Title: One-pot Multicomponent Syntheses of Functional Chromophores –   Synthetic Efficiency Meets Functionality Design

Speaker: Prof.Thomas J.J.Mueller

Time: 10:00-11:30 AM, January 14, 2026 

Venue: 501 Meeting Room, State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices (North Campus)

Speaker Biography

Thomas J. J. Müller, born in Würzburg, Germany, in 1964, studied chemistry (1984-1989) at the University of München (LMU) (diploma 1989; Ph.D. 1992). After a post-doctoral stay at Stanford University (1993/1994) as a Feodor Lynen fellow (Alexander von Humboldt foundation), he developed his independent research at Technical University Darmstadt and LMU (1994-1999; habilitation 2000) (as recipient of the Liebig fellowship of the Funds of Chemical Industry and the habilitation scholarship of DFG). After a professorship at the University of Heidelberg (2002-2006) he is a chaired full professor at the University of Düsseldorf since 2006, and since 2019 the spokesman of the Research Training Group 2482 funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG). In 2013 he was awarded with First Prize of Evonik Call for Research Proposals (ECRP). He was a member of the board of Liebig Society of Organic Chemistry for two election periods (2016-2023). Since 2021 he is a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He was elected in 2023 as a member of the DFG decision panel on funding of projects in chemistry. He is member of board of several foundations and selection committees. His research interests encompass synthetic and physical-organic chemistry of functional chromophores, and the design of novel one-pot reactions, documented in more than 350 publications.