Prof. Martin Stratmann

Martin Stratmann studied chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum and completed his diploma at the Chair of Physical Chemistry I. Subsequently, he obtained his PhD at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH (1982) and conducted his postdoctoral research at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA (1984). He returned to the MPI für Eisenforschung GmbH and became head of the corrosion research group there in 1987. Martin Stratmann habilitated in physical chemistry at the University of Düsseldorf (1992) and held the Chair of Corrosion and Surface Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 1994 to 1995. Since 2000, he has been Director and Scientific Member at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH.

Prof. Stratmann has been awarded, among others, the Otto Hahn Medal of the MPG, the UR Evans Award of the Institute of Corrosion and the HH Uhlig Award of the Electrochemical Society, which also named him a Fellow. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Karl Winnacker Institute of DECHEMA, the Academy of Science and Engineering – acatech, the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security (HGI), the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. From 2008 to 2014, he was Vice President of the Chemical-Physical-Technical Section of the Max Planck Society. Martin Stratmann was President of the Max Planck Society from June 2014 to June 2023. He has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires and the Weizmann Award in the Sciences and Humanities.