Holger Braunschweig is head and chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg, as well as managing head and founding director of our newly established research center ICB - institute of sustainable chemistry & catalysis with boron. He obtained his PhD and Habilitation with Prof. P. Paetzold (RWTH Aachen). He was post-doc with Prof. M. F. Lappert  at Sussex and held a position as Reader at Imperial College, London.

He carried out seminal work on metal boron complexes, boron heterocycles, and boron-boron multiple bonds. His work was published in over 700 publications, the majority of which appeared in first ranking journals. His discoveries have been highlighted in a wide range of outlets, including New Scientist, The Times of London, Science, Nature, Nature Chemistry, Chemical and Engineering News, Chemistry World, Spektrum, Chemie in unserer Zeit, and Angewandte Chemie.

He was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz award (2009), the RSC Main Group Chemistry Award (2014), and received the Arduengo, Steinhofer, Bruker, and ScotCHEM named visiting lectureships. He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, and the DFG advisory panel for molecular inorganic chemistry.

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