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 | Liebig Fellow of the FCI with Prof. PhD K. B. Sharpless at Massachussetts Institute of Technology (USA) |
Profession | |
| 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, not accepted |
| Sep. 2006 | Call for a W3-Professorship for Organic Chemistry at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, not accepted |
| Dec. 2005 - 07.05.2024 | Director of the newly founded „Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e.V.”, |
| since 08.05.2024 | Member of the LIKAT Board and Head of the department “Applied Homogeneous Catalysis” |
Awards | |
| 1990 | Liebig-Scholarship from the Chemical Industry Fund |
| 1997 | Otto Roelen-Medal of DECHEMA |
| 2002 | Merck-Frost-Lectureship (Canada) |
| 2003 | Novartis-Chemistry-Lectureship (Switzerland) |
| Degussa-Lecturer (University of Durham, UK) | |
| 2005 | Novo Nordisk-Lecturer (Denmark) |
| 2006 | Leibniz-Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
| Innovation Award of the Hanseatic City of Rostock, Germany | |
| Order of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany | |
| Visiting Professor at the University of Sassari (Italy) | |
| 2009 | Visiting Professor at the University of Sassari (Italy) |
| 2010 | Paul Rylander Award of the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society (USA) |
| 2010 | “Karl Ziegler-Giulio Natta Lectureship” of the German and Italian Chemical Society |
| 2010 | European Sustainable Chemistry Award |
| 2011 | Astra Zeneca-Lectur (University of Sheffield, UK) |
| American Chemical Society GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable Lecturer | |
| Visiting Lecturer of the Chemistry Research Promotion Center National Science Council Taiwan | |
| Visiting Professor at the University of Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland) | |
| 2012 | Gay-Lussac-Alexander-von-Humboldt-Prize |
| BASF-Lectureship (Sripps-Institute San Diego, USA) | |
| Visiting Professor at the University of Strasburg (France) | |
| 2013 | Evonik-China-Lectureship, China |
| 2014 | JSPS-Lectureship, Japanese Ministry of Science and Education |
| 2014 | Emil-Fischer-Medal |
| 2015 | Honorary Doctor of the University of Antwerp, Belgium |
| ERC Advanced Grant | |
| 2016 | Honorary Doctor of the University of Rennes 1, France |
| Friedrich-Bergius-Lecture der Evonik AG | |
| Visiting Professor at the University of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Bristol-Myers-Squibb-Lecture of the University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (USA) | |
| 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) | |
| 2018 | Hassel-Lecture, Universität Oslo (Norway) |
| Gordon Stone-Lecture. University of Bristol (UK) | |
| 2019 | Spiers Memorial Award 2019 der Royal Society of Chemistry, UK |
| 2022 | Luigi-Sacconi-Medaille 2022 of the Italian Chemical Society |
| Visiting Professor at the Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou (China) | |
| 2024 | Wilhelm-Ostwald-Medal of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Germany) |
| since 2014 Clarivate “Highly Cited Researcher” | |
| 2025 | Raney Award of the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society (ORCS) |
Professional activities | |
| 1997-2007 | Board member of the der DECHEMA Section “Catalysis” |
| since 2002 | Member of the convent for Technical Sciences of the Union of the German Science Academies (acatech) |
| 2002 - 2007 | Board of member of German Catalysis Socienty “Connecat” |
| 2002 - 2005 | Board of member of the Innovation Agency Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
| 2003 - 2005 | Board of member of the Institute for “Angewandte Chemie (ACA)” in Berlin-Adlershof |
| 2004 - 2006 | Chairman of the German catalysis association “ConNeCat” |
| 2005 - 2006 | Head of the Board of the GDCh working group “Environmental and Sustainable Synthesis and Processes” |
| 2006 - 2014 | Head of the Board of the GDCh working group “Sustainable Chemistry” |
| since 2007 | Member of the Board of the Department “Science and Technology of Life, Light and Matter” at the University of Rostock |
| since 2008 | Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg (Academy of the Sciences) |
| International Scientific Council of the TUM Catalysis Research Center | |
| International Supervisory Board “Fundamental Catalysis Research in the Netherlands” | |
| 2008 - 2014 | Member of the Board of the “German Catalysis Society” GECATS" |
| since 2009 | Member of the Board of the "European Technology Platform “SusChem” |
| Member of the “Deutschen Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Leopoldina” | |
| since 2010 | Member of the Technology and Innovation Circle for Business/Science M-V, Germany |
| since 2012 | Vice President of the Leibniz Association (Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz e.V.) |
| since 2015 | Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
| Member of the LOEWE-Program Advisory Board | |
| since 2016 | Chairman of the Scientific Adivisory Board of ARC CBBC |
| 2018 | Advisory Board Member SFB 1333 University of Stuttgart |
| 2019 - 2022 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the DWI (Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials) |
| 2019 | Honorary member of the Chinese Chemical Society (CSC) |
| 2020 - 2023 | Chairman of the Association “Wasserstoff-Energie-Cluster MV e.V.” |
| seit 2022 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of C1 Green Chemicals AG |
| Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of SwissCAT+ | |
| Member of the Scientific Advisory Board H2020 Twinning Project | |
| Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG | |
| Member of the International Advisory Board of Industrial Chemistry & Materials | |
| Member of the International Advisory Board of Project TECHSCALE (Czech Republic) | |
| since 2023 | Member of the Supervisory Board of Exceet Group SCA, from Feb. 2024 H2Apex |
Editorial activities | |
| 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 Board of “Journal of Organometallic Chemistry" |
| since 2005 | Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of “Organic Process Research & Development" |
| since 2008 | Chairman of the Editorial Board of “ChemSusChem" |
| Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of “Topics in Organometallic Chemistry" | |
| 2010 - 2017 | Member of the Board of Trustees of the Journal “Angewandte Chemie" |
| since 2013 | Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of “Synthesis" |
| since 2014 | Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of “Organic Chemistry Frontiers" (RSC) |
| 2020 | Member of the Chemistry Europe (European Chemical Societies Publishing) |
| 2023 | Member of the Synlett Adivsory Board ((Thieme Verlag) |
| Member of the Editorial Adivsory Board of CCS Chemistry | |