Armido Studer#
| Membership Number: | 5701 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uni-muenster.de/Chemie.oc/studer/index.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1706-513X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1996 - 2000 Oberassistent and independent researcher in the laboratory of organic chemistry at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland
- 2000 - 2004 Associate professor of organic chemistry (C3) at the Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
- 2004 - 2009 Full professor (C4) of organic chemistry at the Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster, Germany
- Since 2009 Full professor (W3) of organic chemistry at the Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Persistent radica effect (PRE)
- Stereoselective radical aryl migration reactions
- Modern organic free radical chemistry
- Homolytic aromatic substitution
- Oxidative C-C and C-X bond formations by using organic single electron oxidants
- Use of nitroxides in synthesis
- Electron catalysis
- Oxidative Carbene catalysis using tempo
- Nitroxide mediated radical polymerization (NMP)
- Base promoted homolytic aromatic substitution (BHAS)
- On-surface chemistry
- N-radical chemistry
Honours and Awards
- 2026 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 2025 Adolf-von-Baeyer-Denkmünze of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)
- 2024 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2024 Tarrant Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Organic Chemistry, University of Florida
- 2024 Paracelsus Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society
- 2024 Arthur C. Cope Late Career Scholars Award of the American Chemical Society
- 2024 Elected member of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2019 - 2022 Highly Cited Researcher (HCR, Clarivate Analytics)
- Since 2021 Spokesman DFG-funded IRTG 2678 “Functional p-systems”
- 2021 Elected member of the Academia Europaea (AE)
- 2021 Guest Professorship at the University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
- 2020 Elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences “Leopoldina”
- 2020 Highly Cited Researcher (HCR) (also HCR in 2017 and 2019)
- 2019 Pedler-Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2019 Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2018 Elected member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
- 2018 Jiaxi Lu Overseas Guest Professor in Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, China
- 2016 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2014 Research Award of the WWU Münster
- 2014 IOCF Yoshida Lectureship, Kyoto
- 2010 Spokesman SFB 858 “Synergistic Effects in Chemistry”
- 2010 Scientific Guest at CNR in Bologna, Italy
- 2009 Guest Professorship at the University of Bordeaux, France
- 2008 Guest Professorship at Pierre et Marie Curie University of Paris, France
- 2008 RSC / GE Healthcare Lecture, Cardiff, UK
- 2007 Solvias Ligand Contest Award
- 2006 Novartis Young Investigator Award
- 2005 Steinhofer Lecturer, University of Freiburg, Germany





