Herbert Waldmann
Director, Chemical Biology
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
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)
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