Previous Recipients of the Hans and Marlies Zimmer International Scholar
| Year | Awardee |
| 2024 | Ciara O'Sullivan (Ryan White host) "Next Generation Tools for the Emerging and Future Paradigm of Clinical Diagnostics" |
| 2023 | Daniele Leonori (Wei Liu host) RWTH Aachen University, Germany "Novel synthetic methods using halogen-atom transfer and photoexcited nitroarenes' |
| 2021-2022 | Mini Symposium honoring the 2021 and 2022 Zimmer International Scholars Paolo Carloni, 2021 (Tom Beck host) Director, Institute of Neuroscience & Medicine Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS) Computational Biomedicine (IAS-5 / INM-9) "Multiscale Simulations of Neuronal G-protein Coupled Receptors" Francesco Ricci, 2022 (Pietro Strobbia host) University of Rome "Synthetic DNA-based Devices, Switches and Genes for Clinical Applications" |
| 2020 | Pance Naumov (Anna Gudmundsdottir host) New York University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates "Organic Crystals - a new class of engineering materials" |
| 2019 | Patrick Unwin (Ryan White host) University of Warwick “A New Look at Interfacial Processes” |
| 2018 | Dr. Thierry Toupance (Bill Connick host) University of Bordeaux "Molecular approaches towards Organic-Inorganic Hybrid and Nanostructured Metal Oxide Materials for Gas Sensing, Photovoltaic and Photocatalysis Applications" Prof. Mona Treguer-Delapierre (Peng Zhang host) University of Bordeaux "Customizing the Surface of Nano-objects for Engineering Hybrid Nanoparticles" |
| 2017 | 15th Year: Reunion of 5 former Zimmer Scholars Cornelia Bohne, University of Victoria, Canada Amnon Horovitz, Weizmann Institute, Israel Manabe Abe, University of Hiroshima, Japan |
| 2016 | Lutz H. Gade, University of Heidelberg, Germany (Hairong Guan host) "Enantioselective Catalysis with 3d Transition Metal Complexes: Chiral Pincers as Stereodirecting Ligands" |
| 2015 | Yoan Simon, Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland (Neil Ayres host) Polymers: lightening up the mood |
| 2014 | Prof. Dr. Mark Helm, Inst. for Chemistry & Biochemistry, Mainz, Germany (Pat Limbach host) Chemistry and Biology of Modified RNA |
| 2013 |
Prof. Dr. Felix Tuczek, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany (Michael Baldwin host) Ammonia Synthesis from N2 at Room Temperature and Normal Pressure: Experimental and Theoretical Results |
| 2012 | Prof. Dr. Hans Borner, Humboldt-UniversitÃÂät zu Berlin (Neil Ayres host) Institute of Chemistry / Laboratory of Organic Synthesis of functional Systems Humboldt-UniversitÃÂät zu Berlin Bioinspired Polymer Science: An entire world in between plastics and proteins |
| 2011 | Matthias Rief, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany (Ruxandra Dima host) Mechanics and Dynamics of Single Protein Molecules |
| 2010 | Christian Reber, University of Montreal, Canada (Bill Connick host) Optical Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Compounds: From Coordination Geometries and Excited-state Properties to Tunable Intermolecular Effects |
| 2009 | Manabu Abe, Hiroshima University, Japan (Anna Gudmundsdottir host) Generation of Long-lived Singlet 1,3-biradicals, and Their Related Chemistry |
| 2008 | Amnon Horovitz, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel (George Stan host) Protein Folding in the Machine Age: Chaperonin Function and Mechanism |
| 2007 | Mark von Itzstein, Griffith University, Australia (Suri Iyer host) Pandemic Influenza - The Re-emergence of an Old Threat |
| 2006 | Peter J. Sadler, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland (Dick Elder host) The Chemical Elements of Life and Medicines: A Web of Health? |
| 2005 | Norbert Jakubowski, Institute for Analytical Sciences, Dortmund & Berlin, Germany (Joe Caruso host) Instrumental Developments for Analytical Atomic Spectroscopy |
| 2004 | Cornelia Bohne, University of Victoria, BC, Canada (Anna Gudmundsdottir host) Dynamics in Supramolecular Chemistry: How can we understand function and complexity |
| 2003 | Gunther Wittstock, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany (Bill Heineman host) Patterned Organic Thin Films: Reactivity Imaging from Micrometer towards Nanometer Size Regimes with Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy |