Prof. Dr. Andreas Herrmann

Andreas Herrmann studied chemistry at the University of Mainz (Germany). From 1997 to 2000 he pursued his graduate studies at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. Then he worked as a consultant for Roland Berger Management Consultants in Munich (2001). In the years 2002 and 2003 he returned to academia working on protein engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. In 2004 he was appointed as a head of a junior research group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research. In 2007 he moved to the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, where he held a chair for Polymer Chemistry and Bioengineering. Since 2017 Prof. Herrmann is scientific board member of the DWI Leibniz-Institute for Interactive Materials, Aachen, Germany and Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry and Systems at RWTH Aachen University. He is Vice Scientific Director of the DWI since 2018 and was appointed as Interim Scientific Director by the Board of Trustees as of January 2023.

Awards and Prizes:

• 2024: ERC Advanced Grant
• 2018: DOG Patent-Prize from the German Ophthalmology Society
• 2018: Fellow of Max Planck School “Matter to Life”
• 2018: Pineapple Science Award from the Zhejiang Science and Technology Association
• 2016: ERC Advanced Grant
• 2016: Coordinator of MSCA Cofund Grant from the ERC
• 2013: Eyenovative Prize from Novartis
• 2012: Winner of the Dutch Venture Challenge organized by the Netherlands Genomic Initiative
• 2011: The Herrmann laboratory was placed among the top 10 chemistry groups in the Netherlands in an assessment from the office Quality Assurance Netherlands Universities
• 2010: VICI Grant from the Dutch Science Organization (NWO)
• 2009: Starting Grant from the European Research Commission (ERC)
• 2009: Dr. Hermann-Schnell-Prize from the GDCh
• 2008: Reimund-Stadler-Prize from the German Chemical Society (GDCh)
• 2000: Ph.D. summa cum laude from the University of Mainz, Germany

Institutional Responsibilities:

• 2018 – 2020: Head of Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University
• 2014 – 2017: Head of the Board of the Zernike Institute
• 2012 – 2014: Board member of the Zernike Institute
• 2011 – 2017: Program director at the UMCG for the research line “Nanobiotechnology and Advanced Therapeutic Materials” (NANOBIOMAT)
• 2011 – 2017: Member of the W.J. Kolff Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)
• 2009 – 2017: Associate member of the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry at the RUG
• 2008: Cofounder of the “Center for Synthetic Biology” at the RUG
• 2007 – present: Faculty member in the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen (RUG), The Netherlands

Professional Functions and Scientific Affiliations:

• 2022 – present: Editorial Board “Progress in Polymer Science”
• 2018 – present: Fellow of the Max Planck School 'Matter to Life'
• 2017 – present: Editorial Advisory Board “Nanofabrication”
• 2015: Reviewer for Leibniz Association, Germany
• 2014 – present: Executive Advisory Board of Advanced Science  
• 2013 – present: Editorial Advisory Board “Bioconjugate Chemistry”
• 2013: Member of founding committee of Institute for Basic Science in South Korea
• 2009 – present: Editorial Advisory Board “Recent Patents on Nanomedicine”
• 2008: Program coordinator of the Dutch Nano-Initiative
• 2008 – present: Editorial Advisory Board “The Open Nanomedicine Journal”