Stefan Hecht#
| Membership Number: | 5360 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.hechtlab.de |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6124-0222 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-hecht-210713191/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 Einstein Professor of Organic Chemistry and Functional Materials, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- 2022 Founding Director, Center for the Science of Materials Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- 2019 - 2022 Scientific Director, DWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Aachen, Germany
- 2019 - 2022 Full Professor, Chair for Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- 2006 - 2019 Full Professor, Chair for Organic Chemistry and Functional Materials, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- 2005 - 2006 Research Group Leader, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim a. d. Ruhr, Germany
- 2001 - 2004 Junior Research Group Leader, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
- 1997 - 2001 Graduate Studies, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.
- 1995 - 1996 Diplom Thesis Research, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.
- 1992 - 1997 Undergraduate Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Photochemistry, electrochemistry, spectroelectrochemistry
- Photochromism (light-controlled and light-driven processes, materials and devices)
- Reactions in confinement, in particular on-surface polymerizations
- Macromolecular and supramolecular chemistry, organic synthesis
- Molecular nanoscience and materials chemistry
- Physical (organic) chemistry, surface science
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Einstein Professorship by the Einstein Foundation Berlin
- 2021 Member of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc)
- 2020 Member of the Academia Europaea (AE)
- 2020 Member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
- 2018 Visiting professorship at Nagoya University, Japan
- 2015 Visiting professorship at Weizman Institute of Science, Israel
- 2013 BASF-Lectureship, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
- 2012 Starting Grant (Consolidator Phase) of the European Research Council ("LIGHT4FUNCTION")
- 2010 Klung-Wilhelmy-Weberbank-Prize 2010 for Chemistry, Germany
- 2010 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, U.K.
- 2007 Thieme Journal Award, Germany
- 2005 ADUC Young Investigator Award of the German Chemical Society, Germany
- 2004 Top 100 Young Innovator Award of MIT’s Technology Review, U.S.A.
- 2001 Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, Germany
- 2001 Ernst Schering Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined), Germany
- 1994 - 1997 Fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Germany
