Title: ADVENTURES IN NATURAL PRODUCT SYNTHESIS
Professional employment:
Oct 97 – present Full professor (C4) for Organic Chemistry at the University of Tübingen
Oct 94 – Sep 97 Associate Professor (C3) for Organic Chemistry at the University of Halle (Saale)
Sep 93 – Sep 94 Associate Professor (C2) for Organic Chemistry at the University of Braunschweig
Jan 87 – Aug 93 Habilitand / Dozent for Organic Chemistry at the University of Konstanz, Habilitation: July 92 topic: natural product synthesis
Aug 85 – Dec 86 postdoctoral fellow with Prof. S. J. Danishefsky at Yale University (New Haven,
USA) topic: alkaloid synthesis (cephalotaxine studies)
Awards:
1991 DFG-Fellowship (Habilitationsstipendium)
1989 Liebig-Fellowship (Habilitationsstipendium)
1986 Byk-Gulden award
Other activities:
Oct 99 – Sep 04 Dean of study affairs at the University of Tübingen
Feb 99 – Jan 02 Director of the Institut für Organische Chemie at the University of Tübingen
Research interests:
Natural products, molecular design, asymmetric synthesis, cyclization reactions,
organometallic chemistry