Introduction

Biography

Prof. Dr. Karsten Meyer studied chemistry (October 1989 – 1994) at the Ruhr-University of Bochum (Germany) and  received his Diploma in May 1995.  Starting in the summer of 1995, he performed his Ph.D. thesis work under  the direction of Professor Karl Wieghardt at the Max Planck Institute in Mülheim/Ruhr (Germany) and received  his Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat, summa cum laude) in January 1998.  With a DFG post-doctoral fellowship, Karsten  gained research experience in Professor Christopher Cummins’ laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of  Technology (1998 – 2000, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA).  In January 2001, he was appointed to the University  of California, San Diego (UCSD) faculty as an Assistant Professor and was named an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow  in 2004.  In 2006, he accepted an offer (C4/W3) to be the Chair of the Institute of Inorganic & General  Chemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany. Karsten Meyer has published 300+ articles in peer-reviewed journals, leading to an h-index of 67 and 14,500+  citations (Scopus, 09/2024).  The list of publications includes, among others, reports and articles in Science,  Nature, Nature Chem., Chem, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, and Chemical  Science.  He has given over 250 invited talks, including opening and plenary lectures, at conferences,  research, and academic institutions worldwide.

Professional Career:

Oct. 1989 Study of Chemistry at the Ruhr-University-Bochum in Germany  May 1995 Diploma (Ruhr-University-Bochum)

July 1995 PhD Studies at the Max-Planck-Institute in Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany  under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Karl Wieghardt

Jan. 1998 Dissertation (Dr. rer. nat., summa cum laude)   “Molecular and Electronic Structure of High-Valent Transition-Metal Nitrido Complexes” 

Feb. 1998 Postdoctoral Studies at the Max-Planck-Institute Mülheim/Ruhr (Germany)

Oct. 1998 Postdoctoral Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)  under the direction of Prof. Christopher C. Cummins, USA

Jan.  2001 Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), USA

Jan.  2006 University Full Professor (W3/C4) Chair of Inorganic and General Chemistry (FAU)

Rewards & Honors(Since 2011)

2011 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC, UK

2012 Visiting Professor, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, F

2015 Visiting Professor, Nagoya Institute of Technology, JP

2015 JSPS Professorship “Brain Circulation Project” Nagoya Institute of Technology, JP

2017 Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Award, Royal Society of Chemistry of Spain

2017 Ludwig-Mond Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK

2017 Chugaev Commemorative Medal, Kurnakov Institute, Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences

2018 Guest Professor, ETH Zürich, CH 2022 XingDa Lecture, Peking University, China

2022 Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry International Award, JP

2022 Horizon Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK

2023 Guest Professor, ETH Zürich, CH

2024 Earl L. Muetterties Memorial Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, USA

2025 Hutchison Memorial Distinguished Lecturer, University of Rochester, NY, USA