Lutz Gade

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Lutz H. Gade (b. 1963) holds a chair of inorganic chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and is the director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry. After completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Bonn and the Technische Universit�t M�nchen, he went to Cambridge (United Kingdom) to work for his Ph.D. with Jack Lewis. Having returned to Germany after defending his doctoral thesis in 1991, he joined the Chemistry Department at the University of W�rzburg, were he finished his habilitation in 1996 and where he subsequently worked as a lecturer. In 1998 he moved to the Universit� Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg, France) to take up a full professorship in inorganic chemistry and to become the Head of the Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis. He moved to his present position in Heidelberg in October 2003 where he is also Vice-Chairman of the interdisciplinary research centre (SFB 623) on molecular catalysis. He is the author of ca. 150 research publications and one book.