Virgil Percec#
| Membership Number: | 5494 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://web.sas.upenn.edu/percecgroup |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5926-0489 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1999 - present P. Roy Vagelos Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- 1993 - 1999 Leonard Case Jr. Professor of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
- 1989 - 1999 Director NSF - Material Research Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
- 1986 - 1993 Professor of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
- 1984 - 1985 Associate Professor of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
- 1982 - 1983 Assistant Professor of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
- 1977 - 1980 Research Associate, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Jassy, Romania
- 1977 - 1980 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Polytechnic Institute, Jassy, Romania
Fields of Scholarship
- Organic chemistry
- Supramolecular chemistry
- Polymer chemistry
- Dendrimers
- Cross coupling reactions
- Catalysis
- Biological membrane mimics
- Frank-Kasper phases
- Chiral phases
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Listed as "Global Highly Cited Researcher” by Clarivate Analytics based on Web of Science
- 2016 Listed as “One of The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds of Our Time” by Thomson Reuters
- 2016 National Science Foundation Award for Creativity in Research
- 2016 Doctor Honoris Causa, Polytechnic University, Bucharest
- 2015 Cristofor Simionescu Award for Excellence in Macromolecular Chemistry, ACS Romanian International Chapter
- 2014 Honorary Member, Romanian Society of Chemistry & “Petru Poni” Medal of the Romanian Society of Chemistry
- 2013 Honorary Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences IVA
- 2012 Humboldt Research Award for Senior US Scientists
- 2011 Kavli Foundation: Innovations in Chemistry Lecture & Award, American Chemical Society
- 2009 Honorary Member, The Israel Chemical Society
- 2008 The Herman F. Mark Medal & The Polymer Award, Austrian Research Institute for Chemistry & Technology
- 2008 The International Award and Silver Medal of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan
- 2007 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Athens, Greece
- 2007 Doctor Honoris Causa, Polytechnic University, Iasi, Romania
- 2005 Staudinger-Durrer Medal, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
- 2004 American Chemical Society, Award in Polymer Chemistry
- 2004 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2002 PTN Polymer Award from the Netherlands
- 1993 Honorary Foreign Member, The Romanian Academy
