About me
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bastian J. M. Etzold 
Head of the institute
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Institute for Power-to-X-Technologies
Room: Room 3-023 (T1)
Dr.-Mack-Straße 81
90762 Fürth
Germany
Phone Number Office: Room: +49913185-65000
Email Address: bastian.etzold@fau.de
Website: https://www.ptx.tf.fau.de
Personal Details: Born 12.04.1979, married, 4 children
Curriculum Vitae
Education & Research Experience
| since 08/2024 |
Professorship for Power-to-X Technologies, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) |
| 12/2015- 07/2023 |
Professorship for Chemical Technology (permanent, W3) Chemistry Department of Technische Universität Darmstadt |
| 04/2015-11/2015 | Professorship for Catalytic Materials (permanent, W2) Chemical- and Biological Engineering Department, FAU |
| 05/2014 | Offer for a full professorship for Chemical Engineering at an excellent UK university (Russell international excellence group). |
| 01/2010-03/2015 | Juniorprofessor for Catalytic Materials (tenure track, W1) assistant professorship (Juniorprofessur), Chemical- and Biological Engineering Department, FAU |
| 01/2011-06/2011 | Drexel University, Feodor-Lynen Research Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation), Materials Science and Engineering, Philadelphia |
| 04/2008-12/2009 | Postdoctoral fellow, Cluster of Excellence “Engineering of Advanced Materials”, FAU |
| 2008 | Dipl.-Kfm. (M.Sc.) in Economics University of Hagen Thesis: “Organizational intelligence – a critical analysis“ Advisor: Prof. J. Weibler |
| 2007 | Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) in Chemical Engineering University of Bayreuth, Germany Thesis: “Epimerisation of the Menthol stereoisomers: kinetic studies for the heterogeneously catalysed menthol synthesis” (summa cum laude) Advisor: Prof. A. Jess |
| 2004 | Dipl.‐Ing. (M.Sc.) in Chemical Engineering University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Thesis: “Coating of carbon short fibres via chemical vapour deposition (CVD)“ Advisor: Prof. N. Popovska |
Fellowships, Awards and Honors
| 2023 | Awarded with a Bavarian Distinguished Professorship (Bayerische Spitzenprofessur) |
| 2022 | Visiting Professor at the University Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier (Host Prof. Serp) |
| 2016 | Awarded by the ERC with a Consolidator Grant |
| 2014 | Awarded by the Chinese-German Center for Promotion of Science (CDZ) with a scholarship to support cooperation of excellent young German scientist with Chinese colleges |
| 2012 | Awarded by an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship as a visiting lecturer for the international Master Course ‘Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion‘ (MESC) |
| 2011 | Awarded by the Griess Lecture award 2011 of the Royal Society of Chemistry East Midlands Section |
| 2011 | Awarded by the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation |
| 2010 | Awarded by a tenure track position within the Rising Star program of the cluster of excellence „Engineering of Advanced Materials“ of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 2009 | Awarded by the Travel Award of the 1st Nano Today Conference 2009 in Singapore |
| 2009 | Awarded by the ProcessNet “Fachgemeinschaft Chemische Reaktionstechnik“ with the Hanns Hofmann price |
| 2009 | Awarded by the Honda German Initiation Grant 2009 |
| 2009 | Awarded by the E.ON. Research Initiative 2008 |
Service to the Scientific Community
| 2024- 2028 |
Elected member of the DFG review board 4.21-02 Technische Chemie |
| since 2024 | Elected managing board member (Vorstand) of the German Catalysis Society (GeCatS) |
| since 2024 | Editorial Board Member of Carbon Future |
| since 2023 | Member of the selection committee for Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research scholarships |
| since 2019 | Member of the editorial board of the ASEAN Journal of Chemical Engineering |
| since 2017 | Board member of the ProcessNet section devision ‚reaction engineering‘ |
| since 2017 | Vize president of the german carbon group (Arbeitskreis Kohlenstoff) |
| 2018- 2024 |
Member of the steering group (Lenkungskreis) of the German Catalysis Society (GeCatS) |
| 2022- 2023 |
Coordinator of TU Darmstadt’s xchange-Cluster H2, which is an innovation hub for industry with 25 research groups involved |
| 2021- 2023 |
Elected Member of TU Darmstadt’s University Assembly |
| 2019- 2023 |
Vice-Dean of the Department of Chemistry, TU Darmstadt |
| 2013-2015 | Member of the council of the school of engineering (Technische Fakultät), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany |
| 2011-2013 | Founding and board member of the young chemical reaction engineering section (Nachwuchsgruppe Reaktionstechnik), ProcessNet, Germany |