Bernt Krebs#


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


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