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Professor Fässler conducts research in synthesis, characterization, and theoretical description of materials based on inorganic solid matter and molecular compounds. His research primarily focuses on intermetallic compounds, Zintl phases, and soluble Zintl ions, examining new types of main group element-based materials and transition molecular compounds. The material classes explored in his research hold potential in fields such as energy storage materials, energy conversion materials, solar cells, superconductors, and catalysts. He studied chemistry and mathematics at the University of Konstanz and received his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Heidelberg in 1988. After working as a research fellow at the University of Chicago, he earned his postdoctoral qualification in inorganic chemistry at ETH Zurich in 1999. Before joining TUM as a full professor, he held the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry and Solid-State Chemistry at TU Darmstadt from 2000 to 2003. Professor Fässler has also led the Advanced Materials Science elite study program and served as dean of studies between 2007 and 2010, being elected to the board of the Wöhler Association of Inorganic Chemistry of the German Society of Chemists (GDCh) and serving as chairman from 2010 to 2014.