New Appointments at the University
On April 1, 2022, two professors were newly appointed to Chemnitz University of Technology by the rector
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On April 1, Prof. Dr. Lewis Chuang (right) was newly appointed to the Faculty of Humanities and Prof. Dr. Robert Kretschmer to the Faculty of Natural Sciences. Photos/Collage:Katarzyna Mazur, private / Jacob Müller
Prof. Dr. Lewis Chuang has been appointed to the Faculty of Humanities at Chemnitz University of Technology as of April 1, 2022. He heads the Professorship of Humans and Technology there.
Prof. Dr. Robert Kretschmer was appointed to the Professorship of Inorganic Chemistry at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Chemnitz University of Technology as of April 1, 2022.
About the person: Prof. Dr. Lewis Chuang
Lewis Chuang studied psychology at the University of York (UK) and graduated with a Bachelor of Science. He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Manchester (UK) and completed a master's degree in psychology.
He then moved to the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen as a research associate and received his PhD in neuroscience in 2011 with a dissertation on "Recognizing objects from dynamic visual experiences" at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.
This was followed by positions as an academic advisor in the Department of Computer Science at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and as a research associate at the Leibniz Research Center for Working Environment and Human Factors in Dortmund, before Chuang accepted a position at Chemnitz University of Technology.
About the person: Prof. Dr. Robert Kretschmer
Born in 1984 in Zossen (Brandenburg), Robert Kretschmer first undertook an apprenticeship as a laboratory technician and worked for several years in the pharmaceutical industry before taking up his chemistry studies at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. For his doctorate, he moved to the Technische Universität Berlin in 2010, equipped with a Kekule Fellowship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie. In 2012, he completed his dissertation on "N-H bond activation and C-N coupling mediated by transition-metal complexes in the gas phase." Thanks to a Feodor Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he went to the University of California at San Diego (USA) for his postdoctoral studies. He briefly returned to TU Berlin before conducting his research at the University of Regensburg from 2015 to 2019, first as a Liebig fellow and later as head of an Emmy Noether research group. In 2019, he accpeted the call to an assistant professor (tenure track) in Inorganic Chemistry of Catalysis at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, before he accepted the call to Chemnitz University of Technology. Robert Kretschmer is an elected member of the Junge Akademie at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, where he is spokesperson for the working groups Wissenschaftspolitik (Science Policy) and ProMotion - Qualifikation im Wandel (Qualification in Change).
(Article: Matthias Fejes / Translation: Brent Benofsky)
Matthias Fejes
05.04.2022
