Draft:Hartmut Herrmann

Hartmut Herrmann (born December 24, 1961, in Stolzenau, Germany) is a German chemist and professor of atmospheric chemistry at Leipzig University.

He is Head of the atmospheric chemistry department (ACD) at Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) in Leipzig. He is also a professor of environmental science and engineering at Fudan University, China, since 2015 and a „Distinguished Visiting Professor“ at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, China, since 2018.

Biography

Early life and education

Herrmann was born in Stolzenau and attended the Albert-Schweitzer-Schule in Nienburg/Weser, a high school focused on language and science, from 1972 to 1981.

After completing his basic military service, Herrmann studied chemistry at the University of Göttingen in 1982; in 1987 he graduated from the Institute of Physical Chemistry. His thesis was entitled „Blitzlichtphotolyse Konduktometrie-Untersuchungen und Simulationsrechnungen zur Photolyse des Nitrat-Ions“ (translated, "Flash photolysis Conductometry studies and simulation calculations for the photolysis of the nitrate ion") and was supervised by Reinhard Zellner.

Herrmann then completed his doctorate from 1987 to 1990 on the subject of "Zeitaufgelöste Laser-Photolyse und Stopped-Flow-Untersuchungen atmosphärisch-chemischer Oxidantien in wässriger Phase" (translated, “Time-resolved laser photolysis and stopped-flow investigations of atmospheric-chemical oxidants in aqueous phase”).

Career

After completing his doctorate, Herrmann was initially a research assistant at the Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover from 1990 to 1992 and then at the Institute for Physics and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Essen. Herrmann continued to work at the latter institute as a research assistant and completed his habilitation in the Department of Chemistry in 1998 on the subject of “Photochemical formation, spectroscopy and kinetics (chemistry) of free radicals in aqueous solution”. During this time, he spent several research stays at the California Institute of Technology with Michael R. Hoffmann. His research there focused mainly on photocatalysis, its applications in aqueous solution chemistry, and atmospheric chemistry.

While completing his habilitation in Essen, Herrmann was appointed Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of Leipzig in 1998 as well as Head of the Atmospheric Chemistry Department (ACD) at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS). Herrmann's research work expanded considerably when he joined the institute; in addition to his previous liquid-phase studies, he also began investigating gas-phase and heterogeneous reactions, greatly systematized and expanded multiphase modeling with CAPRAM and also developed and has since carried out an extensive program of field measurements on atmospheric chemistry.

He is a member of the Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences and the Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy at Leipzig University. Herrmann was active in the university's academic self-government as an elected member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences and the University Council.

Herrmann has been a Professor in Environmental Science and Engineering at Fudan University, China, since 2015 and a "Distinguished Visiting Professor" at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at Shandong University since 2018.

He has been Deputy Director of the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) in Leipzig since 2011.

Personal life

Hartmut Herrmann is married and has three children.

Scientific work

Herrmann's research aims to understand the tropospheric multiphase system to the point of its predictability.

To this end, he develops models based on experimental laboratory and field tests. As part of the laboratory investigations, physical and analytical chemical methods are used to investigate processes in the gas phase, in aqueous systems, in organic particles, on surfaces as well as coupled multiphase phenomena. In the field, techniques are used to understand the chemical processing and the resulting composition of tropospheric particles, clouds, and rain in their complex interaction.

Professor Herrmann was involved in 138 third-party funded research projects supported by the EU and by German research organizations such as the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) or the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology (LfULG).

Professional memberships

• German Chemical Society (GDCh) (since 2004 Head of the Working Group for Atmospheric Chemistry within the GDCh Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology)
• German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry (DBG)
• Chairperson of the ProcessNet/GDCh/KRdL-Community Committee for Particulate Matters
• IUPAC Task Group on Atmospheric Chemical Kinetic Data Evaluation
• Appointed member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Commission on Air Pollution Prevention (KRdL) of VDI and DIN (2004-2013)
• ProcessNet/GDCh/DBG Community Committee “Chemistry, Air Quality and Climate (CLK)
• Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
• Member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences
• Member of the Academia Europaea

Scholarships and Prizes

• Honor Award for Scientific Excellence awarded by the American Chemical Society together with the Working Group "Environmental Chemistry"(ACSENV)
• Double-Hundred Talent Plan of the Shandong Province
• Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize, 2009/2010: for excellence in science and fostering French-German scientific collaboration - first German recipient of this prize in Atmospheric Sciences
• Research grant by the German Chemical Industry Fund (FCI), 1997
• Post-Doc scholarship by NATO/DAAD, 1992/1993(DAAD)
• Graduation scholarship of the German Chemical Industry Fund (FCI), 1990
• Ph.D. scholarship of the German Chemical Industry Fund (FCI), 1987

Publications (Selection)

Herrmann has published 445 peer-reviewed articles and 22 book chapters (Stand 09/2024).

