Andreas Türler

Education and Careers

• 1985: qualified chem., University of Bern
• 1989: PhD, Dr. phil. nat., University of Bern
• 1989: Postdoc at Paul Scherrer Institute
• 1989-1992: Postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• 1992-2001: Staff scientist at Paul Scherrer Institute
• since 1993: Lecturer at University of Bern
• 2000: Habilitation at the University of Bern
• 2000: Visiting scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• 2001-2009: Full professor of radiochemistry at Technical University Munich
• since 2009: Full professor of radiochemistry at University of Bern and head of the Laboratory of Radiochemistry at PSI (LRC).

Research key words

Nuclear chemistry, chemistry and physics of superheavy elements, accelerator and reactor based synthesis of radionuclides for nuclear medicine, radionuclide generator systems, radioanalytical chemistry, nuclear energy and society

Publication record

• 156 peer reviewed articles, on average cited 18.37 times (2700 times total), h-index 31 (as of 1st March 2015)

Awards

• "Fritz Strassmann Prize" Society of German Chemists, Nuclear Chemistry Section GSI Exotic Nuclei Community Membership (GENCO) Award

Grants

• Acquired >5 M EUR of grants 2002-2009
• Acquired 2.2 MCHF of grants since 2010 (excluding grants of LCH group leaders)

Teaching

• Bachelor and Master Courses at University of Bern and TU Munich
• 15 trainee, bachelor or master students
• 14 PhD students completed
• External Scientific Activities
• since 2015: “Nuclear Chemistry Department” of GDCh
• 2002-2010: “Nuclear Chemistry Division” of GDCh, vice-chairman (2002-2006), chairman (2007-2010)
• since 2014: Member of the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern
• since 2011: Nuclear Forum Switzerland, member of the board
• since 2009: Federal Commission for Radiation Protection and Monitoring of Radioactivity, member (2009-2012), vice president (since 2013)
• since 2003: Advisory board "Radiochimica Acta", Oldenbourg Verlag
• since 2011: Member of the scientific council of the Oeschger Center for Climate Research (OCCR), UNIBE
• 2009-2012: General program advisory committee (GPAC), Helmholt Center for Heavy Ion Research (GSI), Darmstadt, Germany
• 2006-2012: Scientific advisory board, Helmholtzzentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Rossendorf, Germany
• 2003-2009: Advisory board, Research Reactor Munich (FRM-II)
• 2003-2009: Committee on instrumentation of FRM-II
• 2003-2009: Nuclear Physics Board of the European Physical Society