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Matthias Tamm was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1967 and studied chemistry at the Technische Universität Berlin, where he received his PhD in 1992 under the supervision of F. Ekkehardt Hahn. After spending one year as a Visiting Research Scientist at DuPont Central Research and Development, DE, USA with Anthony J. Arduengo, III, he returned to Germany in 1994 to complete his Habilitation in Berlin and Münster. Tamm was appointed to Privatdozent at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in 1999 and held a temporary professorship at the Technische Universität München from 2002 to 2005. He then moved to the Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig in 2005 to become full professor of inorganic chemistry. In 2009, he was offered a full professorship at the Freie Universität Berlin, which he declined. His research interests lie in the areas of preparative organometallic chemistry and coordination chemistry with an emphasis on the development of novel, unusual ligand systems and on the application of their transition metal complexes in homogeneous catalysis, organic synthesis and materials science.
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