Professor Dr. Volker Schurig - Curriculum Vitae
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Scientific Biography
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Personal Data
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Studies
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Affiliations
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Miscellaneous
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Appointments
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Memberships
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Awards and Fellowships
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Educational Activities
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Former coworkers appointed as Professors of Chemistry
Scientific Biography
"From Metal-Organic Chemistry to Chromatography and Stereochemistry"
V. Schurig, A Century of Separation Science, Haalem J. Issaq, Editor, Marcel Decker, New York, Basel, 2001, Chapter 21, 327-347.
"Today's Chromatographers and Their Discoveries (2000-2008) - Prominent Chromatographers (Awardees), Volker Schurig" Chromatography - A Science of Discovery
edited by R. L. Wixom and C. W. Gehrke, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, 2010, Chapter 5, 176-181.
Acc. to ResearchGate 2023: h-index 65, citations 16.385, research interest score 6.189.
Personal Data
| 16.2.1940 | Born in Dresden (Saxony, Germany) and raised up in Großröhrsdorf/Oberlausitz |
| 1950-58 | Member of the School and Choir "Dresdener Kreuzchor" Boarding School of 750 Years Tradition 1957: 2nd choir instructor (praefectus secundus) |
| 1958 | High School Certificate |
| 30.7.1974 | Marriage with Adina Schurig, geb. Levi |
| 3.4.1981 | Birth of the Daughter Rona Veronique |
| 16.11.1984 | Birth of the Son Jonathan David |
Studies
| 1959 | Immatriculation for Chemistry, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen |
| 1.11.1962 | Prediploma |
| 31.8.1966 | Diploma; Diploma Thesis "Reaction of Halomuconic Acid Esters with Sodium Iron Tetracarbonylate" |
| 5.12.1968 | Doctor of Natural Sciences ("summa cum laude", University Tübingen); Thesis: "Nitrogen-Fixation and Reduction to Ammonia with Metalorganic Catalysts" |
| 22.1.1975 | Habilitation and venia legendi for Organic and Elementorganic Chemistry, University Tübingen; Habilitation Thesis: "Thermodynamics and Analytics of the Molecular Association of Donor Molecules with Transition Metal Chelates by Complexation Chromatography" |
Affiliations
| 1966-68 | Assistant at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University Tübingen (with Prof. E. Bayer) |
| 1969-71 | Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (with Prof. E. Gil-Av) |
| 1971-72 | Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Houston, Texas, USA (with Prof. A. Zlatkis) |
| 1972-76 | Scientific Assistant at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University Tübingen (with Prof. E. Bayer) |
| Juli 1976 | University Reader |
| 1979/80 | C2-Professor for Organic Chemistry |
| March/ April 1980 | Guest Professor at the Université Paris-Sud in Orsay |
| March/ October 1983 | Guest Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel |
| 1990 | Appointment as C3-Professor for Organic Chemistry and Separation Methods at the University of Tübingen |
| 2010 | Visiting Professor at the King Saud University, KSU (http://www.ksu.edu.sa) |
Miscellaneous
| Author and Coauthor of 26 General and 420 Specific Scientific Publications (Hirsch-citation-index 65 in 2023) including Patents, excluding Conference Abstracts and Proceedings |
| 255 Scientific Lectures at National and International Venues |
| Organization of the Conference in Tübingen, October 1992: "Third International Symposium on Chiral Discrimination" |
Appointments
Vorsitzender des Internationalen Studentenclubs (ISC) Tübingen (1962-1963) |
Vertreter der Universität Tübingen im Deutschen Hochschulverband DHV (1988-2020) |
| The Senate of the University of Tübingen (1988-92) |
| Structure Commission of the Senate of the University of Tübingen (1999-2006 ) |
| Coeditor of Journal of Chromatography A published by Elsevier |
| Founding Editor of Enantiomer - a Journal of Stereochemistry published by Gordon & Breach, Discontinued |
