Professor Dr. Herbert Mayr
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Department Chemie Butenandtstr. 5-13 (Haus F) 81377 München, Germany Tel.: +49 89 2180 77719 Fax: +49 89 2180 77717 e-mail: Herbert.Mayr@cup.uni-muenchen.de http://www.cup.uni-muenchen.de/oc/mayr Author Profile in Angewandte Chemie 2012 |
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| Married, 3 children | |
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| 1966-1974 | Study of chemistry at the LMU
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Graduation (Dr. rer. nat.) in Organic Chemistry under the direction of Prof. Dr. Rolf Huisgen |
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Postdoctoral research associate with Prof. Dr. G. A. Olah (Nobel laureate 1994), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
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| 1997-1998 | Chairman of the Institute of Organic Chemistry, LMU München |
| 1998-2000 | Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, LMU München |
| 2000-2003 | Head of the Organic Chemistry Division of the German Chemical Society (Liebig-Vereinigung für Organische Chemie, Fachgruppe der GDCh) |
| 2004-2012 | Chairman of the Review Board “Molecular Chemistry” of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) |
| 2007-2008 | Director of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, LMU München |
| 2011-2013 | Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, LMU München |
| Honors and Guest Professorships | |
| 1980 | Emmy-Noether-Habilitation Award of the Faculties of Science at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 1983 | Dozenten-Award of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, Frankfurt |
| 1987 | British Council Senior Fellowship Award |
| 1987 | University College, London (UK) |
| 1991 | Gunma University, Kiryu (Japan) |
| 2001 | Robert W. Taft Memorial Lecture, Chemistry Department, University of California, Irvine (USA) |
| 2002 | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Israel) |
| 2002 | Kuwait University, Safat (Kuwait) |
| 2003 | Elected Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, München |
| 2004 | A. v. Humboldt Honorary Research Fellowship of the Foundation for Polish Science |
| 2005 | “Deutschland in Japan” Lectureship Award by the Chemical Society of Japan |
| 2006 | Liebig Denkmünze of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) |
| 2006 | Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina |
| 2013 | George-A.-Olah Lecture, Loker Hydrocarbon Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USA) |
| 2013 | PKU - Eli Lilly Lectureship, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Peking University (China) |
| 2014 | Schleyer Lecture, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia (USA) |
| 2014 | Honorary Professorship Wuhan, Institute of Technology, Wuhan (China) |
| 2015 | Karrer-Givaudan lectureship, Zuerich (Switzerland) |
| 2016 | Excellent PhD Supervisor Award by the Gesellschaft Chinesischer Chemiker und Chemieingenieure in Deutschland |
| 2017 | Honorary member of the Israel Chemical Society |
| 2017 and 2018 | Guest Professorship Tsinghua University, Beijing (China) |
| 2018 | Howard Fellowship, UNSW Sydney (Australia) |
| 2019 | Organic Reactions Lecturer, Urbana - Champaign (USA) |
| 2020 | James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society |