Curriculum Vitae - Prof. Dr. Matthias Beller
Personals |
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Marital status | Married since 1992 to Dr. Anja Fischer-Beller, two sons (Marc-Philipp, born in 2000 and Jan-Niclas, born in 2002) |
Date of birth | 11.04.1962 |
Place of birth | Gudensberg |
Academic Education | |
1982 - 1987 | Study of chemistry at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen |
1987 - 1989 | PhD thesis at the Institute for Organic Chemistry at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen (Prof. Dr. L. F. Tietze) |
29.06.1989 | Graduation with honors (Dr. rer. nat.) |
1990 | postdoctoral stay with Prof. PhD K. B. Sharpless at Massachussetts Institute of Technology (USA) |
Profession |
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1991 - 1993 | Research chemist in the Central Research at Hoechst AG |
1993 | Group leader of "Organometallic chemistry - catalysis" at the Central Research of Hoechst AG |
1994 - 1995 | Project leader of "Homogeneous catalysis" at Hoechst AG |
1996 - 1998 | Associate Professor for Inorganic chemistry at the Technical University of Munich |
June 1998 | Director of the “Leibniz-Institut für Organische Katalyse an der Universität Rostock e.V. (IfOK)” aligned with a full professorship "Catalysis" at the University of Rostock |
March 2001 | Call for a C4-Professorship for Industrial Chemistry at the RWTH Aachen |
Dec. 2005 | Director of the newly founded „Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e.V.” |
Sep. 2006 | Call for a W3-Professorship for Organic Chemistry at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen |
Awards and other Activities | |
1990 | Liebig scholarship of Verband der Chemischen Industrie |
1998 | Otto-Roelen-Medaille (Dechema) |
since 1999 | Board member of the Dechema Section "Catalysis" |
since 2001 | Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of "Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis" |
2001 - 2005 | Member of the Editorial Board of "Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical" |
since 2002 | Member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of "Journal of Organometallic Chemistry" Board member of German Catalysis Society „Connecat“ Member of the convent for Technical Sciences of the Union of the German Science Academies |
2002 - 2005 | Board member of the Innovation Agency Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
2002 | Merck-Frost-Lectureship (Canada) |
2003 - 2005 | Board member of the Institute for „Angewandte Chemie (ACA)“ in Berlin-Adlershof |
2003 | Novartis-Chemistry-Lectureship Degussa-Lecturer (University of Durham, UK) |
2004 - 2006 | Head of the Board of the German Catalysis Society „ConNeCat“ |
since 2005 | Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of "Organic Process Research & Development" |
2005 | Novo Nordisk-Lecturer (Denmark) |
2005 - 2006 | Head of the Board of the GDCH working group „Environmental and Sustainable Synthesis and Processes“ |
2006 | Leibniz-Preis (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) |
2006 | Innovation award (Hansestadt Rostock, Germany) |
2006 | Verdienstorden am Bande der Bundesrepublik Deutschland |
since Sep. 2006 | Head of the Board of the GDCH working group “Sustainable Chemistry” |
since Sep. 2007 | Member of the Board of the Department „Science and Technology of Life, Light and Matter“ at the University of Rostock |
since Jan. 2008 | Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg (Academy of the Sciences) |
since Jan. 2008 | Chairman of the Editorial Boards of „ChemSusChem“ |
since July 2008 | International Scientific Council of the TUM Catalysis Research Center |
since Aug. 2008 | Member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of "Topics in Organometallic Chemistry" |
since 2008 | Member of the Board of the "German Catalysis Society", "GECATS" |
since 2009 | Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of "ChemCatChem" |
since 2009 | Member of the Board of the "European Technology Platform SusChem" |
since 2009 | Member of the "Deutsche Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Leopoldina" |
2010 | Paul Rylander Award of the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society (USA) |
from 2010 | Member of the Board of trustees of the journal "Angewandte Chemie" |
2010 | “Karl Ziegler-Giulio Natta Lectureship” of the German and Italian Chemical Society |
2010 | European Sustainable Chemistry Award |
