Ilan Marek, born in 1963 in Haifa, Israel, was educated in France and received his Ph.D. from the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris in 1988 under the joint supervision of Jean F. Normant, Alexandre Alexakis, and Pierre Mangeney. After a postdoctoral period at Louvain (Belgium) with Leon Ghosez, he worked at the CNRS.
After his Habilitation in 1995, he moved in 1997 to the Technion, Haifa, where since 2005, he holds the Sir Michael and Lady Sobell Academic Chair.
He is married to Cecile and father to Eitan, Alon and Naomi.
Curriculum Vitae:
- Academic Degrees
- Academic Appointments
- Awards and Honors
- National and International Administrative Posts
- Technion Activities
- Teaching Experience:
- Plenary and Invited Lectures:
- Plenary and Invited Lectures in International Conferences
- Contributed International Lectures
- International Departmental Seminars
- Lectures at National Meetings
- Participation in Organizing Conferences
- Membership in Professional Societies
Academic Degrees
1995 - Habilitation
1988 - Ph.D. Thesis from Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
1986 - M.Sc., Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Academic Appointments
2007/10 - Visiting Professor Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
2006/3 - 2006/7 - Visiting Professor University de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2005 - Holder of the Sir Michael and Lady Sobell Academic Chair.
2004 - Full Professor, Department of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
2000 - Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (tenured position)
1997 - Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
1990 - Research Position as Charge de Recherche at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). Universite Pierre-et-Marie Curie, Paris, France
1989 - Post-Doctoral Position in Professor Ghosez Laboratory (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
Awards and Honors
2007 - Schulich Award for Excellence in Teaching
2005 - Bessel Award of the Humboldt Foundation
2004 - Merck Sharpe and Dohm Lecturer
2003 - Prize for Excellent Young Chemist, The Israel Chemical Society
2002 - Elected as Excellent Teacher (top 5% of the Technion, 1st semester)
2002 - Michael Bruno Memorial Award 2002, administered by the Rotschild Foundation
2002 - Salomon Simon Mani Award for Excellence in Teaching
2000 - Elected as Excellent Teacher (2nd semester)
2000 - Yosefa and Leonid Allschwang award, administered by the Israel Science Foundation
2000 - Klein Award for the Development of Environmentally Safe Synthetic Methods
1999 - Elected as Excellent Teacher (2nd semester)
1998 - Henry Gutwirth Foundation Award
1998 - Evelyn and Salman Grand Academic Lectureship-USA
1998 - Yigal Alon Fellowship
1997 - Lawrence G. Horowitz Career Development Chair
1997 - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Visiting Professor Award
1997 - First French Chemical Society-Acros Price for Young Organic Chemist (under 40)
National and International Administrative Posts (in the last 10 years)
2007 to date - Israeli representative at the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EUCHEM) of the Organic Chemistry division
2007 to date - Head of the scientife committee of the French-Israel Foundation (Israeli side)
2007 - 2009 - President of Scientific Committee, European Symposium on Organic Chemistry
2007 to date - Member of Advisory Board, Organic and Biomelecular Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
2007 to date - Member of Advisory Board, Chemical Communications, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
2005 to date - Member of International Scientific Committee, European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC)
2002 - Editor of a special issue of the Israel Journal of Chemistry on Asymmetric Catalysis (Wolf Prize 2001)
Technion Activities
2007 to date - Member of Prises and Awards Committee, Technion
2007 to date - Member of the Library Committee, Technion
2006 - Head of the Schulich Committee for Academic Affairs
2005 - 2006 - Head of the Organic and Inorganic Chemistry Department
2003 - 2004 - Member of the Technion Committee for Evaluation of Students
2003 - 2005 - Member of the Teaching Committee, Department of Chemistry
2002 - 2003 - In charge of Dangerous Chemicals at the Technion
2002 - 2003 - In charge of the Safety at the Chemistry Department
2002 - 2005 - In charge of Relations between Students and the Department of Chemistry
Teaching Experience:
Created Courses (Technion)
1. Organometallic Chemistry in Organic Synthesis (#127727)
Created in March 1998.
Recent applications in organometallic chemistry towards Synthetic Organic Chemistry.
The chemistry of Li, Mg, B, Al, Cu and Zn will be underlined and special emphasis will be
given to configurationally stable and functionalized organometallic derivatives as well as
to carbometalation reactions.
2. Main Group Elements in Organic Synthesis (#127728)
Created in March 1999.
The use of organic molecules having either silicon, tin, nitrogen, sulfur or phosphorus
moieties for synthetic organic transformations will be described in this course.
Basic principles as well as specific reactions will be discussed.
3. Stereoselective Synthesis (#127729)
Created in March 2000.
The course "Stereoselective Synthesis" gives a comprehensive treatment of chemical
transformations in which a new stereocenter is created, i.e., all enantio- and those
diastereo-differentiating reactions which allow the absolute and relative configuration
of a new stereogenic unit to be controlled. A special emphasis will be given to the
diastereoselective and enantioselective creation of carbon-carbon, carbon-hydrogen,
carbon-oxygen and carbon-nitrogen bonds.
4. Organic 1 and Polymers (#124808)
Created in October 2000.
Description of Organic Chemistry, Structural theory of Organic Chemistry, Structures
and formulas in Organic Chemistry, Alkanes, alkenes and alkynes, Reactivity in Organic
Synthesis, Stereochemistry, Nucleophilic substitution and elimination reaction, Alcohols
and carbonyl compounds, Acids and esters, Oxidation and reduction, Organic polymer chemistry,
Polymer notation and nomenclature, Polymer Morphology, Step-Growth polymerizations,
Chain-growth polymerizations.
5. Green Chemistry
Created in March 2000.
This course is a part of a more general course on Chemistry and environment where 6 different
topics are treated. As the status of Chemistry in society has a profound dichotomy of perceptions,
this course is mainly based to the development and discovery of fundamental chemical transformations
that are not harmful to the environment.
6. Retrosynthetic Analysis (#127732)
Created in March 2000.
The main aim of this course is to understand how to disconnect large molecules
into simpler fragments and then to build them according to an established retrosynthetic plan.
7. Experiments of Organic Chemistry Laboratory 1 and 2
All the experiments for undergraduate students in Organic Chemistry laboratory
(Org. lab 1 and 2) were renewed.
Teaching Assessment Results (based on 5 points)
| Semester/Year | Course | Course Grade | Lecturer Grade | |
| 2/1997 | 127716 | 4.88 | 5.0 | |
| 2/1998 | 127728 | 4.81 | 4.97 | |
| 2/1999 | 127729 | 4.78 | 4.94 | |
| 1/2000 | 124808 | 4.45 | 4.98 | |
| 2/2000 | 127728 | 4.89 | 5.0 | |
| 1/2002 | 127727 | 4.94 | 4.86 | |
| 1/2002 | 124808 | 4.78 | 4.74 | |
| 2/2002 | 127729 | 5.0 | 4.94 | |
| 2/2004 | 127109 | 3.88 | 3.94 | |
| 1/2006 | 127729 | 4.56 | 4.49 | |
| 2/2006 | 127727 | 4.59 | 4.52 |
Created Courses (Special)
Organometallic Chemistry, at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (2001, 12 hours)
Organometallic Chemistry, at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (2003, 12 hours)
Organometallic Chemistry, at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (2004, 12 hours)
Asymmetric Synthesis, at TEVA Pharmaceuticals, Israel (2005, 12 hours)
Organometallics in Organic Synthesis, Louvain La Neuve, Belgium (2005, 12 hours)
Organozinc Derivatives in Organic Synthesis, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France (2007, 6 hours)
Plenary and Invited Lectures:
1. 1st European Chemical Society Symposium (Louvain La Neuve, Belgium), 12 to 17 August, 1995.
2. Young Organic Chemists - Workshop on Selective Synthesis (Cost D2, Budapest, Hungary), 16 to 19 September, 1995.
3. 6th IUPAC Congress, (Geneva, Switzerland), 17 to 22 August, 1997.
