Evamarie Hey-Hawkins#
| Membership Number: | 7091 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.chemie.uni-leipzig.de/en/institut-fuer-anorganische-chemie/hey-hawkins-working-group |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4267-0603 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/evamarie-hey-hawkins-aa79b571/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2024, 01 Project Leader at Babes Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania
- Since 2023, 10 Professor emeritus at Leipzig University, Germany
- 1993, 04 - 2023, 09 Full professor (C4, Chair) of Inorganic Chemistry, Leipzig University, Germany
- 2021 Executive Director, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Leipzig University
- 2002 - 2005 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Leipzig University
- 2001 - 2002 Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Leipzig University
- 1997 - 1999 Executive Director, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Leipzig University
- 1990 - 1993 Guest researcher at the University of Karlsruhe (Heisenberg Grant)
Fields of Scholarship
- Anti-tumour agents
- Medicinal chemistry
- Bioinorganic chemistry
- Boron neutron capture therapy
- Switchable catalysts
- Homogeneous catalysis
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Doctor Honoris Causa (Dr. h. c.) by University of Toulouse, France
- 2021 Karl Ziegler Prize (GDCh)
- 2021 Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts at Salzburg
- 2019 Science Award Leipzig (Leipziger Wissenschaftspreis)
- 2018 Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2018 University Medal, Leipzig University
- 2018 ChemPubSoc Europe Fellowship
- 2017 Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony
- 2016 Fellowship of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, JSPS
- 2016 Costin Nenitzescu Medal, awarded by the Romanian Chemical Society
- 2016 Doctor Honoris Causa (Dr. h. c.) by Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
- 2016 Costin Nenitzescu-Rudolf Criegee Lecture, awarded jointly by GDCh and the Romanian Academy of Sciences
- 2015 Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Lecture (GDCh and RSEQ)
- 2014 Doctor Honoris Causa (Dr. h. c.) by Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
- 2013 IUPAC 2013 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Award
- 1999 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (CChem FRSC)
- 1990 - 1993 Heisenberg Grant, DFG, Germany
- 1984 - 1986 Liebig Grant, Verband der Chemischen Industrie, Germany




