Eva Wille, Vice President and Executive Director for Global Chemistry,
Wiley-VCH, has been awarded the 2013 Carl Duisberg Medal by Gesellschaft
Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh), the German Chemical Society, the leading
continental European chemical society.
The Carl Duisberg Medal is awarded by the GDCh board to a chemist who
has contributed to advancing chemistry and the objectives of the GDCh.
Wille is being honored for her outstanding service to scientific
publishing including her involvement in the founding of the journal
Chemistry-A European Journal in 1995. Additionally, she was recognized
for consolidating 14 traditional national chemistry society journals
into ten new pioneering and uniquely successful European journals with
authors and readership from around the globe. She was also instrumental
in founding and growing the ChemPubSoc Europe (CPSE) consortium, an
organization of sixteen European chemical societies, which owns these
journals and in launching ChemistryViews.org, an online portal for the
global chemistry community. A similar organization, Asian Chemical
Editorial Society (ACES), was launched with GDCh support in 2005 and has
grown to encompass thirteen Asian chemical societies, under her
management.
“I would like to thank the board of GDCh for this high and unexpected
honor,” said Wille. “Innovative high quality publishing serving the
chemical communities and beyond has been my leading mission since my
start in marketing and even more in my publishing director roles for
books and journals. I’m grateful to have had an excellent group of
colleagues from all over the world who share my visions and made our
success possible.”
“I would like to congratulate Eva for receiving this prestigious award,”
said Steve Miron, Senior Vice President, Scientific, Technical, Medical
and Scholarly, Wiley. “For many years Eva has played a key role in
making Wiley-VCH one of the world’s leading publishers of chemistry
journals. I am very pleased she is being honored by the German Chemical
Society for her achievements.”
Wille joined VCH-Verlagsgesellschaft (now Wiley-VCH) in 1985. She
studied chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where
she received her PhD in 1983 for work supervised by Gerhard Binsch and
held various lecturing positions; she performed her postdoctoral work
with Dieter Ziessow at the Technische Universität Berlin. Since 1988 she
has been part of the management of the company which expanded its STMS
publishing program vastly during her leadership. Wille is a board member
of many professional bodies, including the Deutsche Fachpresse (German
Business Media), where she served as Chair from 2006 to 2009.
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