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Evamarie Hey-Hawkins has been a Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Leipzig University, Germany, since 1993 and is professor emerita since 2023. She received her diploma (1982) and doctoral degree (1983) at Philipps University, Marburg, Germany. After stays at the University of Sussex, UK (Liebig Grant VCI, 1984/85), the University of Western Australia (Liebig Grant, 1985/86) and the ANU, Canberra, Australia (research grant, DFG, 1986/87), she completed her habilitation in Marburg (1988). From 1988-1990 she was a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany.
She was awarded a Heisenberg Grant from the DFG (1990-94), has obtained several visiting professorships, and has received a Visiting Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (2007), an ANU Fellowship (Canberra, Australia, 2009) and a Fellowship of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in 2016.
In 2013, she was awarded the degree of “Distinguished Woman in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering” by IUPAC. In 2015, the German Chemical Society (GDCh) and Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ) jointly honoured her with the Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Lecture Award, and in 2016 she was the recipient of the Costin Nenitzescu-Rudolf Criegee Lecture Award, awarded jointly by the GDCh and the Romanian Academy of Sciences. In 2014, she was awarded an honorary doctoral degree (Dr. h.c.) by Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania, and in May 2016, she has received her second honorary doctoral degree from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia. In 2016, the Romanian Chemical Society (SChR) honoured her with the Costin Neniţescu Medal. In 2017, she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony, Germany. In 2018, she was elected as ChemPubSoc Europe Fellow and as a member of the European Academy of Sciences, and Leipzig University honoured her with the University Medal. In 2019, she received the Leipzig Science Award. In 2021, she was awarded the prestigious Karl-Ziegler-Prize and elected as Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts at Salzburg.
She acts as a reviewer for several national research foundations and serves on several editorial and international scientific advisory boards. From 2007 to 2017, she has been the Speaker and from 2018-2021 she was the Vice-Speaker of the Graduate School “Building with Molecules and Nano-objects” (BuildMoNa). From 2008 to 2013, she has been the Chair of the EU-COST Action CM0802 “European Phosphorus Sciences Network” (PhoSciNet), and from 2013 to 2018, she has chaired a COST Action on “Smart Inorganic Polymers” (CM1302, SIPs).
She is a member of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) since 1983 among other memberships. Her scientific interests are in the field of organophosphorus chemistry, biologically active boron and transition metal compounds, heterometallic transition metal complexes and catalysis. Around 100 doctoral students have graduated from her group. She has authored more than 600 publications in refereed journals.
She is currently the head of the IUPAC/German Central Committee for Chemistry (DZfCh), Vice President of the German Society on Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (DGBNCT) and project leader at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Babeș Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
