Wolfgang A. Herrmann

Wolfgang Anton Herrmann (born 18 April 1948) is a German chemist and academic administrator. From 1995 to 2019, he was President of the Technical University of Munich.[1]

Wolfgang A. Herrmann
Herrmann in 2007
5th President of the Technical University of Munich
In office
1995–2019
Preceded byOtto Meitinger
Succeeded byThomas Hofmann
Personal details
Born (1948-04-18) April 18, 1948
Kelheim, Germany
NationalityGerman
EducationTechnical University of Munich
University of Regensburg
Known forInorganic and organometallic chemistry
Scientific career
ThesisOptically Active Transition Metal Complexes with Square‐Pyramidal Geometry (1973)
Doctoral advisorHenri Brunner

Education

Herrmann attended the Donau-Gymnasium Kelheim, where he passed the Abitur in 1967. He then studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich on a scholarship from Cusanuswerk, where he wrote his diploma thesis in 1971 under the supervision of Ernst Otto Fischer, a later Nobel Prize laureate. He received his doctorate in 1973 at the University of Regensburg. After a research fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft with Philip Skell at the Pennsylvania State University from 1975 to 1976, he habilitated at the University of Regensburg in 1978.[2]

Career

Herrmann was appointed professor at the University of Regensburg in 1979. In 1982, he transferred to the Goethe University Frankfurt. In 1985, he succeeded Ernst Otto Fischer at the Department of Chemistry of the Technical University of Munich. From 1988 to 1990, he was dean of the department.[2]

In 1995, Herrmann was elected President of the Technical University of Munich. He was reelected in 1999, 2005, 2007 and 2013.

Research

With an h-index of 103 (2020), Herrmann is one of the most highly cited German chemists, with more than 800 scientific publications and around 80 patents.

Awards

References
  1. "Curriculum Vitae". TUM Department of Chemistry. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  2. "Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr. Wolfgang A. Herrmann" (PDF). German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
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