Curriculum Vitae

Education

1991
Habilitation in Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry with Prof. G. Wegner (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, MPI-P), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany

1986
Short research stay with Prof. W.J. Feast, University of Durham, U.K.

1985 – 1986
Post-doctoral fellow with Prof. K.P.C. Vollhardt, University of California, Berkeley, USA

1984 – 1985
Post-doctoral fellow, Institute for Organic Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, LMU, Germany

1984
PhD with Prof. G. Szeimies, LMU, Germany
 

Current Position

2004 – 2018
Professor of Polymer Chemistry, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Since 2018
Professor Emeritus
 

Previous Positions

1992 – 2004
Professor of Organic Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

1991 – 1992
Associate Professor of Polymer Chemistry, Technische Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

1986 – 1991
Senior Scientist and Head of 'Polymer Chemistry' Group, MPI-P, Mainz, Germany

1985 – 1986
Scientist, University of California and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, USA

1981 – 1985
Research Assistant (full position), Institute for Organic Chemistry, LMU, Munich, Germany
 

Fellowships and Awards

Supervision of Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows

1989 – 2019
Approx. 70 students received their PhD and >10 scientists completed their habilitation or equivalent qualification for becoming professor (MPI-P Mainz, Freie Universtität Berlin and ETH Zurich).

Teaching Activities

Many courses on Organic Chemistry and all courses on Polymer Chemistry offered by the respective departments ADS was affiliated with.

Organisation of Scientific Meetings

Institutional Responsibilities

2007 – 2015
Member, Research Commission, ETH Zurich

2005 – 2009
Chairman (2006 – 2008) and Deputy Chairman, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich

1997 – 2001
Executive Director, Institute of Chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin

1998 – 1999
Member, Academic Senate, Freie Universität Berlin

1994 – 1997
Chairman, Department of Chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin

Commissions of Trust

since 2001
Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Chemistry^a, Wiley, N.Y.

since 2008
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics^a and Macromolecular Rapid Communicationsa, Wiley-VCH

2014 – 2019
ChemPlusChem^a, Wiley-VCH

2016 – 2020
ChemPhotoChem^a, Wiley-VCH

2012 – 2014
Macromolecules, ACS^a and ACS Macro Letters^a

until 2007
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics^b and Macromolecular Rapid Communications^b

^aeditorial board, ^bexecutive board

The applicant has served on several national and international evaluation commissions, as vice-chairman of the Sonderforschungsbereich 'Mesoscopically structured hybrid materials', as chairman of the international MSc program 'Polymer Science' of the three Berlin Universities and the University of Potsdam, as well as on several other boards including the 'Dr. Herrmann-Schnell-Foundation' of the German Chemical Society, the Gerhardt-Schmidt-Center for 'Supramolecular Structures' of the Minerva-Foundation, Munich, at the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, the Institute for Applied Chemistry (ACA) eV, Berlin, Germany, the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research, Golm-Potsdam, Germany, the Max Planck Graduate Center Mainz, Germany, the Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular Research, Iasi, Romania and many other organisations (including the German and Swiss Chemical Societies and the Swiss Academy of Sciences).
 

Membership of Scientific Societies

2004 – 2018
Member, Swiss and German Chemical Societies
Associated Member, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich
 

Bibliometry

(based on WoS, as of December 2019)

372 Publications with > 14'000 citations corresponding to 38 citations per publication. h-Index: 62

Also, see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rnVSWz4AAAAJ&hl=decall_made