Curriculum Vitae
Date
of Birth: 26 Nov. 1938
1963
Diploma Thesis, University of Göttingen
1965
Dr. rer. nat. Thesis, University of Göttingen
“Reactions
and Crystal Structure of Trithiocarbonic Acid”
1965-1966
Postdoc
Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
1969
Habilitation Thesis, University of Göttingen
“Crystal Chemistry of Transition Metal Oxygen Compounds”
1969-1971
University Lecturer, University of Göttingen
1971-1973
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Kiel
1973-1977
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Bielefeld
1977-2004
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Director of the Institute of Inorganic
Chemistry, University of Münster
1980-1981
Dean, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Münster
1981-2010
Visiting Professorships at:
StateUniversity of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
National
University of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
University
of Strasbourg, France
Nagoya
University,
Japan
Honours and Awards
1992
Max Planck Research Award (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
1996
Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz
1996
Member of the Académie Européenne des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres, Paris
1997
Wilhelm Klemm Award (German Chemical Society)
1997
Member of the Academy of Sciences New York
1999
Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, German Academy of Sciences, Halle/Saale
2000
Member of the Academia Europaea, London
2001
Egon Wiberg Award Lecture, University of München
2004
Corresponding Member of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y
Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006
Honorary Doctorate Dr. rer. nat. h. c., University of Mainz
Some Professional Activities
1979-2004
Member, Scientific Board of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, (ZIF), Bielefeld
1985-1992
Chairman, Research Program of the DFG “New Phenomena in the Chemistry of
Metallic Elements with Closed Inner Electronic States”
1985-1989
Scientific Council of the Kernforschungszentrum Jülich
1986-2010
Editorial Board Member in different peer-reviewed journals: Chemische Berichte,
Inorganic Chemistry, Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie,
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, European Journal of Inorganic and
Solid State Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications
1987-1989
Consultant to the Swedish National Board for Technical Development
1989-1993
German National Committee of the International Union of Crystallography
1992-1998
Member of Referee Board for Inorganic Chemistry, Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft
1994-2003
Chairman and Member in different EU COST Management Committees (D8, D21)
1994-2005
Selection Committees, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
1998-2004
Chairman of Referees for Inorganic Chemistry, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2001-2004
Commission on Structural Chemistry of the International Union of
Crystallography
2000-2001
Central Evaluation Committee for several Max Planck Institutes, Max Planck
Society
2001-2006
Fachbeirat Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry, Mülheim
2003-2006
Evaluation Committee, Bulgarian Ministry of Science
2008
Speaker Section Inorganic Chemistry, German Academy of Sciences
Memberships
Gesellschaft
Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)
American
Chemical Society (ACS)
Royal
Society of Chemistry as FRSC CChem (RSC)
Deutsche
Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie (DBG)
Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Kristallographie (DGK)
American
Crystallographic Association (ACA)
Gesellschaft
Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte (GDNÄ)