Plenary speaker- Prof. Ddr. Todd B. Marder

Prof. Ddr. Todd B. Marder
Institut für Anorganische Chemie Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Germany

Todd Marder received his B.Sc. from M.I.T. and Ph.D. from UCLA, was a postdoc at the University of Bristol (UK), and a Visiting Research Scientist at DuPont Central Research. He joined the faculty at the University of Waterloo (Canada) in 1985, moved to the University of Durham (UK) in 1997 as Chair of Inorganic Chemistry, and to the University of Würzburg (Germany) in 2012 as Chair I of Inorganic Chemistry where he is now a Senior Professor and Co-Head of the Institute for Sustainable Chemistry & Catalysis with Boron (ICB). Awards include: Royal Society of Canada Rutherford Memorial Medal for Chemistry (Canada), RSC Awards in Main Group Element Chemistry and in Organometallic Chemistry (UK), Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (UK), Humboldt Research Award (Germany), Docteur Honoris Causa, Université de Rennes 1 (France), STA and JSPS Invitation Fellowships (Japan), and a 1000-Foreign Talents Award for Foreign Experts (China) which he declined. He is a Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Germany), Fellow of the RSC (UK), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (USA), Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, and Member of the Academia Europaea (the Pan-European Academy of Sciences, Humanities, and Letters). He has published 450 papers which have been cited over 35000 times (h-index = 103 on Web of Science) and presented >440 invited lectures worldwide.