Falk Liebner

Career

• 2019 - 2022 Distinguished Professor at Aveiro University, Invited Chair of Bioeconomy and Biorefinery (part time), Department of Chemistry and Aveiro Institute of Materials (CICECO), PORTUGAL
• 2015 Associate Professor and Privatdozent at the Institute for Chemistry of Renewable Resources, Department of Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria
• 2014 Bestowal of the Venia Legendi for Biopolymer Material Chemistry (Habilitation zum Privatdozenten)
• 2014 - 2017 Elected Member-at-Large of the Executive Committee, CELL Division, American Chemical Society
• 2013 Key Researcher at the Austrian Wood KPlus - Competence Center for Wood Composites & Wood Chemistry
• 2011 - 2011 Guest professorship (2 months), Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II, France, Department of Chemistry, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand (Prof. Jean-Marie Nedelec)
• 2011 - 2015 tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria
• 2009 - 2009 Guest professorship (2 months), Kyoto University, Graduate School of Agriculture, Division of Forest and Biomaterials Science (Prof. Fumiaki Nakatsubo), Japan
• 2006 - 2010 University Assistant, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Department of Chemistry, Chair for Wood, Pulp, and Fi-ber Chemistry, Austria
• 1999 - 2006 Senior assistant and lecturer, TU Dresden, Institute of Wood and Plant Chemistry (Prof. Klaus Fischer), Tharandt, Germany
• 1994 - 1999 Senior researcher at the Brandenburg State Institute for Rehabilitation of Mining Sites (Prof. Joachim Katzur), Finsterwalde, Germany
• 1991 - 1993 University Assistant at TU Dresden, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Organosilicon Polymers (Prof. Klaus Rühlmann), head of the bioorganosilicon chemistry group
• 1988 - 1993 TU Dresden, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Organosilicon Polymers, PhD thesis (Dr. rer. nat.) Synthesis of bioactive (1H-1,2,4-triazole-1-yl-methyl) substituted organosilicon compounds and receptor (M3) selective antimuscarinic agents (Summa cum laude; with highest honors)
• 1988 - 1990 Junior researcher, Organosilicon Polymers Innovation Center at Dresden University of Technology, Silicone Research Center Radebeul, Chemiewerk Nünchritz (today Wacker Chemie AG)
• 1987 - 1988 TU Dresden, Institute of Organosilicon Polymers, Diploma Thesis in the field of Bioorganosilicon Chemistry: Synthesis and testing of the broad-spectrum fungicide Bis-(4-fluorphenyl)-methyl 1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl-methyl)silane
• 1983 - 1988 Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany, Chemistry; Specialization in Synthetic Chemistry, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Synthetic Organosilicon Chemistry, Synthetic Bioorganosilicon Chemistry

Awards

• Year: 2022 Awards: Innovation Award of Lower Austria, Category Research Institutions
• Year: 2022 Awards: Teaching Award, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
• Year: 2019 Awards: Klaus-Fischer Innovation Award 2019 (Dr. Plappert, supervision)
• Year: 2019 Awards: Energy Globe Award Lower Austria 2019, category air
• Year: 2018 Awards: Advapor Dissertation Award 2018 (Dr. Plappert, supervision)
• Year: 2018 Awards: Rudolf-Sallinger Innovation Award 2018, top ten candidate
• Year: 2012 Awards: FibrePlus Award for "Ultra-lightweight cellulosic aerogels", Austrian Paper Association
• Year: 1988 Awards: Young Investigator Award (Dresden University of Technology)