4. Years of Wolf Prizes, (Jerusalem, Israel), 11 and 12 May, 1998.
5. Concoord-Gecom 1998, (Noirmoutier, France) 24-29 May, 1998.
6. 64th Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, (Bar Ilan University) March 16-17, 1999.
7. 65th Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society (Ben-Gurion University) February 8-9, 2000.
8. Reactivity and Catalysis in Organic Chemistry (Marseille, France) 11-12 May, 2000.
9. 6th International Symposium on Carbanion Chemistry (Marburg, Germany) 28 July - 1 August, 2001.
10. 67th Israel Chemical Society (Jerusalem) January 2002
11. 12th IUPAC Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed towards Organic Synthesis (Toronto, Canada) July 6-10, 2003.
12. 69th Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society (Tel Aviv) February 2-3, 2004
13. ACS Organic Division of the ACS National meeting in Anaheim, USA, March 28-April 1, 2004 in the symposium "Half a Century of Organozirconium Chemistry".
14. Symposium in honor of Mario Bachi (Weizmann Institute of Science) May, 23 2004.
15. 14th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC 14), July 4-8, 2005 Helsinki, Finland
16. XIth NOST Symposium, Goa, India (25-29 October, 2005)
17. 41st EUCHEM Conference on Stereochemistry 2006, Burgenstock, April 22-28, 2006 (Switzerland)
18. Minerva Meeting on Advances and Trends in Organic Synthesis, Weizmann Institute, December 9-12, 2006
19. Keynote Lecture Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society (Tel Aviv) February 6-7, 2007
20. 233nd ACS National Meeting, March 25-29, 2007, Chicago, USA
21. "Organic Chemistry, Present and Future", April, 10-13, 2007, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
22. The Tel Aviv Symposium in organic Chemistry honoring the Sackler Prize in Chemistry, May 14, 2007
23. The 2nd International Conference on Development of New Synthetic Methods and Creation of Functions, August, 7th, 2007 Kyoto, Japan
Contributed International Lectures
10th IUPAC Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Towards Organic Synthesis, OMCOS (Versailles, France) 18-22 July 1999.
11th IUPAC Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Towards Organic Synthesis, OMCOS (Taipei, Taiwan) 22-26 July 2001.
7th International Symposium on Carbanion Chemistry, (Alicante, Spain) 7-11 July, 2004.
International Departmental Seminars
1. Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (Gif/Yvette, France) October 27, 1993
2. Ecole Normale Superieur (Paris, France) June 21, 1994
3. Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) February 2, 1994
4. Chatenay-Malabry University (Chatenay-Malabry, France) May 4, 1995
5. Synthelabo Research Company (Bagneux, France) October 19, 1995
6. Orsay University (Saclay, France) October 24, 1995
7. Ecole Nationale Superieur de Chimie Paris (Paris, France) November 14, 1995
8. Firmenich SA (Geneva, Switzerland) January 18, 1996
9. Geneva University (Geneva, Switzerland) January 19, 1996
10. Namur University (Namur, Belgium) January 25, 1996
11. Ecole Superieur Chimie Industrielle Lyon (Lyon, France) February 22, 1996
12. Pierre et Maris Curie University (Aris, France) April 15, 1996
13. Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) November 28, 1996
14. Rouen University (Rouen, France) December 05, 1996
15. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel) December 18, 1996
16. Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA, Palaiseau, France) April 1, 1997
17. Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan) May 28, 1997
18. Tokyo University (Tokyo, Japan) May 30, 1997
19. Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) June 2, 1997
20. Kyoto Institute of Technology (Kyoto, Japan) June 3, 1997
21. Sankyo Company (Tokyo, Japan) June 4, 1997
22. Tokyo Science University (Tokyo, Japan) June 5, 1997
23. Okayama University (Sapporo, Japan) June 9, 1997
24. Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan) June 10, 1997
25. Tokyo College of Pharmacy (Tokyo, Japan) June 11, 1997
26. Rennes University (Rennes, France) June 25, 1997
27. Frutarom (Haifa, Israel) September 16, 1998
28. Bar Ilan University (Ramat Gan, Israel) November 25, 1998
