

Curriculum Vitae
10/2018 - 10/2019 Managing director of the Institute for Organic Chemistry,
WWU Münster, Germanysince 11/2016 Chair of Organic Chemistry & CiM Professor of Chemical Biology
Organisch-Chemisches Institut, WWU Münster, Germany.10/2012 CiMIC Professor of Chemical Biology & Professor of Organic Chemistry
Organisch-Chemisches Institut, WWU Münster, Germany.2008 - 2012 Alfred Werner Assistant Professor of Synthetic Organic Chemistry,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland.2007 - 2008 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland,
Research Advisor: Professor Dr Peter H. Seeberger.2006 - 2007 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr,
Germany, Research Advisor: Professor Dr Alois Fürstner.2002 - 2006 Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, University Chemical Laboratory and Clare College,
University of Cambridge, UK, Research advisor: Professor Dr Andrew B. Holmes FRS.1998 - 2002 M.Chem. (Hons) First Class, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, UK,
Masters degree in "Chemistry with Advanced Chemistry".
Awards and Honours
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2023 WWU Münster Research Prize / Forschungspreis
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2023-2027 Editorial Advisory Board Member, ChemistryEurope
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2023-2027 Editorial Advisory Board Member, European Journal of Organic Chemistry
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2022 Henriette Herz Scout of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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2021-2022 Global Fellow, University of St Andrews, UK
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SYNTHESIS Best Paper Award 2021
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2021 Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (CorrFRSE)
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2021 German Chemical Society Fluorine Publication Prize / GDCh Publikationspreis Fluorchemie
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2020-2021 Prof. David Ginsburg Lecturer, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
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2019-2021 Editorial Advisory Board Member, Chemical Science.
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2019-2021 Visiting Professor, University of Strathclyde, UK
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2019 Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching "Goldener Brendel"
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2019 Allergan Lectureship, University of California Irvine, USA
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2019 ERC Consolidator Grant
- 2018 Elected to the Research Council (Forschungsbeirat) of the WWU Münster
- 2017-2022 Elected to the Kinetics & Reaction Mechanisms section of ProcessNet, DECHEMA
- 2016-2018 Visiting Professor, University of Strathclyde, UK
- 2015 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2013 ERC Starter Grant
- 2011 Ruzicka Prize of the ETH Zürich
- 2011 JSP Fellowship, 46th Bürgenstock Conference
- 2009 Thieme Journal Award
- 2007 Alfred Werner Assistant Professorship
- 2006 Membership of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2002 Organon Prize for Biological Chemistry
- 2000 CIBA Scholarship for Organic Chemistry
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Invited Lectures and Conferences
2023
- International Conference on Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry (ICHIC-2023), Stockholm, Sweden
- International Conference on Photochemical Technology and Industry (ICPTI-2023), Wuhan, China
- Glycobasque 6, CIC biomaGUNE and CIC bioGUNE, Bilbao, Spain
- Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany
- University of St Andrews, UK
2022
- École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
- ACS National Meeting Fall 2022 “Synthetic Methods in Fluorine Chemistry”, Chicago, USA
- 3rd International Symposium of Hybrid Catalysis, Nagoya University, Japan
- Fall meeting of the Organic Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France (Plenary Lecture)
- 28th Congress of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry (ISHC), Santa Barbara, USA (Plenary Lecture)
- University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
- Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium 2022, Rüdesheim, Germany.
- 20th European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, Berlin, Germany (Keynote Lecture)
- Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
- 2022 Barluenga Lectureship Series, Oviedo, Spain
2021
- Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
- International Symposium on Fluorine-Specific Interactions, Berlin, Germany
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GDCh-Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2021, Germany (Award Lecture)
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Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
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Organic Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society (SCF), Nantes, France (Keynote Lecture)
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2nd International Symposium of Hybrid Catalysis, Nagoya University, Japan
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Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) Synthesis Summer School 2021, Vaeshartelt Castle, The Netherlands
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University of Sheffield, UK
2020
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Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
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Trinational Regiosymposium in the Upper Rhein Region, University of Basel, Switzerland
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Indiana University, USA
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DSM Nutritional Products, Kaiseraugst, Switzerland
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Radboud University, The Netherlands
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Stockholm University, Sweden
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Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
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University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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University of Vienna, Austria
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Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
2019
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University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
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Technische Universität München, Germany
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University of Vienna, Austria
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RSC Heterocyclic and Synthesis Group Symposium, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK (Plenary Lecture)
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Allergan Lectureship, University of California Irvine, USA
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International Conference on Fluorine Chemistry, Himeji, Japan
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Spring ACS National Meeting in Orlando, Florida, USA
- Physical Organic Chemistry Meeting, Bad Honnef, Germany: "Physical Organic Chemistry: Recent developments in instrumentation, structure, theory, and mechanisms."