Peer-reviewed articles

• Poulain, L., Spindler, G., Grüner, A., Tuch, T., Stieger, B., Van Pinxteren, D., Petit, J.-E., Favez, O., Herrmann, H., Wiedensohler, A. Multi-year ACSM measurements at the central European research station Melpitz (Germany) – Part 1: Instrument robustness, quality assurance, and impact of upper size cutoff diameter. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 13, 4973-4994, doi:10.5194/amt-13-4973-2020 (2020).
• Rusumdar, A. J., Tilgner, A., Wolke, R. Treatment of non-ideality in the SPACCIM multiphase model – Part 2: Impacts on the multiphase chemical processing in deliquesced aerosol particles. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20, 10351-10377, doi:10.5194/acp-20-10351-2020 (2020).
• Hoffmann, E. H., Schrödner, R., Tilgner, A., Wolke, R., Herrmann, H. CAPRAM reduction towards an operational multiphase halogen and dimethyl sulfide chemistry treatment in the chemistry transport model COSMO-MUSCAT (5.04e). Geoscientific Model Development 13, 2587-2609, doi:10.5194/gmd-13-2587-2020 (2020).
• Schaefer, T., Wen, L., Estelmann, A., Maak, J., Herrmann, H. pH- and Temperature-Dependent Kinetics of the Oxidation Reactions of OH with Succinic and Pimelic Acid in Aqueous Solution. Atmosphere 11(4), doi:10.3390/atmos11040320 (2020).
• Spranger, T., van Pinxteren, D., Herrmann, H. Atmospheric “HULIS” in Different Environments: Polarities, Molecular Sizes, and Sources Suggest More Than 50% Are Not “Humic-like”. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 4(2), 272, doi:10.1021/acsearthspacechem.9b00299 (2020).

Reviews & book chapters

• Pye, H. O. T., Nenes, A., Alexander, B., Ault, A. P., Barth, M. C., Clegg, S. L., Collett Jr, J. L., Fahey, K. M., Hennigan, C. J., Herrmann, H., Kanakidou, M., Kelly, J. T., Ku, I. T., McNeill, V. F., Riemer, N., The acidity of atmospheric particles and clouds, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20, 4809–4888, doi:10.5194/acp-20-4809-2020 (2020).
• Herrmann, H., Schaefer, T., Tilgner, A., Styler, S. A., Weller, C., Teich, M. and Otto, T., Tropospheric Aqueous-Phase Chemistry: Kinetics, Mechanisms, and Its Coupling to a Changing Gas Phase, Chemical Reviews, 115, 4259–4334, doi:10.1021/cr500447k (2015).
• Nielsen, C. J., Herrmann, H. and Weller, C., Atmospheric chemistry and environmental impact of the use of amines in carbon capture and storage (CCS), Chemical Society Reviews, 41, 6684–6704, doi:10.1039/c2cs35059a (2012).
• Herrmann, H. and Zellner, R., "Reactions of NO₃-radicals in aqueous solution" The Chemistry of Free Radicals: N-Centered Radicals. Z. B. Alfassi. New York, Wiley: 291–343, ISBN 978-0-471-96186-4 (1996).
• Zellner, R. and Herrmann, H., "Free radical chemistry of the aqueous atmospheric phase" Spectroscopy in Environmental Science. R. J. H. Clark and R. E. Hester. London, Wiley. 24: 381–451, ISBN 978-0-471-95370-8 (1995).

External links

• Hartmut Herrmann auf Twitter
• Hartmut Herrmann auf Researchgate
• Hartmut Herrmann auf Loop
• Hartmut Herrmann publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Publication list Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research