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Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Katharina Schröder is assigned to the Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, opens an external URL in a new window (E163) within the Faculty of Technical Chemistry, opens an external URL in a new window at TU Wien, assuming her post as University Professor for Sustainable Chemistry, with effect from 1 May 2021.

Katharina Schröder studied Technical Chemistry at the TU Wien and was awarded her doctorate in 2008 for the thesis “Chiral and metal functionalized ionic liquids in organic synthesis”, opens an external URL in a new window. A 2-year research stay at Queen’s University in Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK) with Prof. Kenneth R. Seddon and Prof. Robin D. Rogers allowed her to specialize in sustainable (green) chemistry and ionic liquids. A subsequent research stay in 2009 took her to the DTU (Denmark's Technical University) in Copenhagen. In 2010 she returned to TU Wien and in 2015 obtained her Venia Docendi for Organic Chemistry with the habilitation thesis "Functionalized Ionic Liquids and their Applications". Since 2016 she has held a tenure-track position on the subject of Sustainable Synthesis and is Associate Professor since 2018. In 2019 she was able to win an ERC Consolidator Grant, opens an external URL in a new window.

Her scientific home is the Research Unit of Organic and Biological Chemistry at the Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry. Here she heads the Research Group for Sustainable Organic Chemistry and Catalysis, opens an external URL in a new window and deals with new catalytic processes in asymmetrical synthesis.

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