2018
- Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Summer School "Advanced Organocatalysis", Cologne, Germany
- Carbohydrate and Fluorine Symposium, Université de Poitiers, France
- 4th International Symposium on Middle Molecular Strategy (ISMMS-4), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- ACS Publications Forum: Diversity in Inorganic/Organic Chemistry in Europe, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany (GDCh Lecture)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Core to Core Symposium, Münster, Germany
- Bayer AG, Berlin, Germany
- RWTH Aachen, Germany
- 22nd International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, Oxford, UK
- SCI Organofluorine Chemistry: Synthetic Methods and Applications, London, UK
- University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
2017
- Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
- Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
- ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain
- EFMC International Symposium on Advances in Synthetic & Medicinal Chemistry, Vienna, Austria
- IMSAT-Tagung 2017, Goslar, Germany
2016
- University of Strathclyde, UK
- University of Glasgow, UK
- AstraZeneca, Mölndal, Sweden
- Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Novartis AG, Basel, Switzerland
- University of Regensburg, Germany
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
- Excellence Cluster, Cells in Motion Seminar, WWU Münster, Germany
- University of Barcelona, Spain
- 20. ORCHEM Conference, Weimar, Germany (Plenary lecture)
2015
- Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Berlin, Germany
- Newcastle University, UK
- Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
- University of Basel, Switzerland
- Institut Européen de Chimie et de Biologie (IECB), Bordeaux, France
- Université de Potiers, France
- University of Strathclyde, UK
2014
- CiM Chemical Biology Workshop, Münster, Germany.
- North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, Germany.
- BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
- University of St Andrews, Scotland.
- University of Namur, Belgium.
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.
- Bordeaux Fluorine Days symposium, France.
- A. Corbella Summer School on Organic Synthesis, Gargnano, Italy.
- Syngenta Crop Protection, Jealott’s Hill, UK.
- Process Net-Working Party “Kinetics and Reaction Mechanisms”, Frankfurt, Germany.
2013
- ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain
- University of Cologne, Germany
- ESC CNRS, Caen, France
- Syngenta Symposium “Fluorine in Organic Chemistry”, Stein, Switzerland
- Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
- AstraZeneca, Mölndal, Sweden
- IRTG Meeting, WWU Münster, Germany
2012
- Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München, Germany.
- Fluorine Graduate School Seminar, Berlin, Germany.
- University of Liverpool, UK.
- University of Marburg, Germany.
- Fluorine Graduate School Seminar, Berlin, Germany.
- American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, San Diego, USA.
2011
- University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
- University of Valencia, Spain.
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.
- RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group Meeting, Astra Zeneca, UK (Plenary lecture).
- RSC Fluorine Meeting, University of Aberdeen, UK (keynote speaker).
- Umeå University, Sweden.
- University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
- RSC Fluorine Meeting, University of Aberdeen, UK.
- BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
- Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
- University of Groningen, Netherlands.
- University of Nottingham, UK.
- The 46th Bürgenstock Conference, Brunnen, Switzerland.
- Swiss Young Faculty Meeting, University of Bern, Switzerland.
- Universite Paris XI, France.
- Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI, France.
- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
- University of Durham, UK.
- University of Geneva, Switzerland.
- SCS Syngenta Symposium: Modern Catalysis, Stein, Switzerland.
2010
- Basel Chemical Society Christmas Lecture, University of Basel, Switzerland.
- Novartis AG, Basel, Switzerland.
- AstraZeneca, Mölndal, Sweden. (2 lectures plus a 3 lecture course on organo-fluorine chemistry)
- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Spain.
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Basel, Switzerland.
- Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
2009
- Student Christmas Lecture, ETH Zurich.
- University of Münster, Germany.
- University of Zurich, Switzerland.
- ETH Zurich, Switzerland.