Group Leader

Prof. Dr. Milan Kivala

ResearcherID: D-2855-2012

Institute of Organic Chemistry

Centre for Advanced Materials
Im Neuenheimer Feld 225
69120 Heidelberg
Room 02.104

Phone: +49 (0) 6221 54 19823
Fax: +49 (0) 6221 54 4205

Email: milan.kivala@oci.uni-heidelberg.de

Curriculum Vitae

Milan Kivala was born in Rakovník, Czech Republic. He received his M.Sc. degree in 2003 from the Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague. In 2008 he completed his Ph.D. studies under the supervision of Prof. François Diederich at ETH Zurich and after a short postdoctoral stay at the same institution, he joined in 2009 the group of Prof. Klaus Müllen at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. In 2011 he moved to the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg where he completed his Habilitation on the synthesis and study of molecular fragments of heteroatom-doped carbon allotropes under the mentorship of Prof. Rik R. Tykwinski in 2016. In 2017 he has been appointed interim Chair at the same institution.

In October 2018 he resumed his current position as a W3-Professor for Organic Chemistry at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. His research program focuses on functional π-electron systems and materials science to create unprecedented molecular entities that assemble into functional devices. The focal point of his research, is of course, organic synthesis providing the opportunity to fabricate novel molecular architectures from carefully designed precursor molecules.

Experience

• since 2018
  Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
  W3 Professorship
• 2017 – 2018
  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  Lehrstuhlvertretung / Interim Professorship (W3)
• 2013 – 2016 
  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  Habilitation with Prof. Dr. Rik Tykwinski
• 2011 – 2013     
  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  Junior group leader
• 2009 – 2011  
  Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
  Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen
• 2008 – 2009  
  ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Dr. François Diederich
• 2001 – 2002  
  Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden
  Visiting researcher with Prof. Dr. Krister Holmberg

Education

• 2004 – 2008  
  ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  Ph.D. with Prof. Dr. François Diederich

• 2003                
  Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
  Diploma thesis with Prof. Dr. František Liška

• 1998 – 2003  
  Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
  Undergraduate studies in chemistry