Wolfgang A. Herrmann#
| Membership Number: | 6883 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.tum.de/en/about-tum/organization/board-of-management/past-presidents/wolfgang-a-herrmann |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2019 President Emeritus of the Technische Universität Munich, Germany
- Since 2016 Professor Emeritus of the Technische Universität Munich, Germany
- 1995 - 2019 President of the Technische Universität Munich, Germany
- 1985 - 2016 Chair Professor at the Technische Universität Munich in succession of Prof. Dr. h.c.mult. E.O. Fischer, Germany
- 1982 Chair Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Frankfurt / Main, Germany
- 1979 Professor at the University of Regensburg, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Germany
- 1978 Habilitation on "Organometallic Syntheses with Diazoalkanes" at the University of Regensburg, Germany
- 1973 Doctoral dissertation (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Regensburg supervised by Professor Henri Brunner, Germany
- 1967 - 1971 Study of chemistry at the Technische Hochschule Munich, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecularly-defined catalysts
- Inorganic chemistry
- High-Oxidation-State transition-metal complexes
- Homogenous catalysis
- N-Heterocyclic carbene
- Organometallic chemistry
- C–C Coupling reactions
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Commandeur de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur of the French Republic
- Dr. Karl Wamsler Innovation Award, Clariant AG
- “Pro meritis scientiae et litterarum” awarded by the Bavarian Ministry for Science and Arts
- Christoph Mendel von Steinfels-Medal, Honorary Chair of Universität Bayern e.V.
- 2018 Graf Maximilian Montgelas Prize
- 2012 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 2012 President of the Year 2012 (German Association of University Professors and Lecturers)
- 2011 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
- 2010 Golden outstanding citizen award medal of Freising, Germany
- 2009 University Manager of the Year 2009 (Financial Times Germany, Center of University Development)
- 2007 Bavarian Order of Merit, Germany
- 2005 Bavarian Order of the Constitution, Germany
- 2004 American Chemical Society Award in Organometallic Chemistry, USA
- 2002 Member of German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
- 2000 Medal of the Legion of Honour of the President of France
- 1997 Federal Cross of Merit, Germany
- 1995 Wilhelm Klemm Award of the German Chemical Society
- 1995 Member of German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Member of Mainz Academy of Letters and Sciences
- 1991 Max Planck Research Award
- 1990 - 2019 13 Honorary Doctorates
- 1987 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the German Research Foundation
