ERC Advanced Grant
Award year: 2025
Category: Scholarship / Grant
Type: ERC Advanced Grant
Awarding organization: Europäischer Forschungsrat (ERC)
Prof. Dr. Sjoerd Harder, Head of the Chair of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry at FAU, and his team will investigate main group metals such as calcium, magnesium and aluminum in the zero-valent oxidation state in their project. Harder wants to take a particularly close look at one field of application in the second part of the project: catalysis. Contrary to all expectations, zero-valent main group metals are surprisingly good catalysts. This means that they are able to accelerate chemical reactions without being consumed in the process, even under the mildest possible conditions, i.e. at relatively low temperatures, normal pressure and low energy input.