Name Prof. Dr. Frank Würthner Contact Institut für Organische ...

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