In 2018 Prof. Wagenknecht won the Faculty Award for Excellent Teaching at KIT.
 
                
             
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In 2018 Prof. Wagenknecht won the Faculty Award for Excellent Teaching at KIT.
| About me: 
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| Name: | Hans-Achim Wagenknecht | 
| Academic Degree: | Prof. Dr. | 
| Birthday: | 1968 in Pforzheim | 
| Scientific Education: 
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| 10/89 - 08/91 | Basic studies of Chemistry, University Freiburg i. Br., Germany | 
| 08/91 | Prediploma | 
| 10/91 - 06/94 | Main studies of Chemistry with focus on Biochemistry | 
| 07/94 - 04/95 | Diploma work, Prof.Dr. Jochen Lehmann Synthesis of unusual glycoside analogs as competitive inhibitors of glycosidases | 
| 05/95 | Diploma | 
| 08/95 - 05/98 | Dissertation, Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Woggon Institute for Organic Chemistry, University Basel, Switzerland Chloroperoxidase - Synthesis of enzyme models and identification of intermediates of the | 
| 05/98 | Promotion | 
| 09/98 - 08/00 | Postdoctorate, Prof. Dr. Jacqueline K. Barton Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA Synthesis of DNA-peptide- and DNA-metal complex-conjugates Modulation of charge transfer in DNA through bound peptides and proteins | 
| Independent Research: 
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| 09/00 - 09/05 | Technical University Munich, Germany Chemistry Department, Prof. Dr. Horst Kessler | 
| 12/03 | Habilitation Investigation of charge transfer in DNA by synthetically modified oligonucleotides | 
| 02/04 | Private Lecturer | 
| 06/05 | Calls for professorships at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg and at the University Regensburg | 
| 10/05 - 09/10 | Professor for Organic Chemistry, University Regensburg | 
| since 10/10 | Professor for Organic Chemistry (Chair), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) | 
| 04/11 - 09/13 | Director, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) | 
| 04/12 - 04/16 | Member of panel "Fachforum Chemie", Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG) | 
| 04/15 - 03/24 | Speaker of Research Training Group 2039 "Molecular architectures for fluorescent cell imaging" | 
| 10/17 - 09/21 | Vice Dean of KIT-Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences | 
| 10/21 - 09/23 | Dean of KIT-Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences | 
| Industrial Experience: 
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| 07/92 - 10/92 | Research placement at Ciba-Geigy AG (now Novartis AG), Basel, Switzerland Dr. Eva Altmann Synthesis of Ca-alkylated arginine and potential leukotriene D4-antagonists | 
| 03/95 - 05/95 | Research placement at Ciba-Geigy AG (now Novartis AG), Basel, Switzerland Dr. Eva Altmann Synthesis of potential inhibitors of the tyrosine kinase c-Src | 
| Awards and Awarded Fellowships : 
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| 09/98 - 02/99 | Postdoctoral fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation | 
| 03/99 - 08/99 | Postdoctoral fellowship of the Novartis foundation | 
| 09/99 - 02/00 | Postdoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Health | 
| 03/00 - 08/00 | Emmy-Noether-fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | 
| 01/01 | Synthesis/Synlett-Journal Award of the Thieme publisher | 
| 12/03 | Award of the Dr.-Otto-Röhm-Gedächtnisstiftung | 
| 09/04 | ORCHEM-Award of the German Chemical Society | 
| 09/05 | Bredereck Award for Bioorganic Chemistry | 
| 10/06 | Grammaticakis-Neumann Award of the Swiss Chemical Society | 
| 04/18 | KIT-Faculty Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching in Organic Chemistry |