Scientific and Professional Career
| January 15 2003 to present | Universitätsprofessor (C4) (Full Professor), KIT, Germany |
| August 2002 | Offered a C4-Professorship to the University of Karlsruhe, Germany (Lehrstuhl I Organische Chemie, successor of H.-J. Knölker) |
| July 2001 - January 2003 | Professor at the University of Bonn, Germany |
| February 2001 | Offered a chair for organic chemistry at the Vrieje University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Successor of L. Wessjohann), declined |
| February 2001 | Offered a C3-Professorship to the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany (Successor of H. Mayr), declined |
| April 2001 | Offered a C3-Professorship to the University of Bonn, Germany (Successor of E. Steckhan) |
| October 1997 - June 2001 | Habilitation (lecturer), RWTH Aachen, Germany, Prof. D. Enders |
| May 1996 - September 1997 | Postdoctoral fellowship, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA, Prof. K. C. Nicolaou (Total synthesis of vancomycin) |
| December 1995 - February 1996 | Postdoctoral fellowship, University of Uppsala, Sweden, Prof. J.-E. Bäckvall |
| November 9 1995 | Dissertation (Prof. A. de Meijere), Göttingen, Germany, summa cum laude |
| April - June 1993 | Faculté des Sciences de St. Jerôme, Marseille, France, Prof. Dr. B. Waegell |
| October 23 1992 | Diplomhauptprüfung, Prof. de Meijere, Göttingen, Germany |
| October 1988 - October 1992 | Chemistry studies at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany and University College of North Wales, Bangor, United Kingdom |
Academia
| October 2003 to September 2004 | Head of Department, Institut für Organische Chemie, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany |
| October 2004 to October 2005 | Deputy chairman Karlsruher Chemische Gesellschaft of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker |
| November 2004 to September 2007 | „Vertrauensdozent Lehramt Chemie“ of the University of Karlsruhe |
| April 2005 to September 2007 | Vice dean chemistry and dean for research, faculty of chemistry and biosciences, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) |
| June 2006 to September 2007 | Member of Council for Research and Promotion of Young Scientists (CRYS), Universität Karlsruhe (TH) |
| January 2007 to September 2007 | Member, Steering comitee “research”, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) |
| October 2007 to September 2011 | Dean, faculty of chemistry and biosciences, KIT |
| Since October 2007 | “Vertrauensdozent der DFG”, KIT |
| Since April 2008 | Elected member of the “Fachkollegium DFG Organische Molekülchemie 301-2“ |
| Since Jauary 2011 | Chairmen, MBA-PhD program "Science & Management", KIT |
Stipends and Awards
| February 2009 | ISCB ABAWR FOR EXCELLENCE 2009 in the area of Chemical Science (International Category) |
| February 2009 | Honorary Fellow Indian Scociety of Chemists and Biologists |
| September - December 2002 | Margaret L. Goering and Harlan L. Goering Visiting Professor in Organic Chemistry, Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
| July 2001 | Lilly Lecture Award |
| September 2000 | ORCHEM prize for Naturwissenschaftler |
| December 1995 | Richard-Zsigmondy prize |
| October 1999 - October 2001 | DFG-Habilitations-Stipendium |
| October 1997 - October 1999 | Liebig stipend of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie |
| September 1996 - October 1997 | Stipend of DAAD/NATO |
| December 1995 - February 1996 | Stipend of the Swedish ARC |
| April - June 1993 | PROCOPE/ARNT grant (DAAD) |
| July 1993 - June 1995 | Graduate stipend of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie |
Board Memberships
- Invited Member “Faculty of 1000” (since 2001)
- Co-Founder and Member of the Board of Cynora GmbH (Karlsruhe, Germany) (2002-2011)
- International Advisory Board “ESPRC” (United Kingdom) (since 2003)
- Editorial Advisory Board “Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry” (2003-2010)
- Editorial Advisory Board “ACS Combinatorial Sciences” (since 2011)
- Editorial Advisory Board “Current Chemical Biology” (since 2007)
- German representatives of the EuCheMS Division for Organic Chemistry (since 2007)
- Board Member “POF-II” KIT “Biointerfaces” (since 2008); Director of the “KIT Combinatorial Chemistry Platform”
- Editorial Board “Letters in Organic Chemistry” (since 2008)
- Advisory Editorial Board “The Open Bioactive Compounds Journal” (since 2008)
- Editorial Board “Current Drug Discovery Technologies” (since 2008)
- Editorial Board “Indian Journal of Chemistry, B”
- Co-Founder of Cyenic GbR (Karlsruhe, Germany) (since 2008)
Advisory duties
- Advisory for Lundbeck (Copenhagen) (not active)
- Advisory for DSM (Kaiseraugst)
- Advisory for Cynora (Herzogenrath)
Publications
Around 300 publications; 160 independent refered articles; H factor 36
Ca. 15 invited international conference lectures and more than 100 other lectures
Referee
Angew. Chemie (Reviews, Articles, Highlights); Chem. Eur. J.; Synlett; Org. Lett.; J. Comb. Chem.; J. Am. Chem. Soc.; J. Org. Chem.; Collec. Czech. Chem. Commun.; Organometallics; Synthesis; Chimica Oggi; Bioorg. Med. Chem.; New Journal Chem.; Chemistry & Biology; Tetrahedron; Tetrahedron Lett.; Bull. Soc. Chim. Jap.
American Chemical Society: Petroleum Funds
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (non-elected referee and since 2008 Fachkollegium 301)
Scientific Memberships
Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte (since 1987); Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (since 1992) Liebig-Vereinigung and Fachgruppe Medizinische Chemie; American Chemical Society (since 1993); European Chemical Society (since 1998); American Association of the Advancement of Science (since 1999); European Society of Combinatorial Sciences (ESCS) (since 1999); DeChema (since 2005)
Memberships in Collaborative Groups
Member SFB 380 (discontinued), SFB 624 (discontinued), GRK 804 (discontinued), CFN (KIT), SFB/TR 88 (KIT), Steering Comittee, Schwerpunktprogramm "Organokatalyse", Helmholtz-Program "Biointerfaces" (KIT), Steering Comittee
Memberships
IUPAC Project 2003-044-1-700 Glossary of Combinatorial Chemistry Terms (Arun Ganesan)
Overview of Research Interests
- asymmetric syntheses
- new methods for combinatorial chemistry: biologically active compounds and catalysis
- synthesis of natural products (on solid supports): THC, Secalonic Acids
- functionalized nano-structures
