Matthias Tamm
Matthias Tamm (born February 12, 1967 in Berlin ) is a German chemist and university professor.
Life
After graduating from high school in 1985, Tamm began studying at the Technical University of Berlin in 1986, graduating in 1990 with a diploma. In 1992 he was promoted to Dr. rer. nat. is doing his doctorate on the synthesis and coordination chemistry of polyisocyanides.
As a postdoc , he was a visiting researcher in research and development at DuPont in Wilmington, Delaware , from 1993/1994 . On his return, Tamm began his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin, which he continued from 1998 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , where he had followed his doctoral supervisor.
In 1999 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on transition metal complexes with dipolar cycloheptatrienyl ligands . His appointment as a private lecturer followed in 2001 as a university lecturer.
From 2002 onwards, Tamm represented Wolfgang A. Herrmann's chair for inorganic chemistry at the Technical University of Munich until he was appointed to a W3 professorship for inorganic and analytical chemistry at the Technical University of Braunschweig in 2005 . In 2009, he turned down the offer of a W3 professorship for inorganic chemistry at the Free University of Berlin .
He is married and has four kids.
Honourings and prices
- Scholarship from the Research Training Group Synthesis and Structure Elucidation of Low Molecular Weight Compounds
- PhD scholarship from BASF
- Graduation grant from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
- Habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation
- Rudolf von Bennigsen-Foerder (Manager) Prize 2000 from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Scholarship from the Karl Ziegler Foundation of the Society of German Chemists (2001)
- Dr. Otto Röhm Memorial Foundation (2001)
Web links
- Literature by and about Matthias Tamm in the catalog of the German National Library
- Matthias Tamm on tu-braunschweig.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tamm, Matthias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |