Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Biography

PD Dr. rer. habil. Daniel A. M. Egbe was born in Mambanda Cameroon on the 20th of May 1966. He obtained his BSc in Physics and Chemistry (major: Organic Chemistry ) in 1991 at the University of Yaoundé Cameroon (presently known as University of Yaoundé I (UYI)- uy1.uninet.cm). He moved to the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena Germany (uni-jena.de) in 1992, where he obtained a Masters and a Ph. D in Chemistry in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He completed his "Habilitation" in Organic Chemistry at the same institution in 2006, before spending postdoctoral stays at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany (02/2006-08/2006), at the Technical University of Eindhoven in Holland (2006-2007) and at the Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany (2007-2008). Since 2009, he is a senior scientist the Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells (LIOS) (lios.at) of the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria (jku.at). His research interests are the syntheses and the study of structure-property relations of (semi)conducting organic and organic/inorganic (hybrid) materials (small molecules and polymers) finding applications in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), organic photovoltaics (OPVs), organic field effect transistors (OFETs), CO2 reduction, etc. He is member of German Chemical Society (GDCh), Organic Electronics Association (OE-A), American Chemical Society (ACS), World University Service (WUS), german chapter (member of board of directors) (wusgermany.de). He is the initiator of the German-Cameroonian Coordination office (KBK-cameroon.net), initiator of ANSOLE, initiator and chairman of ANSOLE Germany e.V. (ansole.org). Since July 2012, he is consultant at ICTP (The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste Italy) on energy issues. He speaks more than 5 languages.

Research Interest

His research interests are the syntheses and the study of structure-property relations of (semi)conducting organic and organic/inorganic (hybrid) materials (small molecules and polymers) finding applications in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), organic photovoltaics (OPVs), organic field effect transistors (OFETs), CO2 reduction, etc.