Wacker Silicone Award 2025

We are delighted that the

Wacker Silicone Award

has once again been presented in 2025 and would like to congratulate

Prof. Lutz Greb

on this award!

Munich, Jun 23, 2025

Lutz Greb, professor at Heidelberg University’s Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, is to be presented with this year’s Silicone Award by chemical company WACKER. Since 1987, the Silicone Award has been presented to outstanding researchers in the field of silicone-based and silicon-containing chemistry every two years. Internationally speaking, Greb’s research in the field of complex chemistry and molecular catalysis is groundbreaking. He combines modern calculation methods with synthesis. Lutz Greb will receive the €10,000 award on July 16, 2025, during the 11th European Silicon Days in Salzburg, Austria.

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