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Prof. Dr. Drs. h.c. Helmut Schwarz

(Pastel painted by Antoinette Heisig on paper, 2003)

Curriculum Vitae

Name/Nationality/Born:

Helmut Schwarz/German/August 6^th, 1943

Address:

Institut für Chemie, Sekr. C 4
Technische Universität Berlin
D-10623 Berlin, (F. R. G.)
Tel.: +49 30 314 23483
FAX: +49 30 314 21102

E-Mail:

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Degrees Held:

Diplom-Chemiker (1st class honours) 1971 (TU Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. (1st class honours) 1972 (TU Berlin)
Habilitation 1974 (TU Berlin)
Professor of Chemistry 1978 (TU Berlin)

Awards:

Award of the German Chemical Society (1978)
van't Hoff Award, Royal Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam (1980)
Otto Klung Award, Free University Berlin (1981)
Otto Bayer Award for Chemistry (1989)
Leibniz-Research Award, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1990)
Election to the Academy of Sciences Erfurt (1991)
Max-Planck Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (1991)
Elected Member of the German Academy of Science, LEOPOLDINA (1992)
Honorary Degree (Dr. phil. h.c.) Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1992)
Election to the Academy of Sciences (formerly Prussian Academy of Sciences) (1992)
J. J. Thomson Medal in Gold, International Mass Spectrometry Society (1994)
Election to the Academy of Sciences Göttingen (1997)
Election to the Academia Europaea, London (1997)
Lise Meitner-Alexander von Humboldt-Award, Israel Ministry of Sciences (1997)
Liebig Medal, German Chemical Society (1998)
Elected Foreign Honorary Member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic (1999)
Honorary Degree (Dr. sc. h.c.) Israel Institute of Technology TECHNION Haifa (2000)
Prelog Medal in Gold, ETH Zürich (2000)
F. H. Field and J. L. Franklin Award of the American Chemical Society (2001)
Fellow of the Institute for Scientific Information (2001)
Elected Member of the German Academy of Engineering (2002)
Elected Foreign Fellow of the Estonian Academy of Sciences (2002)
Otto-Hahn-Award for Chemistry and Physics, German Chemical Society and German Physical Society (2003)
Gold Medal, Technische Universität Berlin (2003)
Science Award of the German TECHNION Society (2004)
Honorary Degree (Dr. rer. nat. h.c.) Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (2006)
Erwin Schrödinger Award (SASP 2008)
Honorary Degree (Dr. phil. h.c.) Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot (2008)
Golden Comenius Medal, Comenius University Bratislava (2009)
Science Medal of Slowak Academy of Sciences (2009)

Editorial Boards:

Editor of "International Journal of Mass Spectrometry" (1983 - present)
Editor of "Chemische Berichte" (1990 - 1994)
Board Member of "Mass Spectrometry Reviews" (1990 - 2003)
Board Member of "Helvetica Chimica Acta" (1990 - 2002)
Board Member of "Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry" (2002 - )
Board Member of "Journal of the American Chemical Society" (2007 - )

Visiting Appointments:

Fellow Commoner, Churchill College Cambridge (1977 -78)
Visiting Professor, ETH Lausanne (1979)
Overseas Fellow, Churchill College Cambridge (1981)
Visiting Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1982)
Forchheimer Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1983)
Visiting Professor Israel Institute of Technology Haifa (1986)
Visiting Professor, ETH Lausanne (1988/1989)
Visiting Fellow, Australian National University Canberra (1994)
Visiting Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kyoto, Japan (1996)
Visiting Foundation Fellow of the University of Auckland, Auckland (1996)
Erwin Schrödinger Guest Professor, University of Innsbruck (1996)
Visiting Professor Ecole Normale Superieure Paris (1997)
Visting Professor Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris (1999 - 2001)
Visiting Professor Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg (2005)
Distinguished Schulich Lectureship Award of the Faculty of Chemistry at the TECHNION Haifa/Israel (2009/2010)

Services:

Dean of Faculty of Sciences, TU Berlin (1989 – 1990)
Chairman of the Advisory Board of the German National Scholarship Programme (1993 – 1999)
Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (1993 - )
Member of the Board of the Otto Bayer Stiftung (1994 - )
Vice President of the Berlin-Brandenburg (formerly Prussian) Academy of Sciences (1998 – 2003)
Member of the International Scientific Board of the J. Heyrovski Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (2001 - 2006)
Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lise-Meitner-Center for Computational Chemistry, Jerusalem/Haifa (1998 - )
Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German-Israeli Research Programme, DIP (2001 - 2007)
Vice-President of the German Research Foundation, DFG (2001 - 2007)
Scientific Member of the "Strategierat der Forschungs-Hochflussneutronenquelle der Technischen Universität München" (2003 - )
Member of the International Scientific Board of the Ruđer Bošković Institut, Zagreb (2005 - )
Scientific member of the "Institute for Advanced Study", New Zealand (2007 - )
President of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (2008 - )
Ernst Reuter Foundation for Advanced Study, Berlin (2008 - )
Trustee of Max-Planck-Institute of Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden (2009 - 2014)

Research Activities:

Bond Activation - Organometallic Chemistry - Catalysis - Beam Experiments - Physical Organic Chemistry- Theoretical Organic Chemistry
Documented in > 850 publications and > 800 invited lectures, see: