Jun Okuda
Jun Okuda ( Japanese 奥 田 潤 , Okuda Jun ; born July 24, 1957 in Ōsaka , Japan ) is a Japanese chemist and professor of inorganic chemistry at RWTH Aachen University .
life and work
Okuda studied chemistry at RWTH Aachen University, where he did his doctorate in Gerhard E. Herberich's group . After a post-doc stay at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the working group of Nobel Prize winner Richard R. Schrock , the habilitation followed in 1991 in the working group of Wolfgang A. Herrmann at the Technical University of Munich .
After various academic positions at home and abroad, for example at the State University of New York , in 2003 he accepted a professorship for organometallic chemistry at RWTH Aachen University.
The research focus is on ligand design , mechanistic homogeneous catalytic investigations and the development of catalysts for polymerization reactions . Okuda has published more than 200 publications and holds nine patents.
honors and awards
Okuda received the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize in 1991 and was a Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science. This was followed in 1996 as an Iberdrola visiting professor in Spain and visiting scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong . Since 2003 he has been a board member of the Wöhler Association for Inorganic Chemistry of the Society of German Chemists (GDCh) and has been its chairman since 2007. In 2013 Okuda was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Arts . In 2018 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Osaka University .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Jun Okuda at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Biographical data of Jun Okuda on the RWTH Aachen homepage
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Okuda, Jun |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osaka , Japan |