Prof. Dr. Andreas Hirsch University Erlangen-Nuremberg Institut für Organische Chemie II Henkestr. 42 91054 Erlangen Room: 209 Phone: +49 (0) 9131 85 22 537 Fax: +49 (0) 9131 85 26 864 E-Mail:

Andreas Hirsch was born in Esslingen, Germany, in 1960. He studied chemistry at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, where he obtained his PhD in 1990 under Michael Hanack. He has carried out postdoctoral research at the Institute of Polymers and Organic Solids in Santa Barbara, California, with Fred Wudl. In 1991 he subsequently returned to Tübingen as research associate at the Institute for Organic Chemistry. After his Habilitation in 1994 he joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe as a professor. He received the Otto Roehm Preis (1994), the ADUC Jahrespreis für Habilitanden 1994 and the Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Prize 2006. Since October 1995, he has been Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Andreas Hirsch’s main research activities have been focussed on the development of methodologies for efficient syntheses of exohedral derivatives of fullerenes and the use of such compounds as structural templates and building blocks for supramolecular architectures and nanomaterials. Other research interests are in the area of dendrimers, calixarene conjugates, new alkynes, new types of synthetic lipids and amphiphiles, model compounds for photoinduced charge transfer, chemical derivatization and solubilization of carbon nanotubes, including the investigation of their synthetic potential and properties as new materials.