Bettina Valeska Lotsch (born 7 September 1977 in Frankenthal (Pfalz)) is a German chemist. She is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany.
Life Lotsch studied chemistry at LMU Munich and graduated in 2000. In 2006, she completed her dissertation in the group of at LMU. From 2007 to 2008, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of G. A. Ozin at the University of Toronto. From 2009 to the beginning of 2017, she was an assistant professor at LMU, as well as an independent group leader for the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. In 2017, she became Director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and an honorary professor at LMU.
Research Her research focuses on rational materials synthesis at the interface of solid-state chemistry, materials chemistry, and nanochemistry. Materials of her research interest are:
New materials for energy conversion and storage (e.g., porous frameworks, lithium solid electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries) Photonic nanostructures for optical sensing 2D nanosheet materials and artificial heterostructures
Selected publications
Awards Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, 2025 EU-40 Materials Prize, European Materials Research Society (EMRS), 2017 Young Elite – the Top 40 under 40 in Economy, Politics, and Society, 2015 and 2016 ERC Starting Grant, 2014 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), 2014 Fast Track Scholarship, Robert Bosch Foundation, 2008–2010 E.ON Culture Prize, 2007 Feodor Lynen Postdoc Scholarship (Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation), 2007 Dissertation award (Stiftungspreis), LMU Munich, 2007 PhD scholarship, German National Academic Foundation, 2004 PhD scholarship, Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI), 2003 Faculty Prize (best diploma), 2002 Herbert-Marcinek Prize (best preliminary diploma), 2000 Scholarship, German National Academic Foundation, 1997 Scholarship of the Stiftung Maximilianeum, 1997
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