Author Profile (Angewandte Chemie)
Education and Professional Experience
1983 Studies in Chemistry, Goethe University, Frankfurt
1985 Ph.D., Goethe Universität Frankfurt (with G. Quinkert)
1986 - 1988 Postdoc, Princeton University (with M. F. Semmelhack)
1988 - 1993 Junior Research Group Leader, Goethe-University Frankfurt
1994 - 1999 Professor (C3) of Organic Chemistry, TU-Berlin
1999 - today Full Professor (C4) of Organic Chemistry, University of Cologne
Major additional services
2004 - 2005 Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne
2005 - 2007 Vice-Dean oft the Science Faculty, University of Cologne
2007 – 2011 Dean of the Science Faculty, University of Cologne
2013 - 2017 Director of the Chemistry Department, University of Cologne
2012 - today Member of the Chemistry Board of the German Science Foundation
2016 - today Board Member of GDCh (German Chemical Society)
2016 - today Chairman of the Chemical Education Section of GDCh
Selected Other Activities
1998 - 1999 Chairman of the Berlin Section of the GDCh
2003 - 2012 Member of the Forster Committee of the A. v. Humboldt Foundation
2005 - 2007 President of ECTNA (Europ. Chem. Thematic Network Association)
2006 Chairman of the 15th ORCHEM Conference, Bad Nauheim
2012 - today Local Coordinator of SusChemSys (a regional research network)
2017 Chairman of the ESOC Conference in Cologne
Awards
1986 - 1989 Liebig Postdoctoral Fellowship (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie)
1998 Teaching Champion, TU-Berlin
2001 Visiting Professor, University of Firenze, Italy,
2006 + 2016 Albertus-Magnus Teaching Award, University of Cologne
Main Research Areas
• Stereoselective Synthesis of Natural Products and Bioactive Analogs
• Enantioselective Transition Metal Catalysis and Ligand Development
• Chiral Transition Metal π-Complexes
• Bio-Organometallic Chemistry (incl. CO-Releasing Molecules)
• Small Molecule Inhibitors of Protein-Protein Interactions