Curriculum Vitae

Scientific and Professional Career

Academia                               

Stipends and Awards

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)
• 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 Advisory Board “Current Bioactive Compounds” (since 2010)
• Editorial Advisory Board “Indian Journal of Chemistry, B” (since 2010)
• Co-Founder of Cyenic GbR (Karlsruhe, Germany) (since 2008)
• Editorial Advisory Board “Organic Chemistry: Current Research” (since 2011)
• Editorial Board “Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry” (since 2012), Associate Editor
• Editorial Board F1000 Research (since 2012)
• Editorial Board Interactive Medicinal Chemistry (since 2013)
• Member of the Carl-Roth prize of the GDCh (since 2013)
• Member of the Advisory Boards of the Institute of Medicine Technology, University of Heidelberg (since 2014)
• Member of the Fachbeirat Digital Hub (since 2020)

Advisory duties

• Advisory for Lundbeck (Copenhagen) (not active)
• Advisory for DSM (Kaiseraugst) (not active)
• Advisory for Cynora (Bruchsal)
• Advisory for Braskem (Pittsburgh) (not active)
• Advisory for Sensient (not active)
• Advisory for Symrise

Publications

Around 600 publications; 500 independent refered articles; H factor 65
Ca. 35 invited international conference lectures and more than 200 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" (discontinued), Helmholtz-Program "Biointerfaces" (KIT), Steering Comittee, SFB 1176, Steering Comitee, Member Cluster 3DMM2O

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