29. Marburg University (Germany) February 25, 1999
30. Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv, Israel) March 27, 1999
31. Ben-Gurion University (Beer-Sheva) December 6, 1999
32. Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) May 2000
33. Technion- Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa) May 16, 2000
34. Serono Pharmaceutical Research Institute, (Geneva, Switzerland) May 5, 2000
35. Institut fur Organische Chemie der Georg-August-Universitae, Goettingen (Germany) May 8, 2000
36. Institut fur Organische Chemie (Braunschweig, Germany) May 9, 2000
37. Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel) May 24, 2000
38. Ludwig-Maximilian-University, (Munich, Germany) September 19, 2001
39. Ecole Superieure de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand (Clermont-Ferrand, France) February 12, 2002
40. Catholic University of Louvain (Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium) February 16, 2002
41. University of Reims (Reims, France) June 21, 2002
42. Pittsburgh University (Pittsburgh, USA) June 25, 2002
43. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA) June 27, 2002
44. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA) June 28, 2002
45. Boston College (Boston, USA) July 2, 2002
46. Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv, Israel) November 10, 2002
47. University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI, France) February 3, 2003
48. University Paris South (Orsay, France) February 4, 2003
49. Bern University (Bern, Switzerland) February 5, 2003
50. Geneva University (Geneva, Switzerland) February 6, 2003
51. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) October 23, 2003
52. Universidad de Alicante, Spain, October 24, 2003
53. Ludwig-Maximilian-University (Munich, Germany) November 17, 2003.
54. Berkeley University of California (USA) March 23, 2004
55. Pittsburgh University, (Pittsburgh, USA), March 31, 2004
56. Bar-Ilan University (Bar-Ilan, Israel), June 3, 2004
57. University of Leeds (United Kingdom) October 11, 2004
58. University of Sheffield (United Kingdom) October 12, 2004
59. University of Manchester (United Kingdom) October 13, 2004
60. University of York (United Kingdom) October 14, 2004
61. University of Oxford (United Kingdom) October 15, 2004
62. University of Bristol (United Kingdom) October 18, 2004
63. Imperial College, London (United Kingdom), October 19, 2004
64. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, (Haifa, Israel) November 25, 2004
65. Queen's University, Kingston, Canada (February, 8 2005)
66. Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada (February, 11 2005)
67. ETH, Zurich, Switzerland (May, 9 2005)
68. Universite Notre Dame de La Paix, Namur, Belgium (November 22, 2005)
69. Universite Catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium (November 23, 2005)
70. The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, (December 20th, 2005)
71. ENSCP/Institut Curie/ESPCI, Paris France (February 28th, 2006).
72. Merck-Frosst Centre for Therapeutic Research (Kirkland, Canada) May 18th, 2006
73. Mc Gill University (Montreal, Canada) June 16th, 2006
74. Pittsburgh University, (Pittsburgh, USA), June 22, 2006
75. Universite Laval, Quebec (Canada), June 28, 2006
76. Sherbrooke University, (Canada), July 26, 2006
77. Boehringer Ingelheim, Montreal (Canada), August 14, 2006
78. Sanofi-Aventis, Frankfurt (Germany), November 10, 2006
79. Technische Universitaet Berlin, (Germany), May 7, 2007
80. RWTH Aachen (Germany), September 18, 2007
81. Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, (France) October 19, 2007
82. Czech Academy of Science, Prague (Czech Republic) November 26, 2007
83. Institute Catala d'Investigacio Quimica, (Tarragona, Spain), January 11, 2008
84. Ben Gurion University (Beer Sheva, Israel) March 31, 2008
Participation in Organizing Conferences
2008 - Chairman of Schulich Symposium on Asymmetric Catalysis.
2002 - Member of the Organizing Committee of the 68th Israel Chemical Society Meeting.
2000 - Chairman of the First Israel-French Meeting on Catalysis and Organometallic Chemistry. Paris, France.
Membership in Professional Societies
Israel Chemical Society
American Chemical Society
