Bernt Krebs#
Membership Number: | 2042 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2000 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | http://www.uni-muenster.de/Chemie.ac/krebs/welcome.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 Professor Emeritus, University of Münster
- 1981 - 2010 Visiting Professorships at: State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA; Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark; National University of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina; University of Strasbourg, France; Nagoya University, Japan
- 1980 - 1981 Dean, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Münster
- 1977 - 2004 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Münster
- 1973 - 1977 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Bielefeld
- 1971 - 1973 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Kiel
- 1969 - 1971 University Lecturer, University of Göttingen
- 1969 Habilitation Thesis, University of Göttingen “Crystal Chemistry of Transition Metal Oxygen Compounds”
Fields of Scholarship
- Inorganic chemistry and bioinorganic chemistry
- Coordination chemistry of transition metals
- Functional models of metalloproteins
- Structural chemistry (inorganic and organic compounds, metalloproteins)
- Solid state chemistry of oxides, chalcogenides and halides
- Structural methods (X-ray and neutron diffraction, EXAFS)
Honours and Awards
- 1992 Max Planck Research Award together with Prof. Jan Reedijk (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
- 1996 Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz
- 1996 Member of the Académie Européenne des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres, Paris
- 1997 Wilhelm Klemm Award (German Chemical Society)
- 1997 Member of the Academy of Sciences New York
- 1999 Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, German Academy of Sciences
- 2000 Member of the Academia Europaea, London
- 2001 Egon Wiberg Award Lecture, University of München
- 2004 Corresponding Member of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 2006 Honorary Doctorate Dr. rer. nat. h. c., University of Mainz