Bert Meijer

Bert Meijer erhält den Hermann-Staudinger-Preis 2022. Damit ehrt ihn die GDCh für seine herausragenden und kreativen Beiträge zur supramolekularen Polymerchemie. Er hat einige universelle Regeln für den supramolekularen Aufbau von Polymeren aufgestellt, die für die (Bio-)Materialwissenschaft von großer Bedeutung sind. Der Preis wird seit 1971 in geraden Jahren verliehen und umfasst 7500 Euro Preisgeld, eine Goldmedaille und eine Urkunde.

My biggest privilege as scientist is to mentor and work together with young passionate students and postdocs to push the frontiers of science. The beauty of being a university professor lies in helping students and postdocs in their career, just as my PhD advisor helped me. There are many intelligent and ambitious young people, with all kinds of different backgrounds. As a teacher I can help them in this very important part of their career, into a direction that will change their life.

The biggest surprise of my career as a researcher was that I realized that a fundamental study to investigate the options of supramolecular polymers became useful as biomaterials

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