Jan-Erling Bäckvall#
| Membership Number: | 2377 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2006 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1997 Professor of Organic Chemistry at Stockholm University
- 1986 Professor of Organic Chemistry at Uppsala University
- 1975 Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Fields of Scholarship
- Dynamic Kinetic Resolution
- Organo- Metallic Transformation
- Biomimetic Oxidation
- Directed Evolution
Honours and Awards
- 1986 Arrhenius medal
- 1996 The Sandoz Lectureship Award
- 1997 Senior Individual Grant Award to Outstanding Senior Scientists
- 2001 Grant Award for Excellent Research Environments from the Swedish Research Council (VR)
- 2002 Celsius Medal in Gold
- 2003 The “Björkén Prize” (Björkénska priset)
- 2003 Grant Award for Excellent Research Environments from the Swedish Research Council (VR)
- 2005 Ulla and Stig Holmquist's Prize in Organic Chemistry
- 2006 Herbert C. Brown Lecturer at Purdue University, Indiana, USA
- 2008 Organic Syntheses Lectureship Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne, USA
- 2008 Jeremiah P. Freeman Organic Synthesis Lectureship, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
- 2009 Groningen Stereochemistry Lecturer, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- 2010 ERC-Advanced Grant
- Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- Member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry
