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<strong>Name</strong> <strong>Prof</strong>. <strong>Dr</strong>. <strong>Frank</strong> <strong>Würthner</strong><br />
<strong>Contact</strong> <strong>Institut</strong> <strong>für</strong> <strong>Organische</strong> Chemie<br />
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg<br />
Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg<br />
Germany<br />
http://www-organik.chemie.uni-<br />
wuerzburg.de/startseite/<br />
Phone: +49 931 318 5340<br />
Fax: + 49 931 318 4756<br />
wuerthner@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de<br />
Year of birth 1964<br />
Place of birth Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany<br />
Education 2001 Habilitation in Organic Chemistry, University of Ulm:<br />
Supramolecular Dye Chemistry<br />
1990-1993 <strong>Dr</strong>. rer.nat., University of Stuttgart:<br />
Synthesis and Properties of Donor-Acceptor-substituted<br />
Oligothiophenes (with <strong>Prof</strong>. F. Effenberger)<br />
1983-1990 Study of Chemistry, Universität Stuttgart<br />
Academic Career<br />
since 2002 <strong>Prof</strong>essor, Chair of Organic Chemistry II, University of<br />
Würzburg<br />
since 2006 Vice Coordinator W. C. Röntgen Research Center for<br />
Complex Material Systems, University of Würzburg<br />
2007-2009 Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the<br />
University of Würzburg<br />
2001/2002 <strong>Prof</strong>essor of Organic Chemistry (temporally limited),<br />
Technical University of Karlsruhe<br />
1997-2000 Liebig and DFG Habilitanden fellow, University of Ulm<br />
1995-1996 Chemist at BASF AG, Central Research, Ludwigshafen.<br />
Research on functional dyes<br />
1994-1995 Post-doc with <strong>Prof</strong>. J. Rebek, Jr. at the Massachusetts<br />
<strong>Institut</strong>e of Technology (MIT), Cambridge/MA (USA)<br />
Research Topics Synthetic dye chemistry<br />
Supramolecular dye chemistry<br />
Nanosystems Chemistry<br />
Functional materials for organic electronics, photonics and<br />
photovoltaics<br />
Calls<br />
2009 Director Position offered at the MPI for Solid State Research<br />
in Stuttgart (declined)<br />
2009 Chair (W3) <strong>Prof</strong>essor Position for Organic Chemistry offered<br />
at the Universität Heidelberg (declined)<br />
2008 Chair (W3) <strong>Prof</strong>essor Position for Organic Chemistry offered<br />
at the Karlsruhe <strong>Institut</strong>e of Technology (declined)<br />
2002 Chair (C4) <strong>Prof</strong>essor Position for Organic Chemistry offered<br />
at the University of Würzburg (accepted)<br />
2001 C3 <strong>Prof</strong>essor Position for Organic Chemistry offered at the<br />
University of Cologne (declined)<br />
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Honors and Awards<br />
2009<br />
2005<br />
Steinhofer Award & Lectureship (Universität Freiburg)<br />
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowshi<br />
2002 Arnold Sommerfeld Award of the Bavarian Academy of<br />
Science<br />
2000 Otto Röhm Memorial Award<br />
1999 DFG Habilitandenstipendium<br />
1997 Liebig Fellowship (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie)<br />
1995 Feodor Lynen Fellowship (Alexander von Humboldt<br />
Foundation)<br />
<strong>Name</strong>d Lectureships<br />
2006 John van Geuns Lecture at the University of Amsterdam<br />
2003 Tarrant Lectureship at the University of Florida at Gainesville<br />
Advisory Boards<br />
since 2007<br />
since 2007<br />
2009/2010<br />
since 2010<br />
Member of the Selection Committee of the Alexander-von-<br />
Humboldt Foundation (<strong>Institut</strong>ional Partnerships)<br />
Scientific Consultant in the field of Organic Electronics for<br />
BASF SE<br />
Member of the Selection Committee for International<br />
Research Groups of the Max-Planck Society<br />
Member of the Scientific Council of the Fonds der<br />
Chemischen Industrie FCI<br />
2011-2014 Member of the Evaluation Panel of the European Research<br />
Council (ERC; Panel PE 5: Materials and Synthesis)<br />
Editorial and<br />
reviewing work: 2005 Editor of the Topics in Current Chemistry Volume<br />
since 2008<br />
since 2010<br />
“Supramolecular Dye Chemistry”<br />
Editorial Advisory Board Member of the Journal of Inclusion<br />
Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry<br />
Editorial Advisory Board Member of the Journal of Organic<br />
Chemistry<br />
Visiting <strong>Prof</strong>essorships<br />
2001 Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain<br />
2005 Ritsumeikan University, Japan<br />
2010 Université d’Angers<br />
Publications, Lectures<br />
more than 200 publications, 15 granted patents and 180 lectures in the period from 1990 to<br />
2010.<br />
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