Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Martin Jansen
Personal Data:
Date of Birth: November 5, 1944
Place of Birth: Pellworm, Germany
Married to Monika (Loh) Jansen, 3 children

Education:
Elementary: Pellworm 1951 - 1955
Secondary: Hermann Tast High School, Husum 1955 - 1964
University: University of Gießen 1966
Dissertation Title: "About Oxomanganates and Oxocobaltates of the Alkaline Metals" 1973
Habilitation: Venia legendi for Inorganic Chemistry 1978


Professional Experience:
Offer of a professorship at the University of Karlsruhe (declined) 1981
Full Professor at the University of Hannover 1981
Offer of professorships at the TH Darmstadt (declined) and the University of Bonn 1987
Full Professor at the University of Bonn 1987
Offer of a professorship at the ETH Zurich (declined) 1988
Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart since 1998
Memberships:

Scientific Societies:
• Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
• Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
• Bunsengesellschaft
• DECHEMA
• Gesellschaft deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte
• Deutsche Keramische Gesellschaft
• wiss. Mitglied der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
• Materials Research Society (USA)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Research in Earth Sciences


Committees:
• Member of the “Engeres Kuratorium des Fonds der Chemischen Industrie” 1992-1999
• Elected evaluator of the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft” 1994-1997
• Head of the „Fachausschuß für Anorganische Chemie der Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft“ 1997-2000
• Member of the „Kuratorium Angewandte Chemie“ since 2000
• Member of the “Kuratorium der Universität Bonn” since 2003
• Member of the “Minerva-Weizmann Committee" since 2005


Editorial Boards:

• Angewandte Chemie
• Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie
• European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
• Journal of Solid State Chemistry
• Solid State Sciences
• Zeitschrift für Naturforschung
• Chemistry of Materials

Honours:
• Best Dissertation 1972/73, Justus-Liebig-University 1973
• Award of the Justus-Liebig-University 1978
• “Dozentenstipendium” from the Fonds of the Chemical Industry 1979
• Otto-Bayer Award 1987
• Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Award 1989
• A. Stock-Memorial Award 1996
• Member of the „Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften“, Düsseldorf 1996
• corresponding member since 1998
• Member of the "Academia Europaea” 2000
• Member of the "Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften“ 2000
• Member of the "Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina“ 2000
• Honorary Member of the Materials Research Society of India 2002
• C. N. R. Rao Award Lecture 2003
• Egon-Wiberg Lecture 2004
• Wissenschaftspreis des Stifterverbandes der Deutschen Wissenschaft 2004
• Honorary Doctorate of the Ludwig Maximilian-University of Munich 2004
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry 2005
• Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) 2006
• Wolfgang-Paul-Plakette der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 2007
• Karl-Ziegler-Award 2007
• Distinguished lecture of the Texas A&M University 2008
• Georg Wittig - Victor Grignard Award of the Societé Chimique de France 2009
• Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry 2009
• International Medal for Materials Science, Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) 2011


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