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Status | Married, two children |
| 20.02.1969 | Birthday (in Hannover, Germany) |
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| Languages |
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| German | native speaker |
| English | C1, high proficiency |
| Spanish | C1, high proficiency. Exams: C1 (very good), Unicert III (good) |
| French | C1, high proficiency. Exams: C1 (very good), Unicert III (good) |
| Russian | B2, medium proficiency. Exams: B1.1 exam (very good), Unicert Basic (good) |
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| Education |
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| 1988 | Abitur (equiv. A-levels) |
| 1988/89 | Military service |
| 10/1989 – 03/1994 | Student of Chemistry (University of Hannover) |
| 07/1993 – 06/1994 | Diploma in Chemistry (equiv. to MSc), University of Hannover, Diploma Thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, USA, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. D. Seyferth and Prof. H. M. R. Hoffmann, Ph.D, DSc. |
| 07/1994 – 02/1997 | Dr. rer. nat. (equiv. to Ph.D), University of Hannover, Grade: summa cum laude, Supervisor: Prof. H. M. R. Hoffmann, Ph.D, DSc. |
| 05/1997 – 05/1998 | Postdoc at the Chemical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. V. Ley, FRS, Great Britain |
| 06/1998 – 07/2001 | Habilitand (equiv. to Assistant Professor) at the University of Göttingen, Mentor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Armin de Meijere |
| 07/2001 | Habilitation (equiv. to DSc.), University of Göttingen |
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| Professional Career |
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| 09/2001 – 11/2001 | Heisenberg Scientist, University of Göttingen |
| 12/2001 – 03/2002 | Guest Professor, University of Greifswald |
| 04/2002 – 11/2004 | Full Professor (C4) of Bioorganic Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Greifswald |
| 12/2004 – today | Full Professor (C4) of Organic Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of Rostock, Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry |
| 7/2005 – today | Head of the Department of Organic Synthesis of the Leibniz-Institute of Catalysis e.V., University of Rostock |
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| Administrative Positions |
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| University of Greifswald, Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry |
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| 2002 – 2004 | Vice-director of Institute of Biochemistry |
| University of Rostock, Institute of Chemistry |
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| 2004 – today | Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry |
| 2006 – 2008 | Vice-director of the Institute, Head of committee of examinations |
| 2008 – 2010 | Member of the Academic Council of the University |
| 2014 – 2016 | Vice-director of the Institute, Head of committee of examinations |
| 2016 – 2022 | Director of the Institute |
| 2022 – today | Vice-director of the Institute |
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| Contributions to Research and Graduate Education |
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| Scientific interests | One-pot-cyclizations, domino reactions, homogeneous catalysis directed towards organic synthesis, organosilicon chemistry, heterocycles, medicinal chemistry (new antibiotics and anti-cancer agents), natural products, carbohydrates, new materials |
| Publications | > 780 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals |
| Ph.D theses | > 100 Ph.D theses supervised |
| M.Sc theses | > 100 M.Sc theses supervised |
| B.Sc theses | > 40 B.Sc theses supervised |
| International collaboration | Scientific supervision of > 200 foreign Ph.D students, guest students and guest scientists |
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| Awards and Scholarships |
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| 1992 – 1994 | Study Scholarship of the German National Fellowship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) |
| 1995 – 1996 | Ph.D Scholarship (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie) |
| 1997 | Award of the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Hannover |
| 1997/98 | Feodor-Lynen-scholarship (Alexander-von-Humboldt foundation) |
| 1990 – 2001 | Liebig-scholarship (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie) |
| 2000 | Thieme-Journal-Award |
| 2001 | Heisenberg-scholarship (DFG) |
| 2010 | Gold medal of Yerevan State University (YSU) presented by the rector of YSU |
| 2011 | Honorary Doctor (Dr. h.c.) of Yerevan State University (Republic of Armenia) |
| 2012 | Honorary Doctor (Dr. h.c.) of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (Vietnam) |
| 2012 | Honorary Professor (Prof. h.c.) of the University of Mosul (Iraq) |
| 2012 | Honorary Doctor (Dr. h.c.) of the Tishreen University, Lattakia (Syria) |
| 2013 | Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Science |
| 2013 | Patron's (President of Pakistan) Gold Medal awarded by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) |
| 2013 | Honorary Doctor (Dr. h.c.) of the University of Debrecen (Hungary) |
| 2013 | Honorary Doctor (Dr. h.c.) of the Research Institute of New Chemical Technologies and Materials of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Almaty (Kazakhstan) |
| 2014 | Honorary Professor (Prof. h.c.) of the University of Granma (Cuba) |
| 2014 | Honorary Professor (Prof. h.c.) of Amity University (India) |
| 2014 | Gold Medal of Yerevan State University (YSU), Republic of Armenia |
| 2014 | Honorary Doctor (Dr. h.c.) of the National Academy of Science of the Republic of Armenia |
| 2014 | Gold Medal of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Almaty (Kazakhstan) |
| 2014 | Honorary Doctor (Dr. h.c.) of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Almaty (Kazakhstan) |
| 2015 | Civil award 'Sitara-i-Quaid-i-Azam' by the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan |
| 2015 | Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia |
| 2015 | Honorary member of the Society of Organic Chemistry of Argentina |
| 2017 | Honorary Doctor (Dr. h.c.) of Amity University (India) |
| 2021 | Honorary Doctor (Dr. h.c.) of University of Granma (Kuba) |
| 2022 | Honorary Doctor (Dr. h.c.) of the Institute of Single Crystals of the Academy of Science of Ukraine (Charkov) |
| 2023 | National Award of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba 2022 (Premio Nacional de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba 2022) |
