Marcus Weck

Professor Weck, born 1968 in Berlin, Germany, received his education in Germany and the United States. He earned his Diplom in 1994 from the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz under the tutelage of Professor Helmut Ringsdorf. In 1992, after the Vordiplom, Professor Weck went for two quarters to the University of California at Irvine as a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) exchange student. In January of 1995, he started his graduate work under the supervision of Professor Robert H. Grubbs at the California Institute of Technology and received his Ph.D. in 1998. After a two-year postdoctoral stay funded by the DAAD at Harvard University with George M. Whitesides, he joined the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000 as an Assistant Professor and was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 2005. In 2007, he moved to New York University (NYU) where he is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Associate Director of the Molecular Design Institute. Since the beginning of his independent career in 2000, Dr. Weck has published over 180 peer-reviewed manuscripts, is co-investigator on ten patents, published seven book chapters, and presented over 100 invited seminars. His publications have been cited over 7000 times and he has a Hirsch-factor of 68. His accomplishments have been recognized with a large number of awards including the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a Blanchard Assistant Professor Award, a 3M-Nontenure Faculty Award, a DuPont Young Professor Award, Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award, a CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Tetrahedron Most Cited Paper 2004-2007 Award, a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Award of the Humboldt Foundation, and he was elected a Fellow of the Polymer Division of the American Chemical Society. He is or has been a member of the editorial advisory boards of the journals Macromolecules (ACS), Macromolecular Rapid Communications (Wiley), Polymer Chemistry (RSC), and Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics (Wiley) and has been a guest editor for the journal Polymer Chemistry (RSC).