Prof. Dr. Gerhard Erker     

Corrensstrasse 40
48149 Münster
phone: +49 251 83-33221
fax: +49 251 83-36503
email: erker[at]uni-muenster.de





 

*1946

Scientific Career
- Studied chemistry 1966-1970 (Universities Köln and Bochum)
- Dr. rer. nat. 1973 (Univ. Bochum, W. R. Roth)
- Postdoctoral Fellow 1974-75 (Princeton University, M. Jones, Jr.)
- Habilitation 1981 (Univ. Bochum, Organic Chemistry)
- Heisenberg-Fellow 1984-1985 (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim a. d. Ruhr)
- Professor 1985-1990 (C3, Univ. Würzburg, Organic Chemistry)
- Professor 1990-2015 (C4/W3, WWU Münster, Organic Chemistry)
- Senior Professor 2015-Feb. 2022 (WWU Münster, Organic Chemistry)
- Professor i. R. Feb. 2022-

Scientific Awards, Appointments and Professional Recognition
- Promotionspreis (Dissertation Prize) 1972
- Winnacker-Scholar 1983
- Chemistry Award of the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 1984
- Heisenberg-Fellowship 1984-85 (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim a. d.Ruhr)
- Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Award for Young University Professors 1986 (first awardee)
- Calls to the Univ. Karlsruhe (1989) and Univ. Munich (1994)
- Max-Planck-Research-Award 1993
- Otto-Bayer-Award 1995
- Elected DFG-referee (Organic Chemistry) 1995-2002
- Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker: Member of the executive board 1996-2003
- President of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker 2000-2001
- Member of the Senate of the WWU Münster 2000-2002
- "Goldener Brendel", WWU students' best chemistry teaching award 2001
- Werdelmann-Lecture, University Essen 2002
- Member of the Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 2002-2008
- Member of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste 2003-present
- Member of the Academia Europaea 2003-present
- Member of the Konvent für Technikwissenschaften der Union der deutschen Akademien acatech
  2003-present
- Concurrent Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai 2004-present
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship Award, Japan 2005
- Lee Lecture, University of Chicago, USA 2005
- Spokesperson of the first German/Japanese International Research Training Group
  (DFG/JSPS IRTG 1143)
  "Complex Functional Systems in Chemistry: Design, Development and Applications" (Münster/Nagoya)
  2005-2014
- John van Geuns Lecture, University Amsterdam, Netherlands 2006
- Paul Sabatier Lecture, LCC Toulouse, France 2007
- Member of the Hochschulrat of the WWU Münster 3/2008-3/2013
- Oppolzer Lecture, Université de Genève, Switzerland 2009
- Adolf-von-Baeyer-Denkmünze of the GDCh 2009
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara 2010-2022
- Boulder Scientific Distinguished Lecturer, Colorade State University, Fort Collins, Col., USA 2010
- Werner Heisenberg-Medaille der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung 2011
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2011-present
- Eugen und Ilse Seibold-Prize 2011
- ERC Advanced Grant 2011
- Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Award of the Real Sociedad Espanola de Quimica 2013
- Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2014
- Member of the Senate of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2015-12/2023
- Honorary Member Chemical Society of Japan 2017-present
- Frost Lecture, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada 2018
- John Osborn Lecture, Université de Strasbourg, France 2018
- Honorary Professorship, Tongji University, Shanghai, China 2018
- Spokesperson Klasse 1 Leopoldina 2020-02/2024
- Member of the European Academy of Sciences 2020-
- Ehrennadel of the NRW-Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste 2022
- Honorary doctoral degree, Nagoya University, Japan 12/2023

Guest/Visiting Professorships
- Université de Strasbourg, France; University of Toulouse, France; University of British Columbia
  Vancouver, Canada; Fukuoka University, Japan; Emory University, Atlanta, USA; University of California,
  Santa Barbara, USA; Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France; Nagoya University, Japan.

Scientific Output
- > 770 scientific publications (peer reviewed) 1973-present
- ca. 203 conference contributions (plenary and invited lectures) 1979-present
- ca. 366 lectures for scientific colloquia 1981-present
- Mentor of 141 doctoral students (141 completed dissertations, >130 Diploma and M.Sc. theses),
  ca. 70 postdocs and 2 Habilitations 1978-present