adv. Funct. Mater. J. Electroceramics J. Solid State Electrochem. Materials Science Foundation Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. Trends in Physical Chemistry). He served as officer on councils of various societies and organisations (ISE ISSI DBG GDCh MPG BDI IAEA FZ Jülich among others); he was chairman of the Solid State Chemistry Division of GDCh chairman of the New Topics Committee (International Society of Electrochemistry) and Titular Member of the IUPAC Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division Committee.