Stefan Hecht

Stefan Hecht was born in 1974 and grew up in Berlin, where he studied chemistry at Humboldt-Universität from 1992-1997. He carried out his Diplom thesis research in the area of organic photochemistry with the late Prof. William G. Dauben at the University of California, Berkeley. After receiving his diploma from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 1997, he returned to Berkeley to pursue his graduate studies in the field of organic polymer chemistry under the guidance of Prof. Jean M. J. Fréchet and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2001. Directly after, he started his independent academic career as a young investigator (assistant professor) at Freie Universität Berlin (2001-2004) and continued as a group leader (associate professor) at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim upon Ruhr (2005-2006). From 2006-2019 he held the Chair of Organic Chemistry and Functional Materials at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In August 2019, Prof. Hecht became the Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials (DWI) in Aachen and holds the Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University.
(Image Prof. Stefan Hecht, PhD©Phatcharin Tha-in)