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Curriculum Vitae

Studies

Oct. 1975 - March 1981, chemistry at Saarland University, Saarbrücken - 10 semesters

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Diploma

March 1981, Saarbrücken

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Diploma Thesis

Title: "Valence Isomerization and Ring Inversion of Cyclopheptatrienes" with Prof. Dr. H. Dürr.

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Promotion:

July 1981 - July 1984; Department for Organic Chemistry, Technical University of Munich. Title: "Computer Aided Deductive Search for Novel Reactions and their Experimental Realization", with Prof. I. Ugi, summa cum laude.

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Post-Doc.

Sept. 1984 - Sept. 1985; University of Southern California, Los Angeles with Prof. G. A. Olah. "Synthesis of Carbocations and Dications"

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Habilitation

Dec. 1985 - July 1992; Institute for Organic Chemistry, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg with Prof. P. v. R. Schleyer. Title: "Reaction Planning: Rational Design of Chemical Reactions"

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Professor (C3)

since Feb. 1, 1996, Institute for Organic Chemistry, Technical University of Braunschweig.

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Professor (C4)

since March 1, 2001, Institute for Organic Chemistry, Christiana-Albertina University of Kiel

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Visiting Professor

• 1995, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
• 1998, Stanford University, California, USA
• 2005, University of Melbourne, Australia
• 2012, Australian National University, Canberra
• 2017, MIT, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Awards

• 1981, Ph.D. scholarship of the Fund of the Chemical Industry
• 1984, Feodor Lynen scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• 1986, Ph. D. Award of the Technical University of Munich
• 1986, Liebig scholarship of the Fund of the Chemical Industry
• 1993, Chemical Structure Association Trust Award
• 1993, ADUC Jahrespreis für Habilitanden
• 2005, Wilsmore Fellowship, University of Melbourne
• 2007, Rubin lectureship, Technion, Haifa
• 2009, Honorary Membership of the Israel Chemical Society
• 2012, Musher Memorial Lecturer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• 2015, Science Award of the City of Kiel
• 2019, Nozoe Lectureship, Sapporo, Japan
• 2019, Rudolf-Gompper-Memorial-Lecture, Bad Honnef, Germany
• 2023, Adolf von Baeyer Memorial Medal

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Research Areas

• synthetic chemistry
• surface chemistry
• supramolecular chemistry
• computational chemistry

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Startup Companies

• 2020 herges-detection (founder)
• 2023 QuantView (founder)

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Other Posts

• 2014 Chair of selection board of Emil Fischer Medal of GDCh
• 2006-2019 Chairman of SFB 677 "Function by Switching"
• 2002 Board Member of the GDCh devision Computational Chemistry
• 2008 Project Officer of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Chairman of the International Standing Committee of ESOR (European Symposium on Organic Reactivity)
• Member of the International Advisory Board of ISNA (International Symposium of Novel Aromatic Compounds)
• Member of the International Advisory Board of CURO-pi (Curved Organic pi-Molecules and Materials)
• Member of the Advisory Board NFDI4Chem (National Research Data Infrastructure for Chemistry)

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Key Publications

Reaction Planning: Computer-Aided Discovery of a Novel Elimination Reaction
R. Herges, C. Hoock
Science 1992, 255, 711-713

Delocalization of Electrons in Molecules
D. Geuenich, R. Herges
J. Phys. Chem. A 2001, 105, 3214-3220

Synthesis of a Moebius aromatic hydrocarbon
D. Ajami, O. Oeckler, A. Simon, R. Herges
Nature 2003, 426, 819-821

Mounting Freestanding Molecular Functions onto Sufaces: The Platform Approach
B. Baisch, D. Raffa, U. Jung, O. Magnussen, C. Nicolas, J. Lacour, J. Kubitschke, R. Herges
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 442-44

Magnetic Bistability of Molecules in Homogeneous Solution
S. Venkatamarani, U. Jana, M. Dommaschk, F. Soennichsen, F. Tuczek, R. Herges
Science 2011, 331, 445-448