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Tutorial Speaker: Ulrich Schubert

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Ulrich Schubert

Current position: full professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Institute of Materials Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology. Diploma in Chemistry at TU München (1972); PhD in organometallic chemistry, TU München (1974) with E.O. Fischer; postdoctoral fellowship of DFG, Stanford University (1975-76) with W.S. Johnson (synthetic organic chemistry); Habilitation at TU München (1980), structural chemistry of metal complexes. Professor of Inorganic Chemistry (C3) at University of Würzburg (1982-1994); Fraunhofer Institute of Silicate Research in Würzburg (1989-1994); appointment to TU Wien (1994). Professorships at TU Graz and Queen’s University of Belfast rejected (2000). Visiting professorships in Nottingham, Padova, Vilnius and Strasbourg.

Full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. President of the Austrian Chemical Society (GÖCh) (2001-2004). Member of the Executive Board of the Austrian Science Funds (since 2005) and the Senate of the Christian Doppler research society (since 2004). Chairman of the Austrian National Adhering Committee of IUPAC (since 2002). Member of editorial boards of several scientific journals. Ca. 470 scientific publications, 10 patents and patent applications, 10 books (author or editor).

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