Jean-Marie Lehn- Curriculum vitae#

• Laboratoire de Chimie Supramoléculaire ISIS, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
• Laboratoire de Chimie des Interactions Moléculaires,Collège de France, Paris
• Director at the Nanotechnologie Institute of the Research Center of Karlsruhe, since 1998

• Undergraduate Studies, University of Strasbourg: Licence ès-Sciences (Bachelor of Sciences), Strasbourg, 1960
• Graduate work on "Conformational Studies of Triperpenes"; with Professor Guy Ourisson, University of Strasbourg
• Doctorat-ès-Sciences (Ph.D.), University of Strasbourg, 1963
• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University, 1964: work on vitamin B12 total synthesis with Professor Robert B. Woodward

• Member of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 1960-66
• Maître de Conférences (Assistant Professor) at the University of Strasbourg, 1966-69
• Professeur sans chaire (Associate Professor) at the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg, 1970
• Professor of Chemistry at the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg, 1970-1979
• Professor at Collège de France, Paris, since October 23rd 1979; Chair of Chimie des Interactions Moléculaires
• Visiting Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, 1972 (Spring), 1974 (Spring), and on a part time basis until 1980
• Visiting Professor of Chemistry at the E.T.H. Zürich, 1977
• Alexander Todd Visiting Professor of Chemistry, Cambridge University, 1984
• Visiting Professor, University of Barcelona, 1985
• Rolf-Sammet Gastprofessor, Frankfurt University, 1985-86
• Heinrich-Hertz Gastprofessor, Karlsruhe University, Nov., Dec. 1989
• Robert Burns Woodward Visiting Professor, Harvard University, 1997, 2000
• Newton Abraham Professor, Lincoln College, Oxford University, 1999-2000
• Adjunct Professor at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, 2005

• Honoris Causa Doctorates
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1984
• Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, 1985
• Georg-August University of Göttingen, 1987
• Université Libre of Bruxelles, 1987
• Iraklion University, 1989
• Università degli Studi di Bologna, 1989
• Charles University of Prague, 1990
• University of Sheffield, 1991
• University of Twente, 1991
• University of Athens 1992
• Polytechnical University of Athens, 1992
• Illinois Wesleyan University, 1995
• Université de Montréal, 1995
• University of Bielefeld, 1998
• Honorary Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 1998
• Honorary Professor, Southeast University, Nanjing, 1998
• Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot; 1998
• Faculté des Sciences Appliquées, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1999
• Nagoya University, 2000
• Université de Sherbrooke, 2000
• Università di Trieste, 2001
• Honorary Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2003
• Honorary Professor, Nanjing University, 2003
• Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2003
• University of St. Andrews, 2004
• Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, 2005
• Technical University, St Petersburg, 2005
• Mazaryk University, Brno, 2005
• Honorary Professor, Beijing University, 2005
• Kyushu University, 2005

• Bronze Medal of the CNRS, 1963
• Adrian Prize of the Société Chimique de France, 1968
• Silver Medal of the CNRS, 1972
• Raymond Berr Prize of the Société Chimique de France, 1978
• Gold Medal of the Académie Pontificale des Sciences, 1981
• Gold Medal of the CNRS, 1981
• Pierre Bruylants Medal, Louvain, 1981
• Paracelsus Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society, 1982
• Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis, 1983
• Prize of the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique awarded by the Académie des Sciences, 1984
• Rolf-Sammet Prize, Frankfurt University, 1985
• Prize of the Fondation Alsace, 1986
• George Kenner Prize, University of Liverpool, 1987
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1987
• Sigillum Magnum, University of Bologna, 1988
• Minnie Rosen Award, 1989
• Vermeil Medal of the Ville de Paris, 1989
• Gold Medal of the Société d'Encouragement au Progrès, 1989
• Karl-Ziegler Prize, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, 1989
• Grand Bretzel d’Or, Institut des Arts et Traditions Populaires d’Alsace, 1992
• Bonner Chemiepreis, 1993
• 1992 "Ettore Majorana-Erice-Science for Peace" Prize, 1994
• Gold Medal of the Société Académique Arts–Sciences–Lettres, 1995
• Gold Medal of Comenius University, Bratislava, 1995
• Golden Memorial Medal of the Faculty of Sciences, Charles University, Prague, 1995
• Honorary Medal of the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, 1996
• The Davy Medal of the Royal Society, 1997
• Lavoisier Medal 1997 of the Société Française de Chimie
• Top 75 Award, C&N, American Chemical Society, 1998
• Allan R. Day Award of the Philadelphia Organic Chemists' Club, 1998
• 1998 Messel Medal, Society of Chemical Industry, London
• Premio Barocco, 2003
• Gold Medal "Giulio Natta" of the Italian Chemical Society, 2003
• JSPS Award (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), 2003
• Gold Medal of the 70th Anniversary of the Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie, 2004
• Gold Medal of the University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, 2005

• Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 1980
• Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1980
• Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1983
• Member of the Académie des Sciences, Institut de France, 1985
• Foreign Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, 1985
• Foreign Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1985
• Honorary Member of the Union des Physiciens, 1986
• Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society, 1987
• Honorary Member of the Académie Européenne des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres, 1987
• Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (Belgium), 1987
• Honorary Fellow ot the Royal Society of Chemistry (Great-Britain), 1987
• Member of the Academia Europaea, 1988
• Member of the Académie d'Alsace, 1989
• Honorary Fellow of Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie, 1989
• Foreign Associate of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur-Mainz, 1989
• Honorary Member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, 1990
• Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften of Göttingen, 1990
• Associate Member of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, 1990
• Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, 1991
• Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 1991
• Foreign Associate of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico, 1991
• Foreign Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 1992
• Honorary Member, Institut Grand Ducal, Luxembourg, 1992
• Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 1993
• Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy, 1993
• Honorary Foreign Member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), 1995
• Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 1996
• Foreign Member of the Third World Academy of Sciences, 1996
• Honorary Member of the Czech Learned Society, 1997
• Honorary Member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, 1997
• Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences of Turin, 1999
• Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Section Science, 1999
• Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1999
• Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics, 1999
• Member of the Académie des Technologies, Institut de France, 2001
• Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2001
• Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2001
• Honorary Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Chemistry, 2001
• Member of the International Academy of Humanism, 2001
• Honorary Member of The Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ), 2002
• Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India, 2002
• Consulting Honorary Member of The World Innovation Foundation, 2003
• Corresponding Member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2003
• AAAS Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003
• Honorary Fellowship of IChemE Institution of Chemical Engineers, 2003
• President of the Academia Bibliotheca Alexandrinae, 2004
• Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2004
• Member of the Gesellschaft Österreichischer Chemiker, 2004
• Honorary Member of the Académie des Sciences Inscriptions et Belles Lettres de Toulouse, 2005
• Honorary Member of the Real Academia Sevillana de Ciencias, 2005
• Honorary Member of the Société Française de Chimie, 2005

• Chevalier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite, 1976
• de l'ordre de la Légion d'Honneur, 1983
• Officier de l'ordre de la Légion d'Honneur, 1988
• Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, 1989
• Member of the Order "Pour le Mérite" für Wissenschaften und Künste (RFA), 1990
• Officier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite, 1993
• Commandeur de l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur, 1996
• Ostereischiches Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Erste Klasse, 2001
• Grand Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit of Romania, 2004

• 790 publications;
• 3 books
• "Chemia Supramolekularna",Collection of publications by J.-M. Lehn, organised and translated into Polish under the direction of Janusz Lipkowski, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1985.
• B. Dietrich, P. Viout, J.-M. Lehn,"Aspects de la chimie des composés macrocycliques",InterEditions/Editions du CNRS, 1991.
• "Macrocyclic Chemistry – Aspects of Organic and Inorganic Supramolecular Chemistry",VCH, Weinheim, 1993.
• J.-M. Lehn,"Supramolecular Chemistry – Concepts and Perspectives",VCH, 1995.
• "La chimie supramoléculaire : Concepts et perspectives",Traduit de l’anglais par A. Pousse, De Boeck Université, Bruxelles, 1997.

• Theoretical Organic Chemistry: Ab initio conformational analysis: computation of nitrogen and phosphine inversion, of the electronic structure of hydrocarbons, of stereoelectronic effects on chemical reactivity; theoretical studies of molecular receptors and recognition processes.
• Dynamic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: Studies of conformational rate processes, internal rotation and nitrogen inversion.
• Molecular Dynamics and Liquid Structure from Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation data. Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance.
• Supramolecular Chemistry:Cryptates: Design, synthesis and properties of ligands forming stable and selective inclusion complexes with metal ions; di- and poly-nuclear cryptates; bioinorganic models; photoactive and electroactive cryptates; cluster cryptates; energy and electron transfer processes.
• Molecular Recognition, Molecular Receptors and Coreceptors: Design, synthesis and properties of macropolycyclic complexing agents binding selectively one or several molecular substrates: metalloreceptors; photoactive receptors; cyclointercalands.
• Anion Coordination Chemistry: Anion cryptates; receptors and coreceptors for anionic substrates; selective complexation of organic, inorganic and biological anions.
• Supramolecular Catalysis: Design and properties of molecular catalysts performing a reaction on bound substrate species; enzyme models; cocatalysis.
• Transport Processes: Design of selective carriers; transport of anions, cations and molecules; thermodynamic and kinetic properties; transport regulation; coupling to chemical potentials (protons, electrons) and to light.
• Selfassembly and Selforganisation: Design of systems generating given supramolecular architectures by molecular recognition directed spontaneous assembly of the components; programmed chemical systems; hydrogen bonding and coordination interactions; selforganisation of organic and inorganic entities; polymolecular assemblies.
• Supramolecular Materials: Recognition materials, supramolecular polymers, liquid crystals, vesicles, inorganic materials.
• Chemionics: Molecular Photonic, Electronic and Ionic Devices: Photoactive and electroactive cryptates; energy and electron transfer processes; light conversion; photo-antenna; ion transfer; molecular and ionic switching and amplifying processes; molecular protonics.
• Semiochemistry: Generation and processing of optical, electronic and ionic chemical signals; ion detection; ion pulses; non-linear optical properties.
• Photochemistry and Solar Energy Storage: Photochemical activation of small molecules by means of transition metal complexes; photogeneration of hydrogen and oxygen; water photolysis; photoreduction of CO2; design of photoinduced charge separation systems.
• Structural and Dynamic Studies by Multinuclear NMR on supramolecular complexes (in collaboration with the NMR Laboratory).
• Bioorganic Chemistry and Biological Applications: Models of biological receptors, of enzymes and of biological transport processes; immunological labelling agents, selective nucleic acid reagents, helical and metallo-nucleic complexes; artificial gene transfer vectors.
• Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry: Design of virtual combinatorial libraries; application to biological targets and to materials.