Heinrich Lang is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at TU Chemnitz (TUC). He received his Diploma (1982) and PhD (1985) at University of Constance. He spent two years as postdoctoral fellow (DFG) at MIT. After his Habilitation at University of Heidelberg (1992), he was a Heisenberg fellow (DFG) and became full professor in 1996 at TUC. The call to TU Kaiserslautern (2003) was not taken. He is a member of scientific and editorial advisory boards and has published 810 peer-reviewed papers. He has been vice-president of TUC for Research and Young Scientists. His research interests are organometallics, electron transfer, and homogeneous catalysis and materials.