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Wolfgang Lubitz

Wolfgang Lubitz

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Chemistry
Germany
2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
99
Citations
34428
World Ranking
1344
National Ranking
102

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Wolfgang Lubitz is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in the field of energy, with a particular focus on renewable energy, sustainability, and environmental science. Their work intersects several subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, molecular biology, materials chemistry, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Their research topics cover a range of areas, notably:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms

Lubitz has published in various scientific venues, with multiple articles appearing in:

  • Applied Magnetic Resonance
  • Nature Communications
  • Chemical Science
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Annual Review of Biochemistry

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • James A. Birrell
  • Anton Savitsky
  • Edward J. Reijerse
  • Nipa Chongdar
  • Hideaki Ogata

Selected recent publications highlight key aspects of their research:

  • Current Understanding of the Mechanism of Water Oxidation in Photosystem II and Its Relation to XFEL Data, 2020, Annual Review of Biochemistry
  • Adsorption and activation of molecular oxygen over atomic copper(I/II) site on ceria, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The catalytic cycle of [FeFe] hydrogenase: A tale of two sites, 2021, Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • Water oxidation in oxygenic photosynthesis studied by magnetic resonance techniques, 2022, FEBS Letters
  • Structural insight on the mechanism of an electron-bifurcating [FeFe] hydrogenase, 2022, eLife

Best Publications

  • Hydrogen: an overview.

    Wolfgang Lubitz;William Tumas

  • Biomimetic assembly and activation of [FeFe]-hydrogenases

    Gustav Berggren;Gustav Berggren;Gustav Berggren;A. Adamska;C. Lambertz;T. R. Simmons

  • Electronic structure of the oxygen-evolving complex in photosystem II prior to O-O bond formation

    Nicholas Cox;Marius Retegan;Frank Neese;Dimitrios A. Pantazis

  • [NiFe] and [FeFe] hydrogenases studied by advanced magnetic resonance techniques.

    Wolfgang Lubitz;Eduard Reijerse;Maurice van Gastel

  • Biological water oxidation.

    Nicholas Cox;Dimitrios A. Pantazis;Frank Neese;Wolfgang Lubitz

  • Solar water-splitting into H2 and O2: design principles of photosystem II and hydrogenases

    Wolfgang Lubitz;Edward J. Reijerse;Johannes Messinger

  • (14)N HYSCORE investigation of the H-cluster of [FeFe] hydrogenase: evidence for a nitrogen in the dithiol bridge.

    Alexey Silakov;Brian Wenk;Eduard Reijerse;Wolfgang Lubitz

  • Two Interconvertible Structures that Explain the Spectroscopic Properties of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II in the S2 State†

    Dimitrios A. Pantazis;William Ames;Nicholas Cox;Wolfgang Lubitz

  • Spontaneous activation of [FeFe]-hydrogenases by an inorganic [2Fe] active site mimic

    Julian Esselborn;Camilla Lambertz;Agnieszka Adamska-Venkatesh;Trevor Simmons

  • Direct detection of a hydrogen ligand in the [NiFe] center of the regulatory H2-sensing hydrogenase from Ralstonia eutropha in its reduced state by HYSCORE and ENDOR spectroscopy.

    Marc Brecht;Maurice van Gastel;Thorsten Buhrke;Bärbel Friedrich

  • Metal oxidation states in biological water splitting

    Vera Krewald;Marius Retegan;Nicholas Cox;Johannes Messinger

  • P700: the primary electron donor of photosystem I.

    Andrew N Webber;Wolfgang Lubitz

  • Hydrogens detected by subatomic resolution protein crystallography in a [NiFe] hydrogenase

    Hideaki Ogata;Koji Nishikawa;Koji Nishikawa;Wolfgang Lubitz

  • Energy and environment policy case for a global project on artificial photosynthesis

    Thomas Faunce;Wolfgang Lubitz;Alfred W Rutherford;Douglas Robert MacFarlane

  • Electronic structure of the Mn4OxCa cluster in the S0 and S2 states of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II based on pulse 55Mn-ENDOR and EPR spectroscopy.

    Leonid V Kulik;Boris Epel;Wolfgang Lubitz;Johannes Messinger

  • Theoretical evaluation of structural models of the S2 state in the oxygen evolving complex of Photosystem II: protonation states and magnetic interactions.

    William Ames;Dimitrios A. Pantazis;Vera Krewald;Nicholas Cox

  • [NiFe] hydrogenases: A common active site for hydrogen metabolism under diverse conditions

    Hannah S. Shafaat;Olaf Rüdiger;Hideaki Ogata;Wolfgang Lubitz

  • A redox hydrogel protects hydrogenase from high-potential deactivation and oxygen damage

    Nicolas Plumeré;Olaf Rüdiger;Alaa Alsheikh Oughli;Rhodri Williams

  • Identification and Characterization of the “Super-Reduced” State of the H-Cluster in [FeFe] Hydrogenase: A New Building Block for the Catalytic Cycle?†

    Agnieszka Adamska;Alexey Silakov;Camilla Lambertz;Olaf Rüdiger

  • Detection of the Water-Binding Sites of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II Using W-Band 17O Electron–Electron Double Resonance-Detected NMR Spectroscopy

    Leonid Rapatskiy;Nicholas Cox;Anton Savitsky;William M. Ames

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Neese
Frank Neese Max Planck Society
Friedhelm Lendzian
Friedhelm Lendzian Technical University of Berlin
Robert Bittl
Robert Bittl Freie Universität Berlin
Johannes Messinger
Johannes Messinger Umeå University
Dimitrios A. Pantazis
Dimitrios A. Pantazis Max Planck Society
Thomas Happe
Thomas Happe Ruhr University Bochum
Stephen P. Cramer
Stephen P. Cramer Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Thomas B. Rauchfuss
Thomas B. Rauchfuss University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wolfgang Schuhmann
Wolfgang Schuhmann Ruhr University Bochum
Marc Fontecave
Marc Fontecave Collège de France

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