Background
Meierhenrich, Uwe Jürgen was born on October 23, 1967 in Detmold, Germany. Son of Gerhard Karl Gustav and Ingrid Wilma Paula Meierhenrich.
Meierhenrich, Uwe Jürgen was born on October 23, 1967 in Detmold, Germany. Son of Gerhard Karl Gustav and Ingrid Wilma Paula Meierhenrich.
He studied chemistry at the Philipps-University Marburg and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Physical Chemistry at the University of Bremen by Thiemann.
He is professor for Analytical and Physical Chemistry and teaches at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in France. Academic Meierhenrich arose in a family of teachers and professors. Meierhenrich became Post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau and at the French Synchrotron Center LURE. In 2003 Meierhenrich obtained the habilitation with the academic publication The Origin of Biomolecular Asymmetry at the University of Bremen.
In 2005 he became professor at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in France.
In order to honour his work on chirality the Horst-Pracejus-Prize of the GDCh was given to Meierhenrich in 2011.
Member of European Geophysical Society, Deutscher Hochschulverband, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, European Exo/Astrobiology Network Association EANA, International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life ISSOL.
Married Eva Elmshäuser, September 14, 1999. Children: Florian Elmshäuser, Béla Ivo Elmshäuser.