Jürgen Caro

This group was the germ cell of the Department of "Functional materials" in the newly founded Institute of Applied Chemistry (ACA).

Under the directorship of Manfred Baerns, Caro was one of the deputy directors at ACA with responsibility for the research field "Reaction engineering and new materials."

In 1992 Caro completed his habilitation at Leipzig University on adsorption and catalysis in nanoporous materials and earned the title Dr. sc.

[1][2] With research projects on membranes and membrane reactors, Caro was a partner in numerous projects of the European Community Research in the 7th Framework Program such as CARENA, NASA-OTM, NEXT-GTL, and M4CO2, as well as co-founder of the Network of Excellence NoE INSIDE PORES, the later European Nanoporous Materials Institute of Excellence (ENMIX).

Caro was and is host of several Chinese Humboldt-Research-Fellows (Haihui Wang, Yanshuo Li, Yi Liu, Yanying Wei, Hongwei Fan) and PostDocs (Aisheng Huang).

Caro supervised several Chinese PhD students (Heqing Jiang, Zhengwen Cao, Nanyi Wang, Fangyi Liang).

Since 2018 Caro is full distinguished professor at the South China University of Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, in Guangzhou (Canton).