for a Sustainable Future

Prof. Anja-Verena Mudring’s research motto is Theory with Practice – Understanding fundamental structure-property relationships with the aim to design new materials for a sustainable future.

Prof. Anja-Verena Mudring is leading the intelligent Advanced Materials Group at the Department of Biological & Chemical Engineering at Aarhus University, Denmark, where she also is associated with the interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO). She is currently heading the SMARTER Center, a research excellence center that is focusing on  funded by Novonordisk Fonden.  She is also a Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu Natal at the School of Engineering in Pietermartizburg, South Africa and Guest Professor at the Department of Physics, Umeå University, Sweden. She has been a long-term Associate Editor for the journal  “Crystal Growth & Design” (ACS Publications). She is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief “Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews” (Taylor & Francis) and Polyhedron (Elsevier). Moreover, she is serving on the Editorial Advisory Boards of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering,

Prof. Anja-Verena Mudring studied chemistry at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität in Bonn, Germany, and carried out her doctoral thesis work at the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. 2001-2003 she worked as a Feodor-Lynen fellow at the Ames Laboratory, a US Department of Energy National Laboratory. In spring 2003 she started her independent scientific career as a Liebig fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the Universität zu Köln, Germany. After having completed her habilitation in 2006, she moved to the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, where she headed the Materials Synthesis and Characterization group and became Chair of Inorganic Chemistry III at the Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry. At RUB she also led the interdisciplinary Research Department Interfacial Systems Chemistry. During that time she established a EU-Marie Curie Training network on luminescent materials (LUMINET) and founded a COST action on ionic liquids (EXIL). In 2013 she gave up those positions and accepted the offer as the Glenn Murphy Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Iowa State University (USA), simultaneously with being  the strategic hire for the Critical Materials Institute, a US DOE Energy Innovation Hub, led by the Ames Laboratory. as elected Head of Physical Materials Chemistry at Stockholm University, Sweden, in summer 2016.

Prof. Mudring has organized a number of national and international conferences, focusing on Green Chemistry & Engineering and Critical Raw Materials. Recent examples are the Gordon Conference on Ionic Liquids, a conference series that she initiated together with her colleague on long time collaborator Prof. Dr. Robin D. Rogers, the 2019 Terrae Rarae Conference on f-elements in Stockholm (Sweden) and Helsinki (Finland) and 2017 Rare Earth Research Conference (RERC) in Ames, Iowa, USA and a Nordic conference series on Green Chemistry and Engineering (2020 in Stockholm, Sweden; 2021 & 2023 in Aarhus, Denmark). 

She has received numerous awards and fellowships such as the H.C. Starck award in solid state science from the GDCh, was a Feodor Lynen Fellow and held a Humboldt fellowship from the Polish Science Foundation (FNP), the Göran Gustafsson prize in Chemistry 2017 given out by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, the Terrae Rarae Award 2024.  Her research has been sponsored by the ERC through two grants, the European Commission, the DFG (German Science Foundation), DOE (US Department of Energy), NSF (US National Science Foundation) Vetenskapsraadet (VR, Swedish Research Council),  SSF (Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research), Energimyndigheten (the Swedish Energy Agency) as well as private foundations and industry such as the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Carl Tryggers Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation, the Carlsberg Foundation, the Villum Foundation, as well as industry. She is currently receiving support from the . Most notably,

She has authored over 320 peer-reviewed publications (h-index: 51, >9150 citations). See also Google Scholar for updates.

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