Michael Veith Scientific Director, INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials Germany

1964 - 1971: Study of Chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich/Germany

1971: Dr. rer. nat. (Doctoral thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. N. Wiberg), University of Munich

1971 - 1977: Scientific Assistant at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Karlsruhe/Germany. Introduction into the X-Ray Structure Analysis by Prof. Dr. H. Baernighausen

1977 - 1978: Privatdozent, University of Karlsruhe

1978: a) Heisenberg Fellowship b) Winnacker Fellowship

1979 - 1984: Professor (C3) for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Technical University of Braunschweig/Germany

1982: Chemistry Award of the Academy of Sciences in Goettingen/Germany

since 1984: Professor (C4) for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Saarland, Saarbruecken/Germany

1991: Leibniz Award of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)

1993/94: Call to the universities of Wuerzburg, Mainz und Muenchen (Germany)

1994: Assignment of the "Grignard Wittig Lecture" at French universities by both the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, GDCh) and the Société Française de Chimie

1997 - 2002: Member of the DFG Senatsausschuss fuer Sonderforschungsbereiche as a representative of Chemistry

1999: Initiator and Speaker of the first European Graduate School for Chemistry and Natural Sciences (Saarbruecken/Metz/Nancy/Strasbourg/Luxembourg). (DFG, Ministère Educ. Nation., CNRS), prolongation in 2005 for another period of 3 years

April 2002: Appointment as the External Scientific Member to the Leibniz-Institute for New Materials (INM), Saarbruecken/Germany

June 2004: Appointment as an Officer to the National Order of Merit of France (Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite) by the French State President

June 2004: Member of the Germany Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, Halle/Germany

November 2004: Fellow of the Royal Chemical Society (London, UK)

since August 2005: Scientific Director of the Leibniz-Institute for New Materials, Saarbruecken/Germany

November 2006: Corresponding member of the Academy of Science and Literature, Mainz/Germany

April 2008: Lectures “Tour de Suisse” Fribourg, Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Bern

October 2008: Dr. h. c. Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse