Prof. Dr. Holger Helten
Chair of Inorganic Chemistry I
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
& Institute for Sustainable Chemistry and Catalysis with Boron (ICB)
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg
Phone: +49 931 31 84086
E-Mail: holger.helten@uni-wuerzburg.de
Curriculum Vitae |
| Since 2025 | Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy | |
| 2023 — 2025 | Vice Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy | |
| Since 2019 | Professor (W3) & Chair of Inorganic Chemistry I, University of Würzburg, | |
| from 05/2019 - 07/2023 as Heisenberg Professor | ||
| 04/2019 | Offer for an Associate Professorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (declined) | |
| 10/2018 | Offer for a Chair and Full Professorship (W3) at the University of Wuppertal, Germany (declined) | |
| 2018 — 2019 | Heisenberg Research Group Leader, RWTH Aachen University (07/2018 — 04/2019), and University of Würzburg (05/2019 — 11/2019) | |
| 07/2018 | Habilitation, Venia Legendi in "Chemistry", RWTH Aachen University (Mentor: Prof. Dr. Jun Okuda) | |
| 2012 — 2018 | Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader, RWTH Aachen University | |
| 2010 — 2011 | Postdoctoral research with Prof. Dr. Ian Manners University of Bristol, UK | |
| 2004 — 2009 | Ph.D. in Chemistry “summa cum laude”, University of Bonn (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rainer Streubel) | |
| 08/2007—10/2007: Research visit with Prof. Dr. Anthony J. Arduengo, III University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA | ||
| 1998 — 2003 | Studies in Chemistry, University of Würzburg diploma thesis (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Bernd Engels), final grade: 1.0 | |
| 1997 | Studies in Biology, University of Würzburg |
Awards and Recognitions | |
| Heisenberg grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG) | |
| International Advisory Board, International Conference on Heteroatom Chemistry (ICHAC) | |
| Emmy Noether grant | |
| Invited article, Chemical Communications, 2023 Pioneering Investigators Collection | |
| Invited article, Dalton Transactions, New Talent: Europe (2018) | |
| Return fellowship of the DFG | |
| Postdoctoral research fellowship of the DFG, University of Bristol, UK | |
| Dr. Edmund ter-Meer-Award for the best Ph.D. thesis of the year | |
| Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA | |
| Kekulé doctoral fellowship of the “Fonds der Chemischen Industrie” (FCI) | |
| Doctoral fellowship of the SFB 624 (“Templates”) | |
| Fellowship of the Graduate Training Programme “Elektronendichte: Theorie und Experiment” | |
| Faculty Award 2002/2003 of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy of the University of Würzburg for the diploma thesis |
Editorial Work | |
| Associate Editor Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry (EIBC) |
Memberships | |
| Society of Porphyrins & Phthalocyanines (SPP) | |
| Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) | |
| Wöhler Division for Inorganic Chemistry at the GDCh | |
| AG Phosphorus Chemistry at the GDCh | |
| Division of Sustainable Chemistry at the GDCh (Fachgruppe Nachhaltige Chemie) | |
| Division of Macromolecular Chemistry at the GDCh | |
| Division of Supramolecular Chemistry at the GDCh | |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | |
| Main Group Chemistry Group at the RSC | |
| Physico-Medica | |
| Deutscher Hochschulverband | |
| Member of the Sustainability Commission of the JMU Würzburg |
