Axel Georg Griesbeck

Born: September 7, 1958

1980 Diploma, University Munich

1980-84 Ph.D. work with Prof. Klaus Gollnick, University Munich

1984-85 Postdoctoral work with Prof. Waldemar Adam, University of Würzburg

1986-87 Postdoctoral work with Prof. Dieter Seebach, ETH Zürich, Switzerland,

1987 Postdoctoral work with Prof. Ernst Fischer, Weizmann-Institute of Science, Israel

1988-90 Habilitation, Universität Würzburg, Liebig-grant of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie

1993 Guest professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

since 1994 Professor at the University of Cologne

1996 Guest professor, National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research, Tsukuba, Japan

1997 Grammaticakis-Neumann-prize of the Swiss Society for Photochemistry and Photophysics

2000 Ciba-Lecturer, Ciba, Switzerland

2000 Guest professor, National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research, Tsukuba, Japan

2001-2005 Chairman of the PHOTOCHEMISTRY SECTION of the German Chemical Society

2006-2009 Vice-Chairman of the PHOTOCHEMISTRY SECTION of the German Chemical Society

2006 Guest professor, Chemistry Research Promotion Center NSC Taiwan

2007-2010 Titular Member: IUPAC OBC Division and Subcommittee on Photochemistry

2009 Honda-Fujishima Award from the Japanese Association for Photochemistry

2012-2014 Secretary of the IUPAC OBC Division III

2014-2017 Chairman of the PHOTOCHEMISTRY SECTION of the German Chemical Society