Herbert Waldmann
Direktor, Chemische Biologie
Vita
Education
1976 – 1985
Studied Chemistry at the University of Mainz, Germany.
Received a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1985 under the guidance of Prof. H. Kunz
1985 – 1986
Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. George Whitesides at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
1986 – 1991
Habilitation at the University of Mainz. Obtained tenure in 1991
Current Positions
1999 – now
Director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology,
Department of Chemical Biology, Dortmund, Germany
1999 – now
Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the TU Dortmund University, Germany.
2005 – now
Head of the Chemical Genomics Centre of the Max Planck Society, Dortmund, Germany
Previous Positions
1991 – 1993
Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Bonn, Germany
1993 – 1999
Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
2005 to date
Head of the Chemical Genomics Centre of the Max Planck Society, Dortmund, Germany
2007 – 2008
Managing Director of the Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (“caesar”), Bonn, Germany
2014
Honorary Doctorate (Dr. h. c.) bestowed by Leiden University, NL
Awards and Recognitions
1982
Adolf-Todt-Award
1986
Friedrich Weygand Award for the Advancement of Peptide Chemistry
1986
Award of the Johannes-Gutenberg-University of Mainz
1991
Habilitanden-Preis of the ADUC
1992
Carl Duisberg Award of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
1992
Dozenten-Price of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
1997
Steinhofer Award of the Steinhofer Foundation, University of Freiburg
2001
Otto-Bayer-Award
2003
Max-Bergmann Medal
2004
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle/Saale
2004
F. C. Donders Professorship, Utrecht, Netherlands
2004
President of the Bürgenstock Conference
2005
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2006
Glaxo SmithKline-Award for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Chemical Biology
2009
NRW Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
2009
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz
2010
Hans-Herloff Inhoffen-Medaille 2010
2011
Wilhelm-Manchot Research Professor- and Lectureship, TU Munich
2011
ERC Advanced Investigator Grant of the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)
2012
Emil Fischer Medal of the GDCh (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker)
2012
Visiting Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, USA
2013 - 2016
Visiting Scientist at RIKEN, Japan
2014
Honorary Doctorate (Dr. h. c.) bestowed by Leiden University, NL
2015 - 2017
Cheney Professor, University of Leeds, UK
2016
Nauta Professor, VU Amsterdam
2017
Paul Karrer Medal, Universität Zürich
2018
Gold Badge of the International Scientific Partnership Foundation
2018
Yamada-Koga-Prize, University of Tokyo, Japan
2018
Werner-Heisenberg-Medaille, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
2019
Paul Ehrlich Prize, French Medicinal Chemistry Society
2020
Liebig-Denkmünze of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
2020
Josef Rudinger Memorial Award, European Peptide Society
2021
Richard-Willstätter-Preis für Chemische Biologie, DECHEMA, DPhG, GBM und GDCh
2022
Nauta Pharmacochemistry Award for Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology, the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry - EFMC
Lectureships
Lectureships:
1) Eli Lilly Biocatalysis Lectureship, USA 1995
2) 3ème Cycle Lecturer, Schweiz 1996
3) Steinhofer Lectureship 1997 (Freiburg)
4) Merck Sharpe & Dohme Distinguished Lecturer, UK 1998
5) Zeneca Lectureship, UK 1999
6) Van de Kerk Lectureship, University of Utrecht, 2002
7) Amgen Lecturer, USA 2003
8) LEO Pharma Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, Denmark, 2005
9) ORGANON Lectureship, Glasgow, 2005
10) R. Raphael Lectureship, Glasgow, 2005
11) Roessler Lectures, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA, 2006
12) Musgrave Lectureship, Department of Chemistry, University of Durham, GB 2006
13) Bridget Ogilvie Lecture, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, GB, 2006
14) Melvin Calvin Lecture, UC Berkeley, USA, 2007
15) Cedric Hassall Lecture, Gregynog, GB, 2007
16) Solvay Pharmaceutical Lecture, Utrecht University, NL, 2007
17) The Evonik Lecture, University of Bristol, UK, 2008
18) IICT Hyderabad Foundation Day Lecture, India, 2008
19) Felix Serratosa Lecture, CSIC Barcelona, Spain, 2009
20) Wang Yu Memorial Lecture, SIOC, Shanghai, China, 2009
21) Merck-Frosst Lecture, Univ. of Alberta, Canada, 2009-2010
22) Eli Lilly Lecture, University of Illinois, USA, 2010
23) 35th Mellanby Memorial Lecture, CDRI, Lucknow, India, 2010
24) Merck Serono Lectureship, University of Nottingham, 2011
25) Chambers Lectureship, University of Rochester, USA, 2013
26) City University Distinguished Lecture, Hong Kong, China, 2013
27) Morningside Lecture in Chemical Biology, University of Hong Kong, China, 2013
28) H.C. Brown Lectures, Purdue University, USA, 2013
29) Novartis Lectureship, 2013
30) Novartis Chemical Sciences Lectureship, Harvard University, USA, 2015
31) Mendel Lecture, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 2015
32) Lilly Lecture, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, 2016
33) Robert Robinson Lecturer, University of Oxford, 2018
34) Xing Da Lecture, Peking University, 2019
35) Novartis Chemical Sciences Lecturer, Scripps Florida, 2020
36) Goodman Lecture, Portland, 2022