Todd B. Marder - Biography#

Following his BSc (MIT) and PhD (UCLA), he was a postdoctoral fellow at Bristol University (UK) and then a Visiting Research Scientist at DuPont Central Research (USA) before taking up a faculty position at the University of Waterloo (Canada) where he rapidly rose through the ranks to Full Professor. In 1997, he accepted the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at Durham University (UK) and, in 2012, he moved to the Universität Würzburg as Chair I of Inorganic Chemistry where he is currently a Senior Professor. He has served on the editorial boards of Organometallics, Inorg. Chem., J. Organometal. Chem., Applied Organometal. Chem., Inorg. Chim. Acta, Can. J. Chem., Crystal Eng., Chinese J. Chem. He has held visiting or similar professorships in UK, France, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, India, and China, was the 2014 David Craig Visiting Professor at Australian National University. He has published over 440 papers which have been cited over 33,800 times, >30,000 of which are non-self-citations (h-index = 101), has filed several patents, and has given over 440 invited lectures worldwide. His awards include the Rutherford Memorial Medal for Chemistry (Royal Society of Canada, 1995 - leading chemist under 40 in Canada), elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC, UK, 1997), the RSC Awards in both Main Group Element Chemistry (2008) and Organometallic Chemistry (2015), two Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JSPS Invitation Fellowships (2010, 2023), a Royal Society (UK) Wolfson Research Merit Award (2010), and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award (2010) which led to his permanent move to Würzburg in 2012. He was elected to Membership in the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften in 2015, offered a 1000-Foreign Talents Award for Foreign Experts, China (2018), awarded Docteur Honoris Causa, Université de Rennes 1, France (2018), elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2018), and Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (2019).