Prof. Dr. Egbert Willem Meijer

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsOrganic Molecular Chemistry,Preparative and Physical Chemistry of Polymers
KeywordsFunctional supramolecular polymers, Chirality, Supramolecular chemistry
Honours and awards

2022: Hermann Staudinger Preis of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (2022)

2022: The Stephanie L. Kwolek Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry for Teams (2022)

2022: Van ‘t Hoff Medal of Society for the Advancement of Nature, Medicine and Surgery (2022)

2020: Commander in the Order of the Netherlands Lion (2020)

2019: Doctorem Honoris Causa of the Free Universität Berlin (2019)

2018: ERC Advanced Research Grant (2018)

2018: 28th Chirality Medal of the Società Chimica Italiana, Princeton (2018)

2017: Doctorem Honoris Causa of the University of Mons, Belgium (2017)

2017: Humboldt Forschungs Preis of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2017)

2017: 32rd Nagoya Gold Medal Award in Organic Chemistry, Japan (2017)

2014: Academy Professorship Award of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science (2014)

2014: Belgium Polymer Group Award (2014)

2014: Prelog medal of the ETH Zurich (2014)

2013: International Solvay Chair in Chemistry of the Solvay Institute, Brussels (2013-2014)

2012: Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the ACS (2012)

2011: International Award of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (2011)

2011: Wheland Medal of the University of Chicago (2011)

2010: AkzoNobel Science Award of the Royal Dutch Society of Science (2010)

2010: ERC Advanced Research Grant (2010)

2009: Best teacher of the year of the Eindhoven University of Technology (2009)

2006: ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry (2006)

2001: SPINOZA-Award of the Dutch Science Foundation NWO (2001)

2000: Silver Medal of the MacroGroup UK of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2000)

1995: Arthur K. Doolittle Award of the ACS-division PMSE (1995)

1993: Golden Medal of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society (1993)

Current contact address

CountryNetherlands
CityEindhoven
InstitutionEindhoven University of Technology
InstituteMacromolecular and Organic Chemistry

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Rainer HaagInstitut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2018

Programme(s)

2017Humboldt Research Award Programme