Prof. Stefan Hecht, Ph.D.

Scientific Career

since 2019	Scientific Director and Member of the Scientific Board Leibniz-Institute for Interactive Materials (DWI)
since 2019	Chair for Macromolecular Chemistry RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry
2006 - 2019	Full professor and Chair for Organic Chemistry and Functional Materials Department of Chemistry & IRIS Adlershof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2005 - 2006	Research group leader in Organic Polymer and Materials Chemistry Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim/Ruhr (Lecturer at University of Dortmund)
2001 - 2004	Junior research group leader in Organic Polymer and Materials Chemistry Freie Universität Berlin (Habilitation in 2006)
1997 - 2001	Doctoral studies at the University of California at Berkeley (graduated with Ph.D. in Organic Polymer Chemistry in 2001)
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