Johannes A. Lercher

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Johannes A. Lercher, studied Chemistry at TU Wien, receiving his PhD in 1981 at the same institution. After a year at Yale University, he joined TU Wien as Lecturer, later Associate Professor. 1993 he was appointed Professor in the Department of Chemical Technology at the University Twente, the Netherlands and in 1998 in the Department of Chemistry of TU München, Germany. Since 2011 he is also Director of the Institute for Integrated Catalysis at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA. Being member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences, and the US National Academy of Engineering, he has been President of the European Federation of Catalysis Societies and the International Zeolite Association. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Catalysis. Recent awards include the ENI Award (hydrocarbons), the David Trimm and Noel Cant Lectureship of the Australian Catalysis Society, the R.B. Anderson Award of the Canadian Catalysis Society, the Francois Gault Lectureship Award of the European Federation of Catalysis Societies, and the Robert Burwell Lectureship in Catalysis of the North American Catalysis Society. Research interests are related to catalysis in nanostructured catalysts, focusing on understanding the influence of the steric and chemical environment to tailor catalytic sites.