Tanja Weil

Prof. Dr. Tanja Weil joined the Max Planck Society in 2017 as one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, heading the division “Synthesis of Macromolecules” and was the managing director from February 2022 to February 2024. She studied chemistry (1993–1998) at the TU Braunschweig (Germany) and the University of Bordeaux I (France) and completed her PhD at the MPI for Polymer Research under the supervision of Prof. Klaus Müllen in 2002. In 2003, she received the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society.

From 2002 to 2008, she managed different leading positions at Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH (Frankfurt) from Section Head Medicinal Chemistry to Director of Chemical Research and Development. In 2008 she accepted an Associate Professor position at the National University of Singapore. Since 2010, Tanja Weil has been Director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry III at the University of Ulm. She has received competitive grants and awards at both national and international level including a Synergy Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), the Science Award of the City of Ulm, the Netherlands Supramolecular Chemistry Scholar Award and the Laureate Dr. Manfred Jäger Symposium, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She is a member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation, a member of the senate of the Leibniz Association and also serves as Associate Editor for JACS. Her scientific interests focus on innovative synthesis concepts to achieve functional macromolecules and hybrid materials to solve current challenges in biomedicine and material science.

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