Arne Thomas

Arne Thomas is a chemist and head of the Functional Materials group at the Technischen Universität Berlin. He studied chemistry in Giessen, Marburg and Edinburgh and then worked at the MPI of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam/Golm, Germany and at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Since 2009 is a professor for functional materials at the TU Berlin. He is interested in nanostructured and especially nanoporous inorganic and organic materials and their various applications. Since 2019, he has been the spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence Unifying Systems in Catalysis – UniSysCat, in which more than 60 working groups in the Berlin/Potsdam region are working on new sustainable catalysis concepts. 

Arne Thomas was a Falling Walls Winner in the Physical Sciences category in 2023.