Prof. Holger Braunschweig


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 720 publications, the majority of which appeared in first ranking journals. His discoveries have been highlighted in a wide range of outlets, including New ScientistThe Times of LondonScienceNatureNature ChemistryChemical and Engineering NewsChemistry WorldSpektrumChemie 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 ArduengoSteinhoferBruker, 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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M. Frederick Hawthorne Award in Main Group Inorganic Chemistry
ENI Award (Advanced Environmental Solutions)
"Manchot Research" Professorship, TU München
"Mond-Nyholm Award" of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Member of the Indian National Science Academy (Foreign Fellow)
"Leibniz Lecture Tour", IIT Chennai, IIT Bangalore (IN)
"JSPS Invitational Fellowship", lecture tour of Japan (JP)
"IOCF Lectureship", Kyoto University (JP)
"Reinhart Koselleck Grant" of the DFG
"Leibniz Lecture Tour of Canada", DFG and the Universities of Ottawa and Calgary (CA)
"Glenn Seaborg Lecture", University of California Berkeley (USA)
"Frontiers Lectureship", Texas A&M University (USA)
"Alfred Stock Gedächtnispreis 2016" of the GDCh
Corresponding Member of the "North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts"
 ERC Advanced Grant "multiBB"
"Main Group Award", Royal Society of Chemistry 
"Inaugural ScotCHEM Lectureship", Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, Strathclyde and St.
 Andrews (Scotland, UK) 
"Bruker Lectureship", University of Toronto (CA)
"Steinhofer Lectureship", University of Freiburg (D)
ERC Advanced Grant "BORYLENEFUN" 
Member of the "Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften" 
"Arduengo Lectureship", University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (USA) 
Member of the "Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften" 
Laureate of the "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis" (2009) 
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) 


Employment History

2017 - current

2016 - current

2012 - current
2010
2009 - current 
10/2007 - 09/2009
10/2005 - 09/2007
10/2004 - 09/2005
2002 - 2009
10/2002
10/2000
03/1998
12/1997
03/1991 - 02/1992
12/1990
Senator, University of Würzburg, Würzburg (D)
Founding Director of the Institute for Sustainable Chemistry & Catalysis with Boron, Würzburg (D)
Head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Würzburg (D)
Chair offered at the University of Erlangen (D, declined)
Appointed W3 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Würzburg (D)
Vicedean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy 
Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Vicedean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Appointed C4 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Würzburg (D)
Appointed Reader at Imperial College, London (UK)
Appointed Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London (UK)
Appointed Privatdozent at RWTH Aachen (D)
Habilitation, RWTH Aachen with Prof. P. Paetzold (D)
Postdoc with Prof. M. F. Lappert (FRS), University of Sussex, Brighton (UK) 
Dr. rer. nat., RWTH Aachen with Prof. P. Paetzold (D)