Evamarie Hey-Hawkins

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Evamarie Hey-Hawkins (born July 29, 1957 in Scherfede ) is a German chemist and professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Leipzig .

Life

Evamarie Hey-Hawkins completed her chemistry studies at the Philipps University of Marburg with a diploma (1982) and then received her doctorate summa cum laude with a thesis on alkyne complexes under Kurt Dehnicke (1983). After stays at the University of Sussex , UK (financed by a Liebig scholarship from VCI , 1984/85), the University of Western Australia (Liebig scholarship, 1985/86) and the Australian National University , Canberra, Australia (research scholarship from DFG , 1986/87) she returned to Germany and completed her habilitation at the Philipps University of Marburg (1988). From 1988 to 1990 she was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research , Stuttgart, Germany.

She received a Heisenberg grant from the DFG from 1990 to 1994 and was visiting professor at Pamukkale University , Turkey ( TÜBITAK ), the University of Rennes 1 , France (2007) and Monash University , Melbourne, Australia (2008, 2009).

Since 1993 she has been a full professor for inorganic chemistry at the University of Leipzig.

Hey-Hawkins is married to the chemist Stephen Hawkins, whom she met during a postdoctoral stay at the University of Sussex in Brighton.

research

The Hey-Hawkins working group comprises around 30 doctoral students, MSc and BSc students and postdocs. 77 doctoral students have already completed their doctorates at the Hey-Hawkins AK (as of 2019). Evamarie Hey-Hawkins' research interests are varied and include inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, bioorganometallic chemistry, with a focus on synthesis (Schlenk technology, preparative chromatography for air-sensitive compounds), reactivity and structure determination (IR, UV-Vis, NMR, X-ray crystal structure analysis) of organometallic, coordination and Main group element connections, especially:

  • Homogeneous catalysis with mononuclear and polynuclear transition metal complexes: reactions of transition metal complexes with functionalized ligands (N, P, As, O, S donors), (chiral, functionalized) phosphorus compounds , switchable catalysts, (chiral) metal-organic framework compounds (MOFs) and coordination polymers, heteronuclear complexes.
  • Applications of inorganic compounds in medical and biological areas: Biologically active carborane derivatives (phenylmimetics), enzyme inhibitors (anti-tumor agents, anti-inflammatory agents), carborane derivatives for BNCT (cancer therapy), carboranyl- and phosphanyl-substituted amino acids, metal- and phosphorus-based anti-tumor agents.
  • Precursors for materials: alkali and alkaline earth metal phosphanides and phosphandiides, complexes with reactive metal-phosphorus bonds, phosphorus-rich precursors for phosphorus-rich metal phosphides.

Her scientific results have appeared in more than 470 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Awards

  • 2019 Leipzig Science Prize
  • 2018 appointed member of the European Academy of Sciences
  • 2018 Award of the University Medal of the University of Leipzig
  • 2018 ChemPubSoc Europe Fellowshipy awarded
  • 2017 Awarded the Saxon Order of Merit
  • 2016 Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • 2016 Costin Neniţescu Medal, awarded by the Romanian Chemical Society (SChR)
  • 2016 Honorary Doctorate, Doctor Honoris Causa (Dr. hc), awarded by the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia
  • 2016 Costin Nenitzescu Rudolf Criegee Lecture, jointly awarded by the GDCh and the Romanian Academy of Sciences
  • 2015 Elhuyar-Goldschmidt lecture, jointly awarded by the GDCh and the Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ)
  • 2014 Honorary Doctorate, Doctor Honoris Causa (Dr. hc), awarded by Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
  • 2013 IUPAC 2013 Distinguished Woman in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Award
  • Member of AcademiaNet since 2010
  • 02/2009 - 03/2009 Australian National University Fellowship, ANU, Canberra, Australia
  • 08/2007 - 10/2007 Visiting Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
  • 06/2007 Visiting professor, Université de Rennes 1, France
  • 02/2007 Visiting Professor, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey (by TÜBITAK)
  • 05/1999 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (CChem FRSC)
  • 1990–1993 Heisenberg fellowship, DFG, Germany
  • 1984–1986 Liebig Scholarship, Association of the Chemical Industry, Germany

Memberships

Hey-Hawkins is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a member of several editorial boards (Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem., Chemistry Central Journal, Inorganics, Biochemical and Biophysical Journal of Neutron Therapy & Cancer Treatments) and a member of the International Advisory Board of ChemPlusChem.

From 2008 to 2016 Evamarie Hey-Hawkins was a DFG review colleague (molecular chemistry). From 2008 to 2013 she was Chair of the EU-COST Action CM0802 “European Phosphorus Sciences Network” (PhoSciNet) and from 2013 to 2018 she headed the COST Action Smart Inorganic Polymers (SIPs). From 2007 to 2017 she was the spokesperson for the graduate school “Building with Molecules and Nano-objects” (BuildMoNa); She has been the deputy spokesperson since 2018. Since January 2016 she has been a member of the board of the Society of German Chemists ( GDCh ).

Further memberships: GDCh (since 1983), DHV (since 2006), DAAD selection commissions, reviewer for ASIIN (since 2007), member of the board of trustees of the German National Academic Foundation (since 2009), member of the advisory board of the chemistry department at Philipps University Marburg (since 2013), member of the Senate Evaluation Committee of the Leibniz Association (since 2015).

Works

  • E. Hey-Hawkins, C. Viñas Teixidor (Eds.): Boron-Based Compounds: Potential and Emerging Applications in Medicine. Wiley, 2018, ISBN 978-1-119-27555-8 . (wiley.com)
  • E. Hey-Hawkins, M. Hissler (Eds.): Smart Inorganic Polymers: Synthesis, Properties and Emerging Applications in Materials and Life Sciences. Wiley, 2019, ISBN 978-3-527-34484-0 . (wiley.com)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to prabook and professor portraits Uni Leipzig
  2. ↑ a b Evamarie Hey-Hawkins: Current newsreel: “Living, teaching and research in Leipzig” , GdCh , September 22, 2012, accessed: December 1, 2019
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ chemistryviews.org
personal data
SURNAME Hey-Hawkins, Evamarie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and professor for inorganic chemistry at the University of Leipzig
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Scherfede