Prof. Dr. Werner M. Nau
Dean for Natural Sciences
Professor of Chemistry
Campus Ring 1
28759 Bremen
Germany

Mailing Address:
P.O.Box 750 561
28725 Bremen
Germany

Telephone: +49 421 200-3233
Fax: +49 421 200-3229
E-Mail: w.nau@jacobs-university.de
Office:Research III, Room 112

Education and Career

Undergraduate Studies in Chemistry at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany (87-90)
Graduate Studies in Chemistry at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada (90-92)
M.Sc. with D. Klapstein, Thesis: “Spectroscopic Studies of Acyl Isocyanates and Acyl Isothiocyanates” (92)
Graduate studies in Chemistry at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany (92-94)
Ph.D. with W. Adam, Thesis: “Electronic Substituent Effects on the ESR Zero-Field Parameters and Lifetimes of Triplet Cyclopentanediyl Diradicals” (94)
Postdoc with J. C. “Tito” Scaiano at the University of Ottawa, Canada (94/95)
Research Director at the University of Basel, Switzerland (96-00)
Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Basel, Switzerland (00-04)
Professor of Chemistry at Jacobs University Bremen (since 02)
Dean for Natural Sciences at Jacobs University Bremen (since 12)

Awards and Prizes

Fellowship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (90/91)
Faculty Prizes at the University of Wuerzburg (89 and 94)
Kekule Fellowship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (92-94)
Studienabschluss-Stipendium of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (94)
NATO Fellowship of the DAAD (94/95)
Canada International Fellowship of NSERC, Canada (94/95)
Liebig Fellowship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (96-98)
Profil-Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (98-00)
International Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize (99)
SNF Professorship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (00-04)
ADUC Prize (01)
Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society (02)
EPA-PPS Prize of the European Photochemistry Association (EPA) (10)

Memberships

Member of the Society of German Chemists (GDCh)
Member, Executive Member (since 2005) and Vice Chairman (since 2010) of the Photochemistry Section of the GDCh
Member of the Liebig-Society of Organic Chemistry
Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and Organic Chemistry Division
Member of the Swiss Chemical Society (SCG)
Member and Executive Member (until 2004) of the Swiss Society of Photochemistry and Photophysics (SGPP), now Section Photochemistry of the SCG
Member, elected European Executive Committee Member (2007-2010), formerly National Representative (2001-2004 for Switzerland, 2007-2008 for Germany) and President (2012-2014) of the European Photochemistry Association (EPA)

Visiting Professorships

01.10-06.10 Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK
07.98-10.98 W. F. James Chair Professor of Pure and Applied Sciences at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
08.01-12.01 Margaret L. and Harlan L. Goering Professor in Organic Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, USA
03.02-06.02 Visiting Professor of Chemistry at the International University Bremen