Helmut Schwarz#
| Membership Number: | 1768 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1997 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 Visiting Professor Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg, France
- 1999 ‐ 2001 Visiting Professor Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris, France
- 1997 Visiting Professor Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, France
- 1996 Erwin Schrödinger Guest Professor, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- 1996 Visiting Foundation Fellow of the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- 1996 Visiting Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kyoto, Japan
- 1994 Visiting Fellow, Australian National University Canberra, Australia
- 1988 - 1989 Visiting Professor, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Austria
- 1986 Visiting Professor Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel
- 1983 Forchheimer Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- 1982 Visiting Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- 1981 Overseas Fellow, Churchill College Cambridge, UK
- 1979 Visiting Professor, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Austria since
- 1978 Professor at the TU Berlin , Germany
- 1974 Habilitation at the TU Berlin, Germany, in Chemistry
- 1972 Ph. D. (Dr. rer. nat. with Prof. F. Bohlmann at TUB, Germany)
Fields of Scholarship
- Catalysis, Metal Organic Chemistry, Elementary reactions in Chemistry and Physics
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Eni Award, Category „New Frontiers of Hydrocarbons Prizes“
- 2015 Karl Ziegler‐Preis 2015 Schrödinger Medal
- 2015 Honorary Member of the Polish Chemical Society
- 2013 Honorary Doctor, Academy of Sciences, Moldova
- 2013 Honorary Doctor, Hanyang University Seoul, Korea
- 2011 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2010 Honorary Doctor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
- 2009 Distinguished Schulich Lectureship Award of the Faculty of Chemistry at the TECHNION Haifa, Israel
- 2008 Honorary Doctor, Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel
- 2008 Erwin Schrödinger Award
- 2006 Honorary Doctor, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- 2003 Otto Hahn Award for Chemistry and Physics, German Chemical Society and German Physical Society
- 2002 Foreign Fellow of the Estonian Academy of Sciences
- 2002 Member of the German Academy of Engineering acatech
- 2001 F. H. Field and J. L. Franklin Award, American Chemical Society
- 2000 Honorary Doctor, Israel Institute of Technology TECHNION Haifa, Israel
- 2000 Prelog Medal in Gold, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
- 1999 Foreign Honorary Member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic
- 1998 Liebig Medal, German Chemical Society
- 1997 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1997 Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences
- 1994 J. J. Thomson Medal in Gold, International Mass Spectrometry Society
- 1992 Member of the Berlin‐Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 1992 Honorary Doctor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- 1992 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 1991 Max‐Planck Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 1990 Leibniz Research Award, German Research Foundation (DFG)
