Joachim Maier (born 5 May 1955) is Emeritus Director at the

Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research The Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (German: ''Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung'') was founded in 1969 and is one of the 84 institutes of the Max Planck Society. It is located on a campus in Stuttgart, together with th ...

in Stuttgart (Germany) and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society.

Education and career

Maier studied chemistry at

Saarland University Saarland University (, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in six faculties that cover all major ...

in Saarbrücken, made his Masters and PhD in Physical Chemistry there. He received his

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at the

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (; ), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The University of Tübingen is one of eleven German Excellenc ...

. From 1988 to 1991 he was responsible for the activities on functional ceramics at the MPI for Metals Research in Stuttgart, and from 1988 to 1996 he taught defect chemistry at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

. Notwithstanding other prestigious offers, he decided in favor of the Max Planck Society. In 1991 he was appointed Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society, Director at the MPI for Solid State Research and Honorary Professor at the

University of Stuttgart The University of Stuttgart () is a research university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized into 10 faculties. It is one of the oldest technical universities in Germany with programs in civil, mechanical, ind ...

. He is the recipient of various prizes and a member of various national and international academies including

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (), in short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founded on 1 January 1652, based on academic models in Italy, it was originally named the ''Academi ...

, German Technical Academy Acatech, Academia Europaea, Academy of Science and Literature (Mainz, Germany), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, IUPAC Fellow. Joachim Maier is Editor-in-Chief of ''

Solid State Ionics Solid-state ionics is the study of ionic-electronic mixed conductor and fully ionic conductors (solid electrolytes) and their uses. Some materials that fall into this category include inorganic crystalline and polycrystalline solids, ceramics, gla ...

'' and on the board of a number of scientific journals.

Research

Maier's major research fields comprise physical chemistry of the solid state, thermodynamics and kinetics, defect chemistry and transport in solids, ionic and mixed conductors, boundary regions and electrochemistry. In this context energy transfer and storage are to the fore. Maier developed a scientific field nowadays termed nanoionics. Nanoionics refers to questions of ion transport, stoichiometry and reactivity in confined systems and is of equal significance for chemistry, physics and biology. In these fields Maier has authored/coauthored more than 800 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Maier, Joachim 1955 births Living people 20th-century German chemists Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 21st-century German chemists Solid state chemists German computational chemists Max Planck Institute directors Saarland University alumni Academic staff of the University of Tübingen People from Neunkirchen, Saarland Members of German Academy of Science and Engineering Acatech