Jörg Matysik

Jörg Matysik is born in Essen (Germany). Initially, Matysik went for vocational training as Chemielaborant in the Bergbau-Forschung (Institute for Coal Mining Research) in Essen-Kray (Steinkohlenbergbau-Verein). 1986/87 he was volunteer of "Aktion Sühnezeichen" and worked in an Old-age home "Beth Achwa" in Tel-Aviv Yad-Eliyahu.

Then he studied Chemistry at the Universität-Gesamthochschule Essen where he obtained his Chemie-Diplom (1992) in the group of Prof. Bernhard Schrader, working with infrared and Raman spectroscopy on tetrapyrroles.

During his studies, he went for an exchange semester to the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Sept. 1990 - Feb. 1991) during German unification.

For his PhD (1995) he investigated the photoreceptor phytochrome with FT-Raman spectroscopy at the Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie (radiation chemistry) in Mülheim an der Ruhr in the group of Prof. Peter Hildebrandt in the department headed by Prof. Kurt Schaffner.

As JSPS and Humboldt fellow he worked with Raman spectroscopy on heme proteins in Prof. Teizo Kitagawa’s group at the Insitute for Molecular Sciences in Okazaki (Japan). From 1997 to 2012, he has been at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry. Initially he joined as Marie-Curie fellow and Casimir-Ziegler awardee the solid-state NMR sub-group of Prof. Huub J.M. de Groot belonging to the bio-organic photochemistry group of Prof. Johan Lugtenburg, and became later assistant professor (universitair docent, UD) at that institute.

Since January 2013, he is full professor of analytical chemistry and molecular spectroscopy at the University of Leipzig. 

Matysik is a recipient of the Jonge Chemici award (2001) and the Vidi award (2003) of the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO). He is member of the International Spin-Chemistry Committee and Associate editor of the journal "Applied Magnetic Resonance". He was chair of COST action TD1103 on spin-hyperpolarization techniques in magnetic resonance (2013-2015).

Since 2013, he has a chair of Molecular Spectroscopy, is director of the Institute of Analytical Chemistry and head of the Aufbaustudium "Analytik & Spektroskopie" at the University of Leipzig.

He is chair of the Fachgruppe Magnetic Resonance (FGMR) of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) from 2021 to 2024, member of Committee of the Groupment AMPERE (since 2021), and counselor of the National Research Data Infrastructure consortium Chemistry (NFDI4Chem) since 2021. 

In 2023, he was elected as Speaker of the Collaborative Reserach Center (CRC) Transregio-386 "HYP*MOL" Leipzig/Chemnitz.

Matysik had the great honour to be a founding member of the Network of Dutch scientists in Germany which has been opened at the Royal Dutch Embassy in Berlin at 26 Oct. 2023.