Klaus Bock#
| Membership Number: | 4168 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | DENMARK |
| Homepage(s): | https://erc.europa.eu/organisation/bock-klaus |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - Vice President of the European Research Council (ERC)
- 2004 - 2007 Vice President, Research Director, Carlsberg A/S
- 2001 - 2004 Executive Vice President, Carlsberg A/S
- 1999 January Group Vice President for Research, Carlsberg A/S
- 1992 - 1999 Research Director, Carlsberg Research Center
- 1988 September Professor, Head of Chemistry Department, Carlsberg Laboratory, Valby, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1984 Visiting Scientist National Research Council Canada, Division of Biological Sciences, Ottawa, Canada (March)
- 1982 Visiting Scientist National Research Council Canada, Division of Biological Sciences, Ottawa,Canada (August)
- 1981 Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Visiting Scientist, Department Chemistry, University of Alberta, Canada (May - July)
- 1979, May Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
- 1979 Visiting Professor, Centre de Recherches sur le Macromolecules Vegetales, Universite de Grenoble. Invited by: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (June - July)
- 1977 Sep. Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Invited by DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)
- 1974-1975 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, U.B.C. Vancouver
- 1972-1988 Associate Professor (Lecturer) Department of Organic Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark
- 1970-1972 Assistant Professor, Department of Organic Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark
Fields of Scholarship
- Analytical and synthetic carbohydrate chemistry interaction with enzymes
- Proteincarbohydrate interactions
- Synthesis and structural analysis of glycopeptides
Honours and Awards
- Awards:
- 1979: Ole Roemer, Research Award
- 1986: International Carbohydrate Award in Honor of Roy L. Whistler
- 1992: Alexander von Humboldt Research Award
- 1994: Bjerrum, Brønsted, Lang Lecture, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2000: Danish Natural Science Academy, Industrial Award.
- 2006: Samuel Friedman Foundation Rescue Award, UCLA
- 2006: G.A. Hagemann, Gold Medal from DTU.
- 2009: Knighted by Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark
- Memberships:
- Danmarks Naturvidenskabelige Akademi (DNA) 1982-
- Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV) 1989-, President from 2009-2011
- The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1990-
- Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry (London), 1991-
- Foreign member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (2005-
- Academia Europaea, 2016-
- 2009 - 2011 President of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences
- From 2010 a member of the Standing Selection Committee for the Network of Centres of Excellence in Canada