| Former Editorial Board member of the Journals Chirality, Microcolumn Separations, Electrophoresis and Journal of Chromatography A. |
| International Advisary Committee: Symposium on Molecular Chirality, 1994 Japan |
| Emeritus Member of the Permanent Committee (2006-2020): Symposia on Chirality (ISCD) |
Awards and Fellowships
| 1966: | Prize of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University Tübingen, for the Diploma Thesis |
| 1969-1971: | Postdoctoral Fellowship of Stiftung Volkswagenwerk (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) |
| 1980: | Fellowship of the Universitè Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, as Guest Professor |
| 1995: | Fellow of "The Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University", Jerusalem, Israel. Subject: "Chirality of Drugs and Chiral Recognition", November 1995 - März 1996 |
| 1996-1999: | Fellow of the TEMPUS-program "Curriculum in Chiral Chemistry" at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia |
| 1998: | Memorial Medal of the Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, for co-developing "New Curriculum of Chiral Chemistry" (TEMPUS-Phare project). |
| 2001: | Honorary Membership of the Slovak Pharmaceutical Society |
| 2003: | Convention Intercantonale Romande pour L'enseignement du 3e Cycle en Chimie, Lecturing Professor, Univ. Basel |
| 2003: | Fellowship Award of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science |
| 2003: | Consultancy of the Exomars Rover Mission: Pasteur Instrument Payload, European Space Agency (ESA), Noordwijk, The Netherlands |
| 2004: | M. J. E. Golay Award and Medal of Chromatography (Riva del Garda, Italy) |
| 2004: | Chirality Medal in Gold (New York, USA) |
| 2005: | Research Prize of the TL-Foundation (Transtec-Lantronix, Tübingen) |
| 2006: | Honorary Emeritus Member of ISCD (Int. Symp. Chiral Discrimination) |
| 2008: | Dr. Ján Weber Prize and Medal of the Slovakian Pharmaceutical Society |
| 2009: | Honorary Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Chromatography A |
| 2010: | Special Issue "Chiral Separations" in Honour of Prof. Volker Schurig, J. Chromatogr. A 1217 (2010) 925-1182 |
| 2016: | Honorary Conference Chair of "The 28th International Symposium on Chiral Discrimination" (Chirality 2016), Heidelberg, Germany (http://www.chirality2016.com) |
Educational activitites
Supervision of 36 Diploma Theses and 45 Doctoral Theses
Former coworkers were appointed as Professors of Chemistry:
Professor Dr. Bernhard Koppenhöfer, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany (Diploma 1976)
Prof_Koppenhoefer@yahoo.de
Professor Dr. Bernd Herr, University of Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany (Diploma 1985)
Bernd.Herr@reutlingen-university.de
Professor Dr. Johann Jauch, University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany (Doctoral Thesis 1992)
j.jauch@mx.uni-saarland.de
Adjunct Professor Dr. Heike N. Hofstetter, née Diebold, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA (Doctoral Thesis 1997)
hofstetter@chem.wisc.edu
Professor Dr. Oliver Hofstetter, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA (Doctoral Thesis 1999)
ohofst@niu.edu
Professor Dr. Oliver Trapp, Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, Munich, Germany (Doctoral Thesis 2001)
oliver.trapp@cup.uni-muenchen.de
Professor Dr. Ashraf Ghanem, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia (Doctoral Thesis 2002)
Ashraf.Ghanem@canberra.edu.au
www.chiralitygroup.com
Professor Dr. Pavel Levkin, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany (Doctoral Thesis 2007)
levkin@kit.edu
Professor Dr. Zhengjin Jiang, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China (Postdoctoral Fellow)
jzjjackson@hotmail.com
Professor Dr. Jingwu Kang, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China (Postdoctoral Fellow)
jingwu.kang@sioc.ac.cn
Professor Dr. Waldemar Iwanek, Faculty of Chemical Technology and Engineering, Bydgoszcz University of Technology, Bydgoszcz, Poland (Postdoctoral Fellow)
iwanek@pbs.edu.pl
Professor emeritus Dr. Zoltán Juvancz, Obuda University, Budapest Tech, Hungary (Postdoctoral Fellow)
juvancz.zoltan@uni-obuda.hu, juvancz.zoltan@rkk.uni-obuda.hu
Professor Ing. Dr. Ivan Špánik, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia (Research associate)
ivan.spanik@stuba.sk