Herbert Roesky - Curriculum vitae#

Prof. Roesky teaching at the University for children in Göttingen

• 1961 Diplom Thesis: "Construction of a Thermo-Balance"
• 1963 Ph. D. Thesis: "Fluorination Reactions under High Pressure"
• 1965 Postdoc with DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware, USA: "Aluminum and Coordination Chemistry"
• 1967 Habilitation Thesis "Chemistry of Substituted Phosphates"
• 1970 Universitätsdozent
• 1971 - 1980 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
• 1973 - 1976 Director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the J.-W.-G. Universität, Frankfurt am Main
• 1980 - 2003 Director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• 1985 - 1987 Dean of the Fachbereich Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• 2003 Professor Emeritus

• 1960 Wöhler - Award
• 1970 Dozenten - Award of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
• 1985 Centenary Lecturer, Royal Society of Chemistry
• 1985 Award of the Minister of Sciences in France
• 1986 French Alexander-von-Humboldt-Award
• 1987 Leibniz-Award
• 1990 Alfred-Stock-Memorial Award
• 1994 Manfred and Wolfgang Flad Award
• 1995 Literature Award of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
• 1997 Carus Medal of Leopoldina
• 1998 Carus Award of the City of Schweinfurt
• 1998 Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie
• 1999 ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry
• 1998 Wilkinson Prize
• 2004 Rao Award of the Chemical Research Society of India
• 2004 ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry
• 2004/2005 Wittig-Grignard-Award, France
• 2009 Prix International Henri Moissan

• 1983 Member of the Academy of Sciences Göttingen
• 1984 Visiting Professor at the University of Auburn, USA
• 1986 Member of the Academy of Scientists "Leopoldina" in Halle/Saale
• 1987 Visiting Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
• 1987 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at Vienna
• 1990 Georg-Ernst-Stahl-Medal
• 1990 Dr. Sc. (hon.) Nankai-University, Tienjin, China
• 1990 West Coast Lecturer, USA
• 1991 Member of the Senate of the Academy of Scientists "Leopoldina"
• 1992 Dr. rer. nat. h.c. University Bielefeld
• 1992 Visiting Professor at Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan
• 1994 Dr. sc. chem. h.c. Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
• 1995 Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, USA
• 1995 George and Pauline Watt Centennial Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, USA
• 1995 Frontier Lecturer, A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA
• 1995 Dr. h.c. University of Bucharest, Romania
• 1996 Honorary Fellow of the National Indian Academy
• 1997 Member of the Academia Europaea
• 1997 Honorary Member of the Materials Research Society of India
• 1999 Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• 1999 Corresponding Member of the Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
• 2000 Dr. h.c. Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
• 2001 Honorary member of the Chemical Research Society of India
• 2002 Associé étranger de l'Académie des Sciences, France
• 2002 Member to the European Academy of Sciences, Brussels
• 2003 President of the Academy of Sciences, University of Göttingen
• 2003 Member of the Leibniz-Sozietät, Berlin
• 2004 Member of the Senate of "Leopoldina"
• 2004 Associate Fellow of TWAS (Third World Academy of Sciences), an institution of the UNO)
• 2004 Member of the Selection Committee of TWAS
• 2004 Honorary Professor of Southern University, Changsha, China
• 2004 Member of the European Academy of Science and Arts, Austria
• 2004 Member of ICMGC Council Wroclaw, Poland
• 2004 Adjunct Professor of Northern Illinois University, deKalb, USA
• 2004 Corresponding Member of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 2005 Doctor honoris causa, University of Columbia, Missouri, USA
• 2005 Honorary Professor, University of Beijing, China
• 2005 Doctor honoris causa, Université Bordeaux, France
• 2006 Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Bombay, India
• 2007 East-Chem Lectureship, Great Britain
• 2007 Nenitzescu-Criegge Lecturer, Romania
• 2007 Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy, Romania
• 2009 Adjunct Professor of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

• 1973 - 1984 Referee for Inorganic Chemistry,Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
• 1976 - 1980 Trustee of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie in Frankfurt am Main
• 1982 - 1997 Trustee of the "Fonds der Chemischen Industrie" in Göttingen
• 1989 - 1995 Member of the Board of the "Engere Kuratorium des Fonds der Chemischen Industrie"
• 1975 President of the local section Frankfurt of the GDCh (German Chemical Society)
• 1982 - 1987 President of the branch "Chemical Education" of the GDCh
• 1988 - 1995 Member of the Executive Board of the GDCh
• 1986 - 1991 Member of the Scientific Board of the "Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte"
• 1988 - 1990 President of the Section Chemistry of the "Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte"
• 1987 - 1990 Member of the Scientific Board of Deutsches Museum in München
• 1989 - Present Member of the Scientific Board of "Chemisches Institut Dr. Flad" in Stuttgart
• 1987 - 1995 Member of the Scientific Board of "Chem Inform"
• 1990 - Present Member of the Board of the Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
• 1991 – 1993 President of ADUC
• 1992 President of the European Selection Committee of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• 1995 Vice President of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
• 1996 President of the Wöhler-Vereinigung of Inorganic Chemistry
• 2002 - 2008 President of the Akademie der Wissenschaften, Göttingen
• 2008 Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry

• Inorganic Syntheses
• Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon
• Journal of Fluorine Chemistry
• European Journal of Solid State and Inorganic Chemistry
• Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie
• Akademie Journal
• Bulletin de la Société Chimique de France
• Heterocyclic Communications
• International Council on Main Group Chemistry
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal Chemical Society
• Dalton Transactions
• Main Group Chemistry
• Polyhedron
• European Chemistry Chronicle
• Inorganic Chemistry
• Georgia Augusta, Universitätsbund Göttingen
• Science and Society, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Organometallics
• Main Group Metal Chemistry