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| Prof. Dr. Helmut Tributsch | |
|---|---|
| 1943 | Born in Klagenfurt, grown up in a mountain village in Friuli (Italy), school attendance in Villach (Austria) |
| 1961-1967 | Technical University of Munich, study of physics and physical chemistry, diploma examination 1967 |
| 1968 | Ph.D. thesis on mechanisms of dye solar cells, with excellence (with Prof. Gerischer) |
| 1969 | Robert Luther Award of the German Photographic Society |
| 1969-1971 | Postdoctoral research on dye solar cells operating with chlorophylls, University of California, Berkeley, USA (with Prof. M. Calvin) |
| 1972-1973 | Universidad de Chile and Instituto Technologico de Chile (applied research in copper mining) |
| 1974-1977 | Fritz-Haber-Institut of Max-Planck-Society, Berlin |
| 1978 | Guest Scientist, Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan |
| 1979-1981 | Guest Scientist (Heisenberg-Fellow) at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris (Meudon) |
| 1980 | elected fellow international of the Explorer`s Club in New York |
| 1982 | Full professor for Physical Chemistry, Free University Berlin, until retirement 2008, and head of the department Solare Energetik at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut / later Helmholtz Centre for Materials and Energy Berlin |
| 1985-1986 | Walter-Schottky-Professor, Stanford University, USA |
| 1987-1997 | Founding member and member of the Board of Directors of EUROSOLAR with focus on energy politics for a sustainable energy-economy |
| 1993, 1998, 2001, 2006 | Guest Scientist, Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz (USA); University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Universidad de La Laguna, Spain; University of Madras, India (Sir Raman Prof.); CSIRO, Perth, Australia; University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| 2008 | Retirement from Free University Berlin, Department Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Berlin, Germany and from Helmholtz-Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy. Moving to home farm in Friuli, Italy |
| 2010 to 2019 | Teaching in the master program Biomimetics in Energy Systems at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Villach, Austria |
| 2011 | Heinz Gerischer Award of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) |
| Research | on solar energy conversion with main activities in: Photoelectrochemistry, photoelectrolysis of water, photovoltaic hydrogen generation and photocatalysis, new solar energy and nano-materials, solar cells, especially nano-solar cells and dye solar cells, interfacial and surface analytical techniques applied to energy converting interfaces, nonlinear and cooperative mechanisms of photon energy conversion, solar powered chemosynthetic pathways and bioenergetic mechanisms. Bionic (bio-analogue) strategies for energy technology. More than 450 scientific publications, 13 books on energy and on natural phenomena |
| Research | on time as a trace of energy and a universe driven by energy and time |