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AOCS Young Scientist Research Award
Recognizes: A young scientist who has made a signifi cant
and substantial research contribution in one of the areas
represented by the Divisions of AOCS.
Award: Plaque, $1,000 honorarium and $1,500 travel stipend.
Sponsored by: Prof. Dr. Vijai K.S. Shukla and the International
Food Science Centre A/S in Denmark.
Michael A.R. Meier, Professor, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Michael Meier studied chemistry at the
University of Regensburg (Germany)
and obtained his doctorate in 2006 from
the Eindhoven University of Technology
(The Netherlands), for which he was
awarded with the Golden Thesis Award
of the Dutch Polymer Institute. In 2006
he was appointed principal investigator of the junior research
group Renewable Raw Materials at the University of Applied
Sciences in Emden, Germany. In June 2009 he became Junior
professor for Sustainable Organic Synthesis at the University
of Potsdam, Germany. Since October 2010 he has been full
professor at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) in
Karlsruhe, Germany.
Meier’s ability to think across diff erent disciplines of chemistry,
and his broad yet thorough understanding of chemistry
help him to effi ciently guide his international team, organize
and develop his projects, and successfully execute them.
Past research included original ideas with oleochemicals
projects at the forefront of science in organic, catalytic, and
macromolecular chemistry that were communicated to
the scientifi c community. His current research focuses on a
sustainable use of plant oils and other renewable resources
for the synthesis of novel monomers, fi ne chemicals, and
polymers. His scientifi c work has been published in more
than 100 original publications and review articles. In 2010 he
was awarded the European Young Lipid Scientist Award of
European Federation for the Science and Technology of Lipids.
In 2012 he received the Outstanding Young Scientists award of
the BioEnvironmental Polymer Society (BEPS).
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Awards Plenary Session
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