Curriculum Vitae - Prof. Dr. Matthias Beller
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 - 1991 | Liebig scholarship of Verband der Chemischen Industrie |
1997 | Otto-Roelen-Medaille (Dechema) |
1999 - 2007 | 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" |
Member of the convent for Technical Sciences of the Union of the German Science Academies (acatech) | |
| 2002 - 2007 | Board member of German Catalysis Society „Connecat“ |
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-Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
Innovation Award (Hansestadt Rostock, Germany) | |
Verdienstorden am Bande der Bundesrepublik Deutschland | |
| Visiting Professor at the University of Sassari (Italy) | |
| 2006 - 2014 | 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" |
| 2008 - 2014 | Member of the Board of the "German Catalysis Society", "GECATS" |
| November 2009 | Visiting Professor at the University of Sassari (Italy) |
| 2009 - 2016 | Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of "ChemCatChem" |
| since June 2009 | Member of the Board of the "European Technology Platform SusChem" |
| since Oct. 2009 | Member of the "Deutsche Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Leopoldina" |
| March 2010 | Paul Rylander Award of the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society (USA) |
| 2010 - 2017 | Member of the Board of trustees of the journal "Angewandte Chemie" |
| Oct. 2010 | “Karl Ziegler-Giulio Natta Lectureship” of the German and Italian Chemical Society |
| Otc. 2010 | European Sustainable Chemistry Award of the EuChems |
| since July 2010 | Member of "Technologie- und Innovationskreis Wirtschaft/Wissenschaft M-V" |
| Febr. 2011 | Astra Zeneca-Lecture (University of Sheffield, UK) |
| Feb.- April 2011 | American Chemical Society GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable Lecturer |
| Jan. 2011 | Visiting Lecturer of the Chemistry Research Promotion Center National Science Council Taiwan |
| Oct. 2011 | Visiting Professor at the Univesity of Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland) |
| April 2012 | Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Award of the French Academy of Sciences |
| April 2012 | BASF-Lectureship of the Sripps-Institute, La Jolla, San Diego, USA |
| Oct. 2012 | Visiting Professor at the University of Strasburg, France |
| since Nov. 2012 | Vice-President of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Society, WGL |
Since 2013 | Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of “Synthesis” |
Oct. 2013 | Evonik-China-Lectureship, China |
Jan. 2014 | JSPS-Lectureship, Japanese Ministry of Science and Education |
| Since 2014 | Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of “Organic Chemistry Frontiers” (RSC) |
| September 2014 | Emil-Fischer-Medaille |
| 2015 | Member LOEWE-Advisory Board |
| ERC Advanced Grant | |
| Fellow of ChemPubSoc Europe | |
| Honorary Doctor of the University Antwerp | |
| Member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities | |
| 2016 | Honorary Doctor of the University of Rennes 1 |
| Friedrich-Bergius-Lecture | |
| Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland) | |
| since 2016 | Member of Scientific Advisory Board of ARC CBBC |
| 2017 | Mellichamp Academic Initiative in Sustainability Lectureship (Southern California, USA) |
| Karl Ziegler Prize from the GDCh, German Chemical Society | |
| Dr. Karl Wamsler Innovation Award für Katalyse-Forschung (TU München und Chemieunternehmen Clariant) | |
| 2018 | Hassel-Lecture, University Oslo (Norway) |
| Gordon Stone Lecture, University of Bristol (UK) | |
| EAB Member SFB 1333 University of Stuttgart | |
| Highly cited Researcher 2018 | |
| 2019 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the DWI (Leibniz-Institute for interactive materials) |
