Ulrich Sigmar Schubert is a professor of Chemistry at Jena University.
Education
He studied chemistry at the Universities of Frankfurt and Bayreuth (both Germany) and the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (United States of America). His Doctor of Philosophy work was performed under the supervision of Professor Eisenbach (Bayreuth, Germany) and Professor Newkome Florida, United States of America.
Career
In 1995, he obtained his doctorate with Professor Eisenbach. From 1999 to spring 2000 he held a temporal position as a professor at the Center for NanoScience at the Technische Universität München (Germany). He became a Full-Professor in summer 2000 at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
Since summer 2007, Professor Doctor Ulrich South. Schubert teaches at the Friedrich-Schiller-UniversityJena 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.
His Awards include the Bayerischen Habilitations-Förderpreis, the Habilitandenpreis of the GDCh (Fachgruppe Makromolekulare Chemie), the Heisenberg-Stipendium of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), the Dozenten-Stipendium of the Fonds der Chemische Industrie, the VICI award of New World Order and the BPG award. Among 640.000 chemists worldwide, Professor Doctor Ulrich South. Schubert is ranked at place 195.
He published over 530 scientific publications, four books and 18 patents.
Professor Doctor Ulrich South. Schubert also gained musical education as clarinetist in Frankfurt (Germany), Richmond and Tampa (both United States of America). Chamber orchestra courses led him to the Abegg-Trio, Hagen-Quartett, Amadeua-Quartett, Professor January Doormann and Professor
Francois Benda.
He played in various cities in Europe and the United States of America. 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, Professor Ulrich South. Schubert founded the Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie(IJOA) together with Doctor Andreas Göldel, Professor
August Everding and Sir Charles Mackerras.
In 1995, he brought the Bayreuther Osterfestival into life. He is now president of the Kulturund 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 Koreaand South of 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 € 800.000 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. The major focus his research interest relates to metallo-supramolecular (block) copolymers and the investigation of the self-assembly process, characterization of supramolecular assemblies in solution, combinatorial material research, heterocyclic chemistry, supramolecular materials, surface biochemistry, nanoscience and tailor-made handcuff-macromolecules, which can be used in bioscience or medical applications. More information on research topic is available on www.schubert-group.com.