Bettina Valeska Lotsch (born 7 September 1977 in Frankenthal (Pfalz)) is a German chemist.^[1][2] She is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany.

Life

Lotsch studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and graduated in 2000.^[1] In 2006, she completed her dissertation in the group of Wolfgang Schnick [de] at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.^[1] From 2007 to 2008, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of G. A. Ozin at the University of Toronto.^[1] From 2009 to the beginning of 2017, she was an assistant professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich,^[1] as well as an independent group leader for the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research.^[1] In 2017, she became Director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and an honorary professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.^[1]

Research

Her research focuses on rational materials synthesis at the interface of solid-state chemistry, materials chemistry, and nanochemistry.^[1] Materials of her research interest are:^[1]

• New materials for energy conversion and storage (e.g., porous frameworks, lithium solid electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries)^[1]
• Photonic nanostructures for optical sensing^[1]
• 2D nanosheet materials and artificial heterostructures^[1]

Selected publications

• Lau, Vincent Wing-hei; Klose, Daniel; Kasap, Hatice; Podjaski, Filip; Pignié, Marie-Claire; Reisner, Erwin; Jeschke, Gunnar; Lotsch, Bettina V. (2017). "Dark Photocatalysis: Storage of Solar Energy in Carbon Nitride for Time-Delayed Hydrogen Generation". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56 (2): 510–514. doi:10.1002/anie.201608553. ISSN 1521-3773. PMC 6680103. PMID 27930846.
• Lotsch, Bettina V.; Blum, Volker; Senker, Jürgen; Duppel, Viola; Mesch, Maria B.; Weinberger, Simon; Botari, Tiago; Moudrakovski, Igor; Lau, Vincent Wing-hei (8 July 2016). "Rational design of carbon nitride photocatalysts by identification of cyanamide defects as catalytically relevant sites". Nature Communications. 7: 12165. Bibcode:2016NatCo...712165L. doi:10.1038/ncomms12165. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 4941108. PMID 27387536.
• Ast, Christian R.; Lotsch, Bettina V.; Parkin, Stuart S. P.; Duppel, Viola; Dmitry Marchenko; Varykhalov, Andrei; Topp, Andreas; Straßer, Carola; Ali, Mazhar N. (31 May 2016). "Dirac cone protected by non-symmorphic symmetry and three-dimensional Dirac line node in ZrSiS". Nature Communications. 7: 11696. arXiv:1509.00861. Bibcode:2016NatCo...711696S. doi:10.1038/ncomms11696. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 4895020. PMID 27241624.
• Lotsch, Bettina V.; Ochsenfeld, Christian; Podjaski, Filip; Savasci, Gökcen; Stegbauer, Linus; Haase, Frederik; Vyas, Vijay S. (30 September 2015). "A tunable azine covalent organic framework platform for visible light-induced hydrogen generation". Nature Communications. 6: 8508. Bibcode:2015NatCo...6.8508V. doi:10.1038/ncomms9508. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 4598847. PMID 26419805.
• Szendrei, Katalin; Ganter, Pirmin; Sànchez‐Sobrado, Olalla; Eger, Roland; Kuhn, Alexander; Lotsch, Bettina V. (2015). "Touchless Optical Finger Motion Tracking Based on 2D Nanosheets with Giant Moisture Responsiveness". Advanced Materials. 27 (41): 6341–6348. Bibcode:2015AdM....27.6341S. doi:10.1002/adma.201503463. ISSN 1521-4095. PMID 26394013. S2CID 5916526.
• Lotsch, B. V.; Senker, J.; Mesch, M. B.; Hug, S.; Schwinghammer, K. (28 October 2015). "Phenyl-triazine oligomers for light-driven hydrogen evolution". Energy & Environmental Science. 8 (11): 3345–3353. doi:10.1039/C5EE02574E. ISSN 1754-5706.
• Lau, Vincent Wing-hei; Mesch, Maria B.; Duppel, Viola; Blum, Volker; Senker, Jürgen; Lotsch, Bettina V. (28 January 2015). "Low-Molecular-Weight Carbon Nitrides for Solar Hydrogen Evolution" (PDF). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137 (3): 1064–1072. doi:10.1021/ja511802c. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 25537611.
• Schwinghammer, Katharina; Mesch, Maria B.; Duppel, Viola; Ziegler, Christian; Senker, Jürgen; Lotsch, Bettina V. (5 February 2014). "Crystalline Carbon Nitride Nanosheets for Improved Visible-Light Hydrogen Evolution". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136 (5): 1730–1733. doi:10.1021/ja411321s. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 24432762.
• Lotsch, Bettina V.; Schwinghammer, Katharina; Stegbauer, Linus (3 June 2014). "A hydrazone-based covalent organic framework for photocatalytic hydrogen production". Chemical Science. 5 (7): 2789–2793. arXiv:1401.3656. Bibcode:2014arXiv1401.3656S. doi:10.1039/C4SC00016A. ISSN 2041-6539. S2CID 37487748.
• Schwinghammer, Katharina; Tuffy, Brian; Mesch, Maria B.; Wirnhier, Eva; Martineau, Charlotte; Taulelle, Francis; Schnick, Wolfgang; Senker, Jürgen; Lotsch, Bettina V. (2013). "Triazine-based Carbon Nitrides for Visible-Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52 (9): 2435–2439. doi:10.1002/anie.201206817. ISSN 1521-3773. PMID 23341324.

Awards

• EU-40 Materials Prize, European Materials Research Society (EMRS), 2017^[3][4]
• Young Elite – the Top 40 under 40 in Economy, Politics, and Society, 2015 and 2016^[5][6]
• ERC Starting Grant, 2014^[1]
• Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), 2014^[1]
• Fast Track Scholarship, Robert Bosch Foundation, 2008–2010^[1][7]
• E.ON Culture Prize, 2007^[1][7]
• Feodor Lynen Postdoc Scholarship (Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation), 2007^[1][7]
• Dissertation award (Stiftungspreis), LMU Munich, 2007^[1]
• PhD scholarship, German National Academic Foundation, 2004^[1]
• PhD scholarship, Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI), 2003^[1]
• Faculty Prize (best diploma), 2002^[1]
• Herbert-Marcinek Prize (best preliminary diploma), 2000^[1]
• Scholarship, German National Academic Foundation, 1997^[1]
• Scholarship of the Stiftung Maximilianeum, 1997^[1]