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Acknowledgements<br />

Acknowledgements<br />

This thesis and I received a lot of support during the last three years and I therefore owe many<br />

people sincere thanks. Jan‐Dierk Grunwaldt “lured” me to Denmark making this thesis possible and<br />

initiated a big step forward in my life. He supported me constantly though without dictating my<br />

work. I always had the very productive feeling that he was more of an experienced collaborator than<br />

my boss. This allowed me to develop my independence as a researcher and to fully feel responsible<br />

for this thesis with all the flaws it certainly contains though being greatly minimized by his swift<br />

proof‐reading. Many thanks! I would like to thank Anker D. Jensen who took over as my principal<br />

supervisor after Jan‐Dierk left for Karlsruhe. He helped me a lot with his engineering point of view<br />

and I appreciated his constant interest in my work. I would furthermore like to thank both Anker and<br />

Jan‐Dierk for the very important support during the writing of my research proposal. I would like to<br />

acknowledge Georgios M. Kontogeorgis for supervising me during the phase behavior study making<br />

this interesting study actually possible. I owe thanks to Alfons Baiker for allowing me to work in his<br />

group at the ETH where I certainly learned a lot. Kim Dam‐Johansen supported me in coming to<br />

Denmark and created a fruitful working environment in his department which is very much<br />

appreciated. Teaching can be cumbersome but also rewarding. I profited especially from courses<br />

taught by Kenny Ståhl, Ingmar Persson, Peter Glarborg, Jan‐Dierk Grunwaldt, Anders Riisager and<br />

Rasmus Fehrmann. Furthermore thanks to Martin Muhler, Konrad Herbst and Anders Riisager for<br />

taking over the time‐consuming task of evaluating a Ph.D. thesis.<br />

A Ph.D. study is expensive and therefore I would like to thank Haldor Topsoe A/S, DTU, MP2T<br />

and FTP for their financial support and also the European Community (within the FP‐6 Infrastructure<br />

Action “Integrating Activity on Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser Science”) and DANSCATT for<br />

granting financial help during the XAS trips. I am grateful for the possibility to measure XAS at the<br />

Swiss Light Source in Switzerland, the Angströmquelle Karlsruhe, the Hamburger<br />

Synchrotronstrahlungslabor at DESY (both Germany) and the MAX‐lab in Sweden and of course I<br />

would like acknowledge the beamline scientists for providing professional support during the<br />

measurements.<br />

Collaborating with other researchers made my work output far more efficient and so I would<br />

like to thank (in alphabetical order) Jens Enevold Thaulov Andersen (for providing ICP‐MS equipment<br />

and support during the measurements), Thomas W. Hansen (for measuring TEM), Bertram Kimmerle<br />

(for synthesis of FMF, very fruitful discussions and introducing me to equipment at ETH), Reinhard<br />

Kissner (for measuring and evaluating EPR data), Wolfgang Kleist (for discussion and coordination of<br />

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