Evamarie Hey-Hawkins - Biography#

Evamarie Hey-Hawkins was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Leipzig University from 1993 to 2023. After her retirement, she joined the Institute of Bioanalytical Chemistry (BBZ). She received her diploma (1982) and doctoral degree (1983) at the University of Marburg, Germany. After stays at the University of Sussex, UK (1984/85), the University of Western Australia (1985/86) and the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (1986/87), she completed her habilitation in Marburg (1988). From 1988-1990 she was a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany.

In 2013, she was awarded the degree of “Distinguished Woman in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering” by IUPAC. She is also the recipient of the Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Lecture Award (2015) and the Costin Nenitzescu-Rudolf Criegee Lecture Award (2016). In 2016, the Romanian Chemical Society (SChR) honoured her with the Costin Neniţescu Medal. She received three honorary doctoral degrees, was awarded the Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony, Germany (2017), the Leipzig University Medal (2018), the Leipzig Science Award (2019) and the prestigious Karl Ziegler Prize (2021) and is a member of two European Academy of Sciences (EurASc and EASA).

She acts as a reviewer for several national and international research foundations and serves on several editorial and international scientific advisory boards. From 2007 to 2017, she has been the Speaker and from 2018 to 2021 she was the Vice-Speaker of the Graduate School “Building with Molecules and Nano-objects” (BuildMoNa). From 2008 to 2013, she has been the Chair of the EU-COST Action CM0802 “European Phosphorus Sciences Network” (PhoSciNet), and from 2013 to 2018, she has chaired the EU-COST Action on “Smart Inorganic Polymers” (CM1302, SIPs).

She is a member of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) since 1983 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) since 1999 among other memberships. Her scientific interests are in the field of organophosphorus chemistry, biologically active boron compounds, heterometallic transition metal complexes and catalysis. More than 100 doctoral students have graduated from her group. She has authored more than 600 publications in refereed journals.

She is currently the head of the IUPAC/German Central Committee for Chemistry, Vice President of the German Society on Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (DGBNCT) and project leader at the Department of Chemistry at Babeș Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.