Group head

Chair of Particle-Based Materials Chemistry (PBMC)



Prof. Dr. Karl Mandel

Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Chair of Particle-Based Materials Chemistry (PBMC)

Room: Room A 2.20
Egerlandstraße 1
91058 Erlangen

Curriculum vitae

Current position

Since 04/2025Full Professor (W3, Chair)
for Particle-Based Materials Chemistry,
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany

Former positions

04/2020 – 03/2025Associate Professor (W2)
for Inorganic Chemistry,
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
03/2024 – 04/2025Vice Director
Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC Würzburg, Germany
07/2014 – 02/2024Head of Group Particle Technology
Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC Würzburg, Germany
10/2013 – 06/2014Co-group Leader Particle Technology and Interfaces
Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC Würzburg, Germany
12/2010 – 09/2013Research Associate
Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC Würzburg, Germany

11/2015 – 01/2020Habilitation in Chemistry – Materials Science
Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, JMU Würzburg, Germany
12/2010 – 09/2013PhD in Chemistry
Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, JMU Würzburg, Germany
2005 – 2010Studies in Earth Science (BSc) and Materials Science (MSc)
in Munich, Salzburg, Ulm and Oxford
2008 – 2017Research stays in Austria, UK, The Netherlands, France, Ireland

04/2025FAU internal career promotion W2 (Associate Professor) to W3 (Full Professor)
11/2023ERC Consolidator Grant (2 Mio. €, 5 years)
11/2017Appointed as Emil-Fischer-Fellow of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Würzburg (Junior-Professor equivalent)
03/2017Selected as scholar in the BMBF NanoMatFutur grant competition to establish a young investigator group: grant worth 1.8 Mio. € (5 years)
11/2016Alfred Kärcher Foundation: Funded project of the year 2016
05/2016Max-Buchner research scholarship
12/2014Deutscher Studienpreis der Körber-Stiftung Award
11/2014Hugo-Geiger-Preis (3rd prize) (Fraunhofer) Award
11/2014Rektor-Max-Meyer-Preis (University Würzburg) Award
11/2013Re-Water Braunschweig Zukunftspreis, Group Award
07/2012Selected scientist to attend the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
04/2011 – 09/2013Kekulé scholarship Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI)
03/2010 – 09/2010Scholarship of Evonik Industries
03/2010 – 09/2010Foreign exchange scholarship: Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
10/2006 – 09/2008Various scholarships of the TU Munich
02/2006 – 10/2010Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

Since 2025Appointed liaison lecturer for the German National Academic Foundation (Vertrauensdozent der Studienstiftung d. dt. Volkes)
Since 2025Elected member of the Council of the Faculty of Sciences
Since 2025Permanent member of the Steering Committee (“Kollegiale Leitung”) in the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, FAU
Since 2025Editorial Advisory Board Member of Particle & Particle Systems Characterization
Since 2025Member of the FAU Center for Functional Particle Systems
Since 2023Appointed curator & jury member for “Deutscher Studienpreis der Körber-Stiftung”
Since 2022Member of the FAU Research Cluster New Materials and Processes and the FAU Competence Unit Engineering of Advanced Materials
Since 2022Elected member of the advisory board of the Friedrich-Alexander University Union (FAU Universitätsbund)
Since 2022Scientific jury for the Hans-Riegel Fachpreis (category: chemistry) for the FAU
Since 2019Member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)
Since 2019Member of the Dt. Hochschulverband
Since 2019Member of the DECHEMA (Beirat der Fachgruppe Grenzflächenbestimmte Systeme und Prozesse)

for a detailed CV please email karl.mandel@fau.de