Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry and Scientific Director of the DWI - Leibniz Institute
Address
Forckenbeckstraße 50
52074 Aachen
Prof. Stefan Hecht, Ph.D.
Scientific Career
since 2019 |
Scientific Director and Member of the Scientific Board |
since 2019 |
Chair for Macromolecular Chemistry |
2006 - 2019 |
Full professor and Chair for Organic Chemistry and Functional Materials |
2005 - 2006 |
Research group leader in Organic Polymer and Materials Chemistry |
2001 - 2004 |
Junior research group leader in Organic Polymer and Materials Chemistry |
1997 - 2001 |
Doctoral studies at the University of California at Berkeley |
1992 - 1997 |
Chemistry studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the University of California at Berkeley (graduated with Chemie-Diplom in 1997) |
Honors and Distinctions
- BASF Lectureship by the Department of Chemistry at UC Berkeley (2013)
- Starting Grant (Consolidator Phase) of the European Research Council (2012)
- Klung-Wilhelmy-Weberbank Prize in Chemistry (2010)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2010)
- ADUC Young Investigator Award of the German Chemical Society (2005)
- Top 100 Young Innovator Award of MIT’s Technology Review (2004)
- Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2001)
- Ernst Schering Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined, 2001)
- Fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (1994-1997)
- Jugend Forscht Young Chemist Award (federal & environmental prize, state winner 1993)
- Jugend Forscht Young Chemist Award (state winner 1991)
Professional Functions
Current:
- Cofounder of start-up company Xolo (2019)
- Associate Editor of The Journal of Organic Chemistry (since 2018)
- Editorial Board of ChemSystemsChem (since 2018)
- Editorial Board of Advanced Science (since 2014)
- Executive Board of Humboldt-Universitäts-Gesellschaft (since 2014)
Past:
- Commission for the investigation of scientific irregularities at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2014 – 2019)
- Academic Senate of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2014 – 2017)
- Interim-Dean of the newly merged Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2014 – 2015)
- Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences I at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2012 – 2014)
- Standing Advisory Committee of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2012 – 2015)
- Task Force & Forum Excellence of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2011 – 2012)
- Academic Council of Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (2010 – 2019)
- Editorial Board of Polymer Chemistry (2010 – 2012)
- Founding Member of the Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences (IRIS) Adlershof (2009)
- Vice Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences I at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2008 – 2012)
- Mentor of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (2007 – 2019)
Scientific Affiliations
- Member of the American Chemical Society
- Member of the German Chemical Society
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Member of the European Photochemistry Association
- Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Association for Polymer Research