Franz Geiger is currently the Dow Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, where he leads major research collaborations that involve experiments and computations to study the special role that surfaces and interfaces play in the world. He is a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). He is the recipient of the 2017 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation and the 2016 Faculty Diversity Award from Northwestern University’s Graduate School. He serves as Senior Editor at the Journal of Physical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (ACS), as chair of the Experimental Physical Chemistry (EXP) subdivision of the ACS Physical Chemistry Division, on the Science Board of the Telluride Science Research Center (TSRC), on the International Advisory Board of the Pacific Conference on Spectroscopy and Dynamics, (PCSD), and on the Chemical Sciences Roundtable of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
Geiger joined the chemistry faculty of Northwestern University in 2001. He is a native of Berlin, Germany, where he received his Vordiplom in chemistry at the Technische Universitaet in 1993. He earned his PhD in 1998 at Georgetown University working with Janice Hicks as a NASA Fellow in Earth Systems Science, and was a NOAA Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Global Change with Mario Molina at MIT. He was the Ralph Grim Mineralogy Lecturer at the University of Illinois, the “Interdisciplinary Problems in Chemistry and Physics” Lecturer at the University of Maryland, and a Baker Lecturer at Cornell University.
