Rhett Kempe PhD

Rhett Kempe was born in Dresden in 1964. He studied chemistry at the University of Leipzig including research stays in Jena and Stuttgart, received his PhD degree under the supervision of J. Sieler in1992 and worked as a postdoc with R. R. Schrock at MIT and with C. Krüger at the “Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung” in Mülheim. After these postdoctoral stays, he started his independent carrier in the Max-Planck Group “Complex Catalysis” led by U. Rosenthal at the “Institut für Organische Katalyseforschung. The habilitation thesis was defended in 1998. He worked as a group leader and lecturer for two years at the IfOK in Rostock and then moved as a visiting lecturer to the University of Melbourne. He became a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oldenburg in 2001 and was appointed to a Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Bayreuth in 2002.