Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Herbert Waldmann
11 June 1957 born in Neuwied, Rhein
1976-1985: Studied chemistry at the University of Mainz. Received a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1985 under the guidance of Prof. H. Kunz.
1985-1986: Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. George Whitesides at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1986-1991: Habilitation at the University of Mainz. Obtained tenure in 1991.
1991: Appointment as Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Bonn.
1993: Appointment as Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe.
1999: Appointment as Director at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology Dortmund, Department of Chemical Biology and as Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Dortmund.
2005 to date: Head of the Chemical Genomics Center of the Max Planck Gesellschaft
2007-2008: Managing Director of the Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (“caesar”), Bonn
2014:Honorary Doctorate (Dr. h. c.) bestowed by Leiden University, NL
Honours and Awards
1982: Adolf-Todt-Award.
1986:Friedrich Weygand Award for the Advancement of Peptide Chemistry.
Award of the Johannes-Gutenberg-University of Mainz.
1991:Habilitanden-Preis of the ADUC.
1992: Carl Duisberg Award of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker.
Dozenten-Price of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie.
1997: Steinhofer Award of the Steinhofer Foundation, University of Freiburg.
2001: Otto-Bayer-Award.
2003:Max-Bergmann Medal
2004:F. C. Donders Professorship, Utrecht, Netherlands
2004:President of the Bürgenstock Conference
2004: Member of „Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle/Saale“
2005: Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2006:Glaxo SmithKline-Award for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Chemical Biology
2009: Member of the NRW Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
2009: Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz
2010:Hans-Herloff Inhoffen-Medaille 2010
2011: Wilhelm-Manchot Research Professor- and Lectureship, TU Munich
2011:ERC Advanced Investigator Grant of the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)
2012: Visiting Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, USA
2012: Emil Fischer Medal of the GDCh (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker)
2013-2016:Visiting Scientist at RIKEN, Japan
2015-2017:Cheney Fellowship, University of Leeds, UK
2016:Nauta Professor, VU Amsterdam
Lectureships:
1) Eli Lilly Biocatalysis Lectureship, USA 1995
2) 3ème Cycle Lecturer, Schweiz 1996
3) Steinhofer Lectureship 1997 (Freiburg)
4) Merck Sharpe & Dohme Distinguished Lecturer, UK 1998
5) Zeneca Lectureship, UK 1999
6) Van de Kerk Lectureship, University of Utrecht, 2002
7) Amgen Lecturer, USA 2003
8) LEO Pharma Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, Denmark, 2005
9) ORGANON Lectureship, Glasgow, 2005
10) R. Raphael Lectureship, Glasgow, 2005
11) Roessler Lectures, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA, 2006
12) Musgrave Lectureship, Department of Chemistry, University of Durham, GB 2006
13) Bridget Ogilvie Lecture, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, GB, 2006
14) Melvin Calvin Lecture, UC Berkeley, USA, 2007
15) Cedric Hassall Lecture, Gregynog, GB, 2007
16) Solvay Pharmaceutical Lecture, Utrecht University, NL, 2007
17) The Evonik Lecture, University of Bristol, UK, 2008
18) IICT Hyderabad Foundation Day Lecture, India, 2008
19) Felix Serratosa Lecture, CSIC Barcelona, Spain, 2009
20) Wang Yu Memorial Lecture, SIOC, Shanghai, China, 2009
21) Merck-Frosst Lecture, Univ. of Alberta, Canada, 2009-2010
22) Eli Lilly Lecture, University of Illinois, USA, 2010
23) 35th Mellanby Memorial Lecture, CDRI, Lucknow, India, 2010
24) Merck Serono Lectureship, University of Nottingham, 2011
25) Chambers Lectureship, University of Rochester, USA, 2013
26) City University Distinguished Lecture, Hong Kong, China, 2013
27) Morningside Lecture in Chemical Biology, University of Hong Kong, China, 2013
28) H.C. Brown Lectures, Purdue University, USA, 2013
29) Novartis Lectureship, 2013
30) Novartis Chemical Sciences Lectureship, Harvard University, USA, 2015
31) Mendel Lecture, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 2015
Member of the Editorial Board of international journals
Member of the Kuratorium of “Angewandte Chemie “
Member of the Editorial Board of:
• “Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters”
• “Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry”
• “ChemBioChem”
• “Chemical Biology & Drug Design”
European Regional Editor of:
“Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry”
Chairman of the Executive Board of Editors for Tetrahedron Publications (2009-2010)
Member of the Executive Board of Editors for Tetrahedron Publications
Further professional activities:
Scientific consultant to major pharmaceutical and agrochemical companies.
Scientific consultant and Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of:
• Taros Chemicals
• HitGen Ltd, Chengdu, China
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of:
• Max-Planck Innovation GmbH (Chair)
• Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung
• Fakultät Pharmazie, Universität Marburg
• Member of the General Assembly of Lead Discovery Center GmbH
• Member of the Selection Committee for the Allocation of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Awards
• Member of the Kuratorium of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
• Member of the “Beirat des Zentrums für Biomolekulare Wirkstoffe in Hannover”
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Helmholtz Zentrum für Infektionsforschung, Braunschweig
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie, Bordeaux, France