Professor Dr. Herbert Mayr



Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Department Chemie, Organische Chemie
Butenandtstr. 5-13 (Haus F)
D-81377 München

Telefon: +49 89 2180 77719
Fax:     +49 89 2180 77717
e-mail:  Herbert.Mayr@cup.uni-muenchen.de
www:     http://www.cup.uni-muenchen.de/oc/mayr

Curriculum Vitae

Date of birth:
June 08, 1947 (Weilheim, Germany)

Married, 3 children



Education
1966-1974 Study of chemistry at the LMU München,
Graduation (Dr. rer. nat.) in Organic Chemistry under the direction of  Prof. Dr. Rolf Huisgen



Professional Career
1975-1976
Postdoctoral research associate with Prof. Dr. G. A. Olah (Nobel laureate 1994), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 
1976-1984
Research associate with Prof. P. v. R. Schleyer, Institute of Organic Chemisty at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg
1980
Habilitation in Organic Chemistry (University of  Erlangen-Nuremberg)
1984-1991
C4-Professor for Chemistry,  Medizinischen Universität zu Lübeck
1991-1996
C4-Professor for Organic Chemistry, Technische Universität Darmstadt
since 1996
C4-Professor for Organic Chemistry,  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU München)
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)



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 Lecturer, Chemistry Department, University of California, Irvine
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