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ICReDD Director, Prof. Satoshi Maeda received Humboldt Research Award

Prof. Satoshi Maeda, Director of ICReDD and professor at faculty of science, received the Humboldt Research Award and attended the award ceremony held in Berlin, on June 26th (Thur).

[Left] Robert Schlögl, President of the Humboldt Foundation and [Right] Prof. Maeda (photo: Humboldt Foundation/Benjamin Pritzkuleit).

“The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants up to 100 Humboldt Research Awards annually to internationally renowned academics from abroad in recognition of their entire academic record to date.
Academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and beyond and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge academic achievements in future are eligible to be nominated for the award.
Nominations for a Humboldt Research Award may be initiated by established researchers at research institutions in Germany, and the award winners are invited to conduct a research project of their own choosing in Germany in close collaboration with a specialist colleague.”
(https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/sponsorship-programmes/humboldt-research-award)

Prof. Maeda was nominated by Prof. Benjamin List, Principal Investigator of ICReDD, and Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, for his following remarkable research contributions.

He has made outstanding contributions in developing the first computational reaction prediction method. With this achievement, he has opened up the possibility of building a database of predicted chemical reactions. He has also made significant contributions to mechanism elucidation and reaction discovery in the field of chemical synthesis. Professor Maeda´s work focuses on establishing a methodology for predicting unknown chemical reactions from first principles. He actively collaborates with researchers across disciplines to accelerate reaction design with computer scientists and to discover new chemical reactions with organic synthetic chemists. In Germany his work will focus on the mechanism elucidation of asymmetric reactions using organocatalysts.