Barbara Ruth Albert (born 9 December 1966) is a German chemist and rector of the

University of Duisburg-Essen The University of Duisburg-Essen (german: link=no, Universität Duisburg-Essen) is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', the university was awarded ...

. She was Professor of Solid State Chemistry at the Eduard-Zintl-Institute for Inorganic and Physical Chemistry of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. From 2012 to 2013 she was the president of the

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. Her research focuses on the synthesis of borides, borates and hydro borates, and solids with interesting physical properties.

Life

Albert studied Chemistry at the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

from 1985 to 1990. She worked on her dissertation in the group of until 1995. With the help of the Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Materials Research Laboratory of the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduate ...

in the group of Anthony Cheetham. In 2000 she habilitated at the University of Bonn, where she became a

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in 2001. In the same year she became a professor at the

University of Hamburg The University of Hamburg (german: link=no, Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vor ...

, where she was also Managing Director of the Institute for Inorganic and Applied Chemistry from 2003 to 2005. From 2005 to 2022 she was a professor at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. From 2012 to 2013 she was the president of the

. She has been a member of the supervisory board of Evonik Industries since 2014 and of the supervisory board of the

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since 2016. Since April 2022, she is rector of the

Awards

* Bennigsen-Foerder Prize in 1997 * Prize of the Working Group of German University Professors of Chemistry (ADUC) in 2000 * Member of the

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since 2016

References

External links

CV at Technische Universität Darmstadt
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Albert, Barbara Living people 1966 births 20th-century German chemists German women chemists 21st-century German chemists University of Bonn alumni Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt Society of German Chemists Academic staff of the University of Hamburg Academic staff of the University of Duisburg-Essen 21st-century German women scientists Solid state chemists Presidents of the German Chemical Society