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Prof. Dr. Hans-Achim Wagenknecht

  • Fritz-Haber-Weg 6

    76131 Karlsruhe/DE

Faculty Award for Excellent Teaching 2018

In 2018 Prof. Wagenknecht won the Faculty Award for Excellent Teaching at KIT.

Curriculum Vitae

About me:

 

Name: Hans-Achim Wagenknecht
Academic Degree: Prof. Dr.
Birthday: 1968 in Pforzheim

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) 
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:

 

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 :

 

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