About me

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bastian J. M. Etzold   


Head of the institute

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Institute for Power-to-X-Technologies

Room: 3-023 (T1)
Dr.-Mack-Straße 81
90762 Fürth, Germany

Phone Number Office: Room: +49913185-65000

Email Address: bastian.etzold@fau.de

Website: https://www.ptx.tf.fau.de

Personal Details: Born 12.04.1979, married, 4 children

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Curriculum Vitae

Education & Research Experience
since 08/2023Professorship for Power-to-X Technologies,  Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
12/2015-07/2023Professorship for Chemical Technology (permanent, W3)
Chemistry Department of Technische Universität Darmstadt
04/2015-11/2015Professorship for Catalytic Materials (permanent, W2)
Chemical- and Biological Engineering Department, FAU
05/2014Offer for a full professorship for Chemical Engineering at an excellent UK university (Russell international excellence group).
01/2010-03/2015Juniorprofessor for Catalytic Materials (tenure track, W1) assistant professorship (Juniorprofessur), Chemical- and Biological Engineering Department, FAU
01/2011-06/2011Drexel University, Feodor-Lynen Research Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation), Materials Science and Engineering, Philadelphia
04/2008-12/2009Postdoctoral fellow, Cluster of Excellence “Engineering of Advanced Materials”, FAU
2008Dipl.-Kfm. (M.Sc.) inEconomics
University of Hagen
Thesis: “Organizational intelligence – a critical analysis“ Advisor: Prof. J. Weibler
2007Dr.-­Ing. (Ph.D.) in Chemical Engineering
University of Bayreuth, Germany
Thesis: “Epimerisation of the Menthol stereoisomers:
kinetic studies for the heterogeneously catalysed
menthol synthesis” (summa cum laude)
Advisor: Prof. A. Jess
2004Dipl.­‐Ing. (M.Sc.) in Chemical Engineering
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Thesis: “Coating of carbon short fibres via chemical vapour deposition (CVD)“ Advisor: Prof. N. Popovska
Fellowships, Awards and Honors
2023Awarded with a Bavarian Distinguished Professorship (Bayerische Spitzenprofessur)
2022Visiting Professor at the University Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier (Host Prof. Serp)
2016Awarded by the ERC with a Consolidator Grant
2014Awarded by the Chinese-German Center for Promotion of Science (CDZ)
with a scholarship to support cooperation of excellent young German scientist with Chinese colleges
2012Awarded by an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship as a visiting lecturer for the international Master Course ‘Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion‘ (MESC)
2011Awarded by the Griess Lecture award 2011 of the Royal Society of Chemistry East Midlands Section
2011Awarded by the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
2010Awarded by a tenure track position within the Rising Star program of the cluster of excellence „Engineering of Advanced Materials“ of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
2009Awarded by the Travel Award of the 1st Nano Today Conference 2009 in Singapore
2009Awarded by the ProcessNet “Fachgemeinschaft Chemische Reaktionstechnik“ with the Hanns Hofmann price
2009Awarded by the Honda German Initiation Grant 2009
2009Awarded by the E.ON. Research Initiative 2008
Service to the Scientific Community
2024-
2028
Elected member of the DFG review board 4.21-02 Technische Chemie
since 2024Elected managing board member (Vorstand) of the German Catalysis Society (GeCatS)
since 2024Editorial Board Member of Carbon Future
since 2023Member of the selection committee for Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research scholarships
since 2019Member of the editorial board of the ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering
since 2017Board member of the ProcessNet section devision ‚reaction engineering‘
since 2017Vize president of the german carbon group (Arbeitskreis Kohlenstoff)
2018-
2024
Member of the steering group (Lenkungskreis) of the German Catalysis Society (GeCatS)
2022-
2023
Coordinator of TU Darmstadt’s xchange-Cluster H2, which is an innovation hub for industry with 25 research groups involved
2021-
2023
Elected Member of TU Darmstadt’s University Assembly
2019-
2023
Vice-Dean of the Department of Chemistry, TU Darmstadt
2013-2015Member of the council of the school of engineering (Technische Fakultät), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
2011-2013Founding and board member of the young chemical reaction engineering section (Nachwuchsgruppe Reaktionstechnik), ProcessNet, Germany