Who we are

Professor Dr. Ulrich S. Schubert

Jena

*17 July 1969, Tübingen (Germany)
Married to Dr. Stephanie Schubert
5 children

1988-1990   
Studies of chemistry, University of Frankfurt a.M. (intermediate diploma)

1990-1993   
Studies of chemistry, University of Bayreuth, with research stay at the Virginia Commonwealth University, USA, Chemistry Diploma

1993-1995   
Doctorate Dr. rer. nat., University of Bayreuth and University of South Florida / USA (Prof. Newkome)

1995-1996   
Post-doc stay at the Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg (Mentor Prof. Dr. Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Laureate 1987), France

1996-1999   
Habilitation in Chemistry at the TU Munich

1999-2000   
Associate professorship (C3) at the Center for Nanoscience, LMU Munich

2000           
Heisenberg scholarship by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) and lecturer scholarship by the Chemical industry fund (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, FCI)

2000-2007   
Full Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering and board member at the Center for NanoMaterials (cNM), Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

2003-2007   
Member of the Management Team and Scientific Chairman Technology Area HTE, Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), Eindhoven, Netherlands

2003/2004   
Guest professorship Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

2007-2010   
Part-time Professor Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

2007-2014   
Scientific Chairman Technology Area HTE, Member of the Management Board of the division „Cooperate Research“, Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), Eindhoven, Netherlands

2007-          
Full Professor (W3) at the Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC) of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU Jena)

• 2007-2013 
  2019-         
  Director (“Geschäftsführender Direktor”) of the Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC)
  
• 2008-2014
  Spokesperson of the research focus “Innovative Materials and Technologies”
• 2010-2013
  Vice Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences
• 2010-        
  (Founding) Director Jena Center for Soft Matter (JCSM)
• 2012-        
  Member of the Faculty Council, Faculty for Chemistry and Earth Sciences
• 2013-2017 
  Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences
• 2014-2019
  Vice-Spokesperson of the Research Profile Line “Light”
• 2014-        
  (Founding) Director Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry (CEEC Jena)
• 2019-        
  Member of the planning team for the new buildings CEEC Jena II and AWZ CEEC Jena (Builder FSU Jena; ca. EUR 53 Mio.)
• 2019-        
  Member of the senate of the FSU Jena, Member of the Mediation Committee as representative of the university teachers in the Senate
• Chairman of 14 appointment committees

2017           
Appointment as an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam and as a scientific member of the Max Planck Society

2018           
Guest professorship at the Université Bordeaux, France

2009-2014
Coordinator of the Top Cluster PhoNa (BMBF, EUR 10 Mio.)

2009-2020
Coordinator of three ProExcellence programmes and applicant for two ProExcellence professorships, Free State of Thuringia (EUR 4,5 Mio.)

2011-2017
Coordinator of the DFG Priority Program (SPP 1568) “Design and Generic Principles of Self-healing Materials” (EUR 12 Mio.)

2017-
Spokesperson of the DFG Collaborative Research Center 1278 CRC PolyTarget (EUR 10 Mio.)

2017
Applicant 91b science council for the new building CEEC Jena II (EUR 26 Mio.)

2019-
Principal Investigator and Research Area Coordinator Cluster of Excellence (EXC) “Balance of the Microverse“ / Excellence strategy of the federal and state governments (DFG / Science Council)

2019-
Coordinator EU ITN “POLYSTORAGE“ (EUR 4 Mio.)

2020-
Coordinator Priority Programme "Polymer-based Batteries" (SPP 2248), DFG (EUR 12 Mio.)

Total third-party funding since 2007: EUR 65 million plus EUR 135 million as lead partner in new building projects.

