Andreas HirschProfessor

In 2006 he received the Elhuyar-Goldschmidt-Prize of the Spanish and German Chemical Societies. In 2007 he was elected Professor of the Year (Unicum, Beruf, Germany). In 2010 he received an ERC Advanced Grant and in 2012 he received the Max Grundig Award and the Medal of the Organic Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. In 2017 he became an elected member of the “Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften” and received a second ERC Advanced Grant. Hirsch’s laboratory has been pioneering and is at the forefront of carbon allotrope chemistry and is well known for the investigations of basic principles for the functionalization of the 0-dimensional fullerenes, the 1-dimensional carbon nanotubes and the 2-dimensional graphene, which lead to synthesis of numerous examples of derivatives with tailor made structural-, electronic-, photophysical- and biomedical properties. These studies are also extended to new 2D-materials including black phosphorus and transition metal dichalcogenides.