Reiner Salzer is a German chemist and university teacher of Analytical Chemistry at the TU Dresden. Salzer studied chemistry from 1962 in Leipzig with a diploma in 1967. After his doctorate with Gerhard Geiseler 1971 on the intensity of infrared spectral bands he was a post-doc at the University of Ljubljana with Dušan Hadži. Salzer habilitated in 1979 in Leipzig. In 1990 he was appointed Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at TU Dresden and Head of the Institute of Analytical Chemistry from 1991 – 2007. Salzer employed various spectroscopic techniques for his investigations. His main research interests include molecular monitoring for early detection of diseases as well as analytical applications of biological active polymers such as artificial or natural ion channels. 1990/91 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Oslo, later on he moved for research stays to Canada and to the USA. 2009 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Gadjah Mada University of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Salzer is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science in Oslo.
2000 – 2007 — Member of the Review Board Natural Sciences of the German Research Council
2002 – 2009 — Member / Chairman of the Selection Committee of the Fresenius Prize of the GDCh
2002 – 2010 — Member of the "Bologna Commission" of the GDCh
since 2003 — Head of the Study Group Education of DAC/EuCheMS
since 2006 — Member/Vice-Chair/Chair of the ECTN Label Committee for the labels Chemistry Eurobachelor®, Chemistry Euromaster® and Chemistry Doctorate Eurolabel®
since 2008 — Member / Head of the Jury of the Robert Kellner Lecture of DAC/EuCheMS
2013 — Ioannes Marcus Marci Medal of the Czech Spectroscopic Society Ioannes Marcus Marci
2015 — Tribute of the Division Analytical Chemistry of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences
Publications (selection)
R. Salzer, H. W. Siesler: Infrared and Raman spectroscopic imaging, 2. edition, Wiley-VCH 2014,
D.T. Burns, R.K. Müller, R. Salzer, G. Werner: Important Figures of Analytical Chemistry from Germany in Brief Biographies - From the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, Springer, Heidelberg, 2014,
R. Salzer: Biomedical imaging: principles and applications, Wiley-VCH 2012,
R. Salzer, H. Kriegsmann, G. Werner: Progress in molecular spectroscopy, Teubner, Leipzig, 1988,
