Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Todd B. Marder, FRSC
Institut für Anorganische Chemie
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg
tel. +49 (0) 931/31-85514
fax +49 (0) 931/31-84622
University Education | |
| 1976 | B.Sc. Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA (with Professor A. Davison, FRS) |
| 1981 | Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (with Professor M.F. Hawthorne) |
Employment | |
| 1981-1983 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bristol, School of Chemistry, Bristol, England (with Professor F.G.A. Stone, FRS, CBE) |
| 1983-1985 | Visiting Research Scientist, E.I. DuPont DeNemours & Co. Inc., Central Research and Development Department, Wilmington, Delaware, USA |
| 1985-1989 | Assistant Professor |
| 1989-1993 | Associate Professor (tenured) |
| 1993-1997 | Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Member of the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry |
| 1996-1997 | Co-Associate Director of the Waterloo Centre for Materials Technology (WATMAT) |
| 1997-2012 | Professor and Chair of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Durham, England |
| 1998-2003 | Head of Inorganic Teaching Section, University of Durham |
| 1999-2000 | Head of "Structure, Bonding, Spectroscopy and Theory" Research Grouping, University of Durham |
| 2000-2008 | Head of "Structure, Property and Function" Research Grouping, University of Durham |
| 2000-2012 | Member of the Centre for Molecular and Nanoscale Electronics, University of Durham |
| 2003-2004 | Sir Derman Christopherson Foundation Fellow, University of Durham |
| 2006-2012 | Member of the Centre for Bioactive Chemistry, University of Durham |
| 2006-2012 | Member of the North East England Stem Cell Institute |
| 2007-2012 | Member of the Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle University, England |
| 2012-2017 | Honorary Professor of Chemistry, University of Durham |
| 2012-2023 | Professor and Chair I of Inorganic Chemistry, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry & Co-Head, Institute for Sustainable Chemistry & Catalysis with Boron Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany Member of the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry Member of the State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis Member of the Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Research Center for Complex Materials Systems |
| 2023-2025 | Senior Professor, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry & |
Visiting and Honorary Professorships and Visiting Fellowships | |
| 1993 | Invited Professor, Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination Organique, Université de Rennes I, France (June-July) |
| 1995 | Visiting Senior Research Fellow, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England (April-May) |
| 1996 | Faculty of Science Visiting Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, England |
| 1997 | Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England (1 March-30 September) |
| 1997-2000 | Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Canada |
| 2003 | Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong (3 March – 2 April) Leverhulme Study Abroad Fellow |
| 2004 | Leverhulme Study Abroad Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong (4 February – 2 March) |
| 2006-2021 | Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
| 2007-2012 | Honorary Professor, Newcastle University, North-East England Stem Cell Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences (1 January 2007 – 31 December 2012) |
| 2009 | Visiting Professor, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (October 2009) |
| 2010 | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JSPS Invitation Fellow (April 2010) |
| 2012-2020 | Honorary Professor of Chemistry, University of Durham |
since 2012 2013-2015 2013-2026 2014 | Visiting Professor, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China Jiangnan Distinguished Professor, Jiangnan University, China Guest Professor, Shandong University, China David Craig Visiting Professor, Research School of Chemistry, |
2016 since 2019 | Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (October) Consultant Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China |
Other Visiting Positions Held (Selected) | |
| 1987 | Visiting Researcher, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University, England (May) |
| 1988 | Visiting Researcher, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University, England (August-September) |
| 1991 | Visiting Researcher, Department of Chemistry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England (April) |
| 1992 | Visiting Researcher (NSERC/Royal Society UK Bilateral Exchange Grantee), Department of Chemistry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England (April-June) |
| 1996 | Visiting Researcher (NSERC/Royal Society UK Bilateral Exchange Grantee), School of Chemistry, University of Bristol; Department of Chemistry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; and Department of Materials and the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University, England (May-June) |
| 2004 | Visiting Researcher (RSC Journals Grant Awardee), University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii (April) |
| 2005 | Visiting Researcher, Université de Rennes I, France (May) Royal Society-CNRS Joint Project Grant |
| 2006 Visiting Researcher, Peking University, Beijing, China and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong (March-April) Royal Society Outgoing Short Visit | |
| 2006 | Visiting Researcher, Université de Rennes I, France (July and November) Royal Society-CNRS Joint Project Grant |
Major Fellowships, Honors and Awards
- Invited Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JSPS (2022-2023)
- Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) (June 2019)
- Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (November 2018)
- Awarded Docteur Honoris Causa, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France (April 2018)
- 1000-Foreign Talents Award for Foreign Experts, Selected by the Recruitment Program of 1000-Talents of
the Chinese Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs, and offered “National Chair Professorship” at Tongji
University under “Recruitment program of Global Experts” (April 2018) - declined - Member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (The Bavarian Academy of Sciences) (since 2015)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (CChem, FRSC) (since 1997)
- Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) Organometallic Chemistry Award (2015)
- Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) Rita and John Cornforth Team Award (2012)
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2010)
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award (2010)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JSPS Invitation Fellowship (2010)
- Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) Award in Main Group Element Chemistry (2008)
- Sir Derman Christopherson Foundation Fellowship, University of Durham (2003-4)
- Member, Society of Fellows, University of Durham (since 2003)
- Leverhulme Study Abroad Fellowship - The Leverhulme Trust (2003-4)
- Rutherford Memorial Medal for Chemistry, The Royal Society of Canada (1995)
- University of California, Regents Intern Fellowship (1976-1980)
- New York State Regents Fellowship (1972) - declined
Membership in Professional Organisations:
- Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (The Germany Chemical Society – GDCh)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (CChem, FRSC)
- American Chemical Society (Inorganic and Organic Divisions)
- The Chemical Institute of Canada (Canadian Society for Chemistry)
- Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc)
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
- New York Academy of Sciences
- British Liquid Crystal Society
- British Crystallographic Association
Publications: 402;
Patents: 7 applied (2 granted thus far);
Web of Science 10.09.2021: h-Index 90;
Citations: 26,601 (non-self citations 23,402), 76 papers with 100 or more citations each, 14 papers with 75 or more citations, 156 papers with 50 or more citations each.
Google Scholar: h-Index 94; 29,034 citations.
Over 420 invited lectures at conferences, universities, government, and industrial research facilities worldwide.
My work has been highlighted
| • | in an Author Profile in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 2882 (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201409785), Angew. Chem. 2015, 127, 2924 (DOI: 10.1002/ange.201409785), |
| • | in a Movers & Shakers biographical article in The Catalyst Review 2017, 30, 18 (a publication for the chemical industry), |
| • | in Chemistry Views (Wiley), |
| • | many times in Synfacts and on the Organic Chemistry Portal, both of which highlight significant recent advances in organic chemistry, and |
| • | in notices of awards received in RSC News and Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., etc. |
Over 35 former co-workers hold academic positions around the world.
