President's International Advisory Council

Professor Wolfgang A. Herrmann

Former Member, KAUST International Advisory Council
President, Technische Universität München
Germany

Professor Herrmann earned his doctorate in chemistry in 1973 in the area of metal organic chemistry. His scientific work has produced more than 720 original publications, numerous review articles and book contributions. More than 150 theses have been developed under his guidance. He is the owner of numerous honor doctorates from universities in France, Hungary, Romania, the United States, Portugal, Germany and China. He is also the owner of numerous national and international honors, among them the chemistry prize at the Academy of Sciences at Goettingen in 1979, the Gottfried William Leibniz prize of the German Research Council in 1986, the Alexander Humboldt prize in 1989, the Max-Planck research prize in 1991, the Italian Chemical Society’s medal in 1994, the William Wedge prize in 1995, and many more.

Professor Herrmann has served as President of TUM since 1995, having been re-elected in 1999, 2005 and 2007. His comprehensive reform work at TUM has earned TUM, in the Focus Ranking of German universities, the first ranking since 2004. For his university reform work at TUM, Professor Herrmann received in 2005 the Bavarian Medal.