2008-          
Member of the advisory board at the Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nano Systems ENAS, Chemnitz, Germany

2012-          
Member of the jury for the Innovation Award Thuringia, 2019 chairman of the jury

2013-2020   
Member of the board of the division Macromolecular Chemistry of the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, GDCh),
2015-2020 Deputy Chairman of the Management Board,
since 2021 guest of the board 

2014-2021          
Chairman of the supervisory board of the BMBF “zwanzig20” consortium “smart3”, Dresden

2015-          
Member of the advisory board POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain

2016-2024  
Member of the review board 306-03 ("Polymer Materials") of the DFG, vice-chairman for Polymer Sciences. Re-elected as review board member for 2020-2024, chairman for Polymer Sciences

2018-          
Member of the scientific advisory board of the Leibniz Institute DWI Aachen

2018-          
Member of the selection committee of the „Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies“ (ICREA), Spain

2019           
Member of the advisory board of the Bavarian Center for Battery Technology (BayBatt) at the University of Bayreuth

1999           
Head of Department for Central Research at the Bayer AG, Leverkusen

1999
Chair for Emulsion Polymerization, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

2007           
W3 professorship at the University of Stuttgart (in conjunction with the management of the Institute for Textile Chemistry and Chemical Fibers (ITCF) Denkendorf)

2007           
W3 professorship at the University of Hamburg

2012           
Director „Centre for Materials Discovery“, University College London, UK

2016           
Executive Director A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Singapur

2017           
W3 professorship at the University of Münster, connected with a directorship at the Helmholtz Institute Münster

5 Spin-off companies, 2 company establishments, founding ambassador of the K1-Gründerservice FSU Jena, 52 patents/patent applications (thereof 35 transferred to industry)

1996           
Bavarian habilitation award (Zehetmair Price)

1998           
Habilitation award of the Section Macromolecular Chemistry of the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, GDCh)

2004           
VICI award (EUR 1,5 Mio.) of the Netherland Organization for Scientific Research, Netherlands

2009           
Jan Pieter Lemstra Innovation Award, Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), Netherlands

2010           
International Biannual BPG Award, Belgian Polymer Group, Belgium

2013           
Molecular Science Forum Professorship, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), China

2013           
Polymer Division Fellow, ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry, USA

2014           
Fellow (FRSC), Royal Society of Chemistry, UK

2015           
IQ Innovation Award Central Germany (IQ Innovationspreis Mitteldeutschland), JenaBatteries GmbH (Spin-off company)

2015-          
“Highly cited researcher”, ISI Thomson Reuter / Clarivate Analytics

2015-          
Member selection committee for the Liebig commemorative coin (GDCh)

2015           
Thuringian Innovation Award (Thüringer Innovationspreis), SmartDyeLivery GmbH (Spin-off company)

2016           
Elected member National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)

2017           
Thuringian Research Award for Applied Research

2017           
Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), USA

2018           
Federal Cross of Merit with Ribbon, Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz), awarded by Federal President Steinmeier

2019           
University Teacher of the Year, German University Association (Deutscher Hochschulverband, DHV) / DIE ZEIT

2019           
Culture Prize of the City of Bayreuth (for the Easter Festival Bayreuth)

• 1.150 peer-reviewed publications in international journals
  Web-of-Science Ranking: Total number of citations >56.100, h-Index 108
• Google Scholar: Total number of citations > 72.700, h-Index 122
• Member of International Advisory Boards of 10 scientific journals
• Guest editor of 14 special issues / books, 4 specialized textbooks
  (Co-)Organizer of >25 international workshops, symposia & conferences

Teaching activities in the subjects organic chemistry, macromolecular chemistry, nanoscience and material sciences

• Supervision of 92 completed doctoral theses (Jena & Eindhoven), 93 diploma/master theses and 50 bachelor theses
• 12 junior research group leaders and 14 professors have emerged from the research group
• current mentoring of Emmy-Noether-, BMBF- and Carl-Zeiss-supported junior research groups, among others

Founder and Chairman of the Cultural and Social Foundation International Young Orchestra Academy (Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie, IJOA): Founder and Chairman of the Cultural and Social Foundation International Young Orchestra Academy: annually about 120 musicians from 35 nations. Organisation of 700 charity concerts in Bavaria, Saxony, Thuringia, North Rhine-Westphalia and the Slovak Republic (1995-2019; amount donated to children suffering from cancer: EUR 1.5 million), 24 CD recordings (11 with BR Klassik), patronage among others by the Minister President Michael Kretschmer and Dr. Markus Söder, Federal President Horst Köhler and EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso.

Since May 2019 member of Jena City Council (non-party and non-attached).