Curriculum Vitae

• Born May 9, 1949, Helmbrechts, Bavaria, Germany
• Chemistry Undergraduate, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 1970 - 1975
• Diploma and PhD Thesis with Prof. R. Huisgen, Diazoalkane Cycloadditions PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) 1978
• Postdoctoral Work 1978 - 1979 with Prof. E. Piers, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Synthesis and Rearrangement of Divinylcyclopropanes
• Liebig and DFG Fellow, Universität Würzburg, Prof. S. Hünig, Investigation of Donor-Acceptor-Substituted Cyclopropanes, Habilitation 1984
• Privatdozent, Universität Würzburg 1984 - 1986
• Associate Professor, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt 1986 - 1993
• Full Professor positions offered at Dresden, Dortmund and Hamburg
• Full Professor, Technische Universität Dresden 1993 - 1999
• Full Professor, Freie Universität Berlin 1999-2015
• Retired Professor, Freie Universität Berlin since April 2015

Awards

• Heisenberg-Fellowship 1984 - 1986
• Winnacker-Fellowship (Hoechst AG) 1985 - 1989
• Member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Bavarian Academy of Science and Humanities) since 2012
• Liebig Memorial Medal of the GDCh (German Chemical Society) in 2014

Functions

• Initiator, spokesman and member of the Graduiertenkolleg (Research Training Center) "Struktur-Eigenschafts-Beziehungen bei Heterocyclen", at the Technische Universität Dresden, 1994 - 2000
• Member of the editorial board of "Liebigs Annalen" and subsequently the advisory editorial board of "European Journal of Organic Chemistry" from 1995 to 2008
• Member of the Grants Committee on Research Training Groups (Graduiertenkollegs) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft from 1996 to 2001
• Elected referee for Organic Chemistry of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft from 1996 to 2004
• Head of the Chemistry Department from April 2003 to March 2007
• Chairman of the selection committee for the Klung-Wilhelmy-Wissenschafts-Preis for Chemistry from 2004 to 2014
• Chair of the committee for the Joint German-Swiss Meeting On Medicinal Chemistry, March 18-21, 2007, Berlin, Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry
• Member of the Grants Committee on Collaborative Research Centres (SFB) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft from 2008 to 2010
• Dean of the Department of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy from April 2011 to October 2013
• Member of the board of Liebig-Vereinigung from 2012 to 2015
• Member of the Selection Committee of Feodor Lynen Research Fellows to German Scientists of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation since April 2013

Memberships

• Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (German Chemical Society)
• Liebig-Vereinigung
• Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte e.V. / German Association for the Advancement of Science and Medicine