Curriculum Vitae

About me:
Name:	Hans-Achim Wagenknecht
Academic degree:	Prof. Dr.
Birthday:	1968 in Pforzheim
Familiary status :	married, 2 children

School education :
09/75 - 08/79	Basic school Offenburg-Windschläg
09/79 - 08/88	Schillergymnasium Offenburg
05/88	General certificate (Allgemeine Hochschulreife)

Scientific education:
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 catalytic cycle
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:
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)
since 04/15	Speaker of Research Training Group 2039 "Molecular architectures for fluorescent cell imaging"
since 10/17	Vice Dean of KIT-Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences

Industrial experience:
07/92 - 10/92	Research placement at Ciba-Geigy AG (now Novartis AG), Basel, Switzerland Dr. Eva Altmann Synthesis of C_a-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 :
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