Todd B. Marder#
Membership Number: | 6737 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2024 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | https://www.chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de/inorgchem/forschungsgruppen/prof-dr-dr-h-c-todd-b-marder/prof-dr-dr-hc-todd-b-marder/ |
ORCID: | 0000-0002-9990-0169 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - 2025 Senior Professor, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
- 2012 - 2023 Professor and Chair I of Inorganic Chemistry, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, & Co-Head, Institute for Sustainable Chemistry & Catalysis with Boron, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
- 2012 - 2023 Honorary Professor of Chemistry, University of Durham
- 2007 - 2012 Member of the Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle University, England
- 2006 - 2012 Member of the Northeast England Stem Cell Institute
- 2006 - 2012 Member of the Centre for Bioactive Chemistry, University of Durham
- 2003 - 2004 Sir Derman Christopherson Foundation Fellow, University of Durham
- 2000 - 2012 Member of the Centre for Molecular and Nanoscale Electronics, University of Durham
- 2000 - 2008 Head of "Structure, Property and Function" Research Grouping, University of Durham
- 1999 - 2000 Head of "Structure, Bonding, Spectroscopy and Theory" Research Grouping, University of Durham
- 1998 - 2003 Head of Inorganic Teaching Section, University of Durham
- 1997 - 2012 Professor and Chair of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Durham, England
- 1996 - 1997 Co-Associate Director of the Waterloo Centre for Materials Technology (WATMAT)
- 1993 - 1997 Professor, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- 1989 - 1993 Associate Professor (tenured), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- 1985 - 1989 Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- 1983 - 1985 Visiting Research Scientist, E.I. DuPont DeNemours & Co. Inc., Central R&D Dept., Wilmington, Delaware, USA
- 1981 - 1983 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bristol, School of Chemistry, Bristol, England
Fields of Scholarship
- Fluoroarene-arene interactions in crystal engineering and liquid crystal phase behavior
- Organometallic Chemistry (Metal boron complexes, synthesis of model catalytic intermediates, luminescent organometallics)
- Homogeneous Catalysis (Borylations including C-H and C-X bond functionalization and addition reactions,coupling reactions)
- Conjugated organic, organoboron and organometallic materials for applications in linear and nonlinear optics, organic electronics, bioimaging, photodynamic therapy, and sensing of biomolecules
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JSPS Invitation Fellowship
- 2019 Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc)
- 2018 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- 2018 Awarded Docteur Honoris Causa, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France
- 2018 1000-Foreign Talents Award & National Chair Professorship, Chinese Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs (declined)
- 2015 Elected Member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, The Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- 1997 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (CChem, FRSC)
- 2015 Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) Organometallic Chemistry Award
- 2012 Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) Rita and John Cornforth Team Award
- 2010 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 2010 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award
- 2010 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JSPS Invitation Fellowship
- 2008 Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) Award in Main Group Element Chemistry
- 2003 Sir Derman Christopherson Foundation Fellowship, University of Durham
- 2003 Member, Society of Fellows, University of Durham
- 2003 Leverhulme Study Abroad Fellowship - The Leverhulme Trust
- 1995 Rutherford Memorial Medal for Chemistry, The Royal Society of Canada
- 1976 - 1980 University of California, Regents Intern Fellowship