Technische Universität München

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.mult. Wolfgang A. Herrmann

President

1967 

High-School Graduation from Donau-Gymnasium Kelheim/Bavaria

1967-1970

Study of chemistry at the Technische Hochschule München, Fellow of the scholarship body of the German Catholic Episcopate (Cusanuswerk), final examination after 6 semesters ("excellent")

1970-1971

Diploma thesis supervised by Professor Ernst Otto Fischer at the Technische Hochschule München on PH3-complexes of transition metals

1973

Doctoral dissertation (Dr. rer.nat.) at the University of Regensburg supervised by Professor Henri Brunner on "Optically Active Transition Metal Complexes with Square-Pyramidal Geometry" ("excellent")

1975-1976

Research Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the laboratory of Professor P. S. Skell, Pennsylvania State University, USA

1978

Habilitation on "Organometallic Syntheses with Diazoalkanes" at the University of Regensburg

1979

Professor at the University of Regensburg, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry

1982

Chair Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Frankfurt/Main 

1985

Chair Professor at the Technische Universität München in succession of Prof. Dr. h.c.mult. E.O. Fischer

1988/ 1993

Offers for chair positions of Inorganic Chemistry at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland (not accepted)

since 1995

President of the Technische Universität München

Since 1998

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the "Deutsches Museum", Munich

2002-2004

Chairman of the "Bayerische Rektorenkonferenz" (Bavarian University Rectors Conference)

2004-2005

Founding Chairman of the "Universität Bayern e.V."

Since 2007

International Advisory Council at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Since 2008

Member of the Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)

Member of the "Zukunftsrat" (Future Council of the Bavarian Government)

1987

"Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft" (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the German Research Foundation)

1991

"Max Planck - Forschungspreis" (Max Planck Research Award)

1995

"Wilhelm Klemm-Preis der Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GdCh)" (Wilhelm Klemm Award of the German Chemical Society)

1997

"Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande" (Federal Cross of Merit)

2000

Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur of the President of France

2004

ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry

2005

"Bayerische Verfassungsmedaille" (Bavarian Order of the Constitution)

2007

"Bayerischer Verdienstorden" (Bavarian Order of Merit)

2009

University Manager of the Year 2009 (Financial Times Deutschland, Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung)

2010

"Goldene Bürgermedaille" of Freising (Golden outstanding citizen award medal)

2011

Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

1990-2009

11 Honorary Doctorates