Invited Lectures and Conferences

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

• GDCh-Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2021, Germany (Award Lecture)

• Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France

• Organic Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society (SCF), Nantes, France (Keynote Lecture)

• 2^nd International Symposium of Hybrid Catalysis, Nagoya University, Japan

• Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) Synthesis Summer School 2021, Vaeshartelt Castle, The Netherlands

• University of Sheffield, UK

2020

• Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

• Trinational Regiosymposium in the Upper Rhein Region, University of Basel, Switzerland

• Indiana University, USA

• DSM Nutritional Products, Kaiseraugst, Switzerland

• Radboud University, The Netherlands

• Stockholm University, Sweden

• Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany

• University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK

• University of Vienna, Austria

• Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany

2019

• University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK

• Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

• Technische Universität München, Germany

• University of Vienna, Austria

• RSC Heterocyclic and Synthesis Group Symposium, Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK (Plenary Lecture)

   

• Allergan Lectureship, University of California Irvine, USA

• International Conference on Fluorine Chemistry, Himeji, Japan

• 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.