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Place of Birth: Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Ulrich S. Schubert
- Ulrich Sigmar Schubert (born 17 July 1969, Tübingen) is a professor of Chemistry at University of Jena.
- He studied chemistry at the Universities of Frankfurt and Bayreuth (both Germany) and the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States.
- His Ph.D.
- work was performed under the supervision of Professor Eisenbach (Bayreuth, Germany) and George R.
- Newkome, Florida, United States.
- In 1995, he obtained his doctorate with Eisenbach.
- After a postdoctoral training with Jean-Marie Lehn (Nobel Laureate in 1987) at the University of Strasbourg (France), he moved to the Technical University of Munich (Germany) to obtain his habilitation in 1999.
- From 1999 to spring 2000 he held a temporal position as a professor at the Center for NanoScience at the Technical University of Munich.
- He became a Full-Professor in summer 2000 at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
- Since summer 2007, Schubert teaches at the University of Jena and holds the chair for Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry.
- From 2010, he is the scientific chairman in the fields of HTE at the Dutch Polymer Institute.
- In addition, he acts as the Director of the "Institute of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry" and directs the research cluster "Innovative Materials and Technologies" at the University of Jena.
- He currently is the director of the Jena Center for Soft Mater (JCSM) and the Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena (CEEC Jena). His Awards include the Bayerischen Habilitations-Förderpreis, the Habilitandenpreis of the GDCh (Fachgruppe Makromolekulare Chemie), the Heisenberg-Stipendium of the DFG, the Dozenten-Stipendium of the Fonds der Chemische Industrie, the VICI award of NWO and the BPG award.
- Among 640.000 chemists worldwide, Schubert is ranked at place 195.
- He published over 930 scientific publications, four books and 38 patents.
- Currently he is listed with a h-index of 91 with 36400 citations (Google scholar: 44400 citations and 103 h-index).The companies JenaBatteries GmbH (2012), SmartDyeLivery GmbH (2014) und Polymer Libraries GmbH (2014) were founded out of his professorship. On 23.10.2017 the Free State of Thuringia started a new image campaign (das-ist-thueringen.de), with Schubert as advertising ambassador for Thuringia.Schubert also gained musical education as clarinetist in Frankfurt (Germany), Richmond and Tampa (both United States).
- Chamber orchestra courses led him to the Abegg Trio, Hagen Quartet, Amadeus Quartet, Prof.
- Jan Doormann and Prof.
- Francois Benda.
- He played in various cities in Europe and the United States. In 1993, he founded the concert series "Forum Junger Musiker" in Bayreuth.
- Since then the Forum Junger Musiker presents chamber concerts at the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth.
- In 1994, Schubert founded the Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie (IJOA) together with Andreas Göldel, August Everding and Sir Charles Mackerras.
- In 1995, he brought the Bayreuther Osterfestival into life.
- He is now president of the Kultur- und Sozialstiftung Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie (IJOA) (Cultural and Social Foundation International Youth Orchestra Academy) and artistic director of the Bayreuther Osterfestival.
- The festival, bringing musicians from all over the world with a special focus on conflict areas such as Israel-Palestine or North Korea- and South Korea, allows young people to find access to each other on peaceful basis.
- The gains of the concerts will be donated to the children with cancer, which is the original asset of the foundation.
- The Academy has so far raised over € 1,200,000 for charity.
- Hospitals and institutions helping children with cancer in the regions where the concerts take place get donations from the sales of concert tickets and CDs.
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