Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schubert
Diploma in Chemistry at TU München (1972). PhD in organometallic chemistry, TU München (1974) with E.O. Fischer. Postdoctoral fellowship, Stanford University (1975-76) with W.S. Johnson (synthetic organic chemistry). Habilitation at TU München (1980), structural chemistry of metal complexes. Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Würzburg (1982-1994) and Fraunhofer Institute of Silicate Research in Würzburg (1989-1994). Full professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Institute of Materials Chemistry, TU Wien (1994-2014). Professorships at TU Graz and Queen’s University of Belfast rejected (2000). Visiting professorships in Nottingham, Padova, Vilnius, Strasbourg and Salzburg. Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Recipient of the Wacker Silicon Award (2009) and the Loschmidt Medal, Austrian Chemical Society (2013). Honorary member of the Israel Chemical Society. President of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS) (2011-2014). President of the Austrian Chemical Society (GÖCh) (2001-2004). Member of the Executive Board of the Austrian Science Funds (2005-2014), Panel PE5 of ERC AdG (2008-2015), Senate of the Christian Doppler Research Society (2004-2016) and Expert Panel of the German Excellence Strategy (since 2016). Chairman of the Austrian National Adhering Committee of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC, since 2002).
