Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Weigand
Professor for Inorganic Chemistry
University of JENA
Speaker at:
- Session 5: Green Technology Transitions: How is Technology Pushing Forward Green Energy Deployment
11:15-
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. habil. Wolfgang Weigand *July 10th, 1958
Institute for Inorganic Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Humboldtstraße 8
D-07743 Jena
Member of Jena Center for Soft Matter (JCSM), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Philosophenweg 7, 07743 Jena
Phone: +49-(0)3641-948160
Fax: +49-(0)3641-948102
wolfgang.weigand@uni-jena.de
http://www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/Institute/Institut+für+Anorganische+und+Analytische+Chemie/Prof_+W_+Weigand+.html
University Education, Scientific Degrees and Professional career since final degree
1983 Diploma in Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
1986 Dr. rer. nat., Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (“summa cum laude”)
1986/88 Postdoctoral researcher ETH Zürich/CH (Professor D. Seebach)
1994 Habilitation in Inorganic Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
1994 Oberassistent/Priv.-Doz. (Lecturer)
1997- Professor (full) of Inorganic Chemistry, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena
2001-2004 Director of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry
as of 2019 Director of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry
Prices and honors:
Fellow of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (1982-1984)
Doctoral Fellowship of the VCI-FCI (1984)
Postdoctoral Fellowship of the DFG (1986-1987)
Liebig-Fellowship of the VCI-FCI (1988-1990)
Visiting Professor at the University Vienna/Austria (1998)
Research Award for Basic Sciences of the Free State of Thuringia, Germany (2003)
Visiting Professor at the University of Nagoya/Japan (2004)
Member of the „Akademie gemeinnütziger Wissenschaften zu Erfurt“ (2007)
Medal of Honor “The University of Lodz in Service of Science and Society” (2008)
Visiting Professor at the Saitama University/Japan (2013)
Chair of the GDCh Ortsverband Jena (2008-2010)
Vertrauensdozent (Liaison Professor) of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation (2002-to date)
Liaison Professor Katholischer Akademischer Ausländerdienst KAAD (since 2017)
Chair of the 27th International Symposium on Organic Chemistry of Sulfur (2016)
Member (PI) Collaborative Research Center/Transregio 234, DFG, “CataLight” (2018-2022)
Medal Universitatis Lodziensis Amico (2020)
Research Interests:
- Coordination chemistry with chalcogen-containing ligands.
- Synthesis of metallomesogenes, ordered polymers.
- Bioinorganic/Bioorganometallic chemistry: [FeFe]-hydrogenases mimics.
- Light driven organometallic reactions: Photocatalytic HER using [FeFe]-hydrogenases
mimics
- Metal complexes for anticancer therapy.
- Prebiotic chemistry, Synthetic Cells.