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 Carsten Bolm

   Dr. rer. nat., Professor of Organic Chemistry

Institut für Organische Chemie
RWTH Aachen University 
Landoltweg 1 
D-52056 Aachen, Germany 

Tel.: + 49 241-80 94 675 
FAX : + 49 241-80 92 391 

e-mail: Carsten [dot] Bolm [at] oc [dot] RWTH-Aachen [dot] de

 

 

 

 

Curriculum vitae:  download as PDF

 

03/1960            born in Braunschweig, Germany
1978 - 1984 TH Braunschweig (undergraduate studies in chemistry)
1983 - 1984 University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
09/1984 Graduation: 'Master of Science, Chemistry' (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA; Prof. Dr. H. -J. Reich)
12/1984 Graduation: 'Diplom-Chemiker-Hauptprüfung' (TH Braunschweig, Germany; Prof. Dr. H. Hopf)
1985 - 1987 PhD work at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany(Prof. Dr. M. T. Reetz)
07/1987 Graduation: 'Dr. rer. nat.' (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany; Prof. Dr. M. T. Reetz)
1987 - 1988 Postdoctoral studies (M.I.T., Cambridge, USA; Prof. Dr. K. B. Sharpless)
1988 - 1993 Habilitation (TU Darmstadt, Germany, and Universität Basel, Switzerland; with Prof. Dr. B. Giese) 
1993 Offers for C3-faculty positions at the Universities in Würzburg (declined), Hannover (declined), and Marburg
10/1993 Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
03/1996 Chair and Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the RWTH Aachen University/Germany
02/2000 Offer for a Chair and Full Professorship at the University in Freiburg, Germany (declined)
08/2005 Offer for a Chair and Full Professorship at the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg, Germany (declined)
04/2006 W3 Professor (Chair and Full Professorship) at the RWTH Aachen University/Germany


 

Stipend and Awards


1983-1984 Fulbright-stipend
1985-1987 Kekulé-stipend ('Fonds der Chemischen Industrie and Volkswagen-Foundation')
1987-1988 Nato-stipend of the DAAD ('German Akademic Exchange Service')
1988-1990 Liebig-stipend given by the 'Fonds der Chemischen Industrie'
1990-1992 Treubel-Fonds stipend ('Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft, Basel')
06/1991 Heinz-Meier-Leibnitz-award given by the 'Federal Secretary for Education and Science', Germany
03/1992 ADUC-Jahrespreis 1992 für Habilitanden (award) given by the 'Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Lehrstuhlinhaber von Unterrichtsinstituten für Chemie', Germany
02/1993 Dozenten-Stipendium (award) given by the "Verband der Chemischen Industrie", Germany
11/1993 Jahrespreis für Chemie (award) given by the "Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen"
12/1996 Otto-Klung-award 1996
12/1998 Otto-Bayer-award
10/2002 AstraZeneca European Lecturer
09/2003 Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
07/2006 Prix Franco-Allemand /French-German Price) by the Société Francaise de Chimie
11/2007 CaRLa Fellow at the University of Heidelberg in collaboration with BASF
05/2011 Boehringer Ingelheim Lecturer (Canada)

 


Visiting Professorships


09-12/1992 Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
03/1998 Invited Visiting Professorship at the 'Université Pierre et Marie Curie' in Paris, France
02/2000 Invited Visiting Professorship at the 'Università di Firenze' in Florence, Italy
02/2002 Invited Visiting Professorship at the 'Università degli studi di Milano' in Milan, Italy
2002 - 2003 Professeur Visiteur at the Département de Chimie of the University 'Notre-Dame De La Paix' in Namur, Belgium
10/2006 Invited Visiting Professorship at the Tokyo University of Science, Japan


 

Research Interest


  • Asymmetric metal catalysis

  • (Asymmetric) Synthesis with organometallic reagents

  • Organocatalysis

 

Journals


1998 - 2002 Member of the International Advisory Editorial Board of New Journal of Chemistry
1999 - 2008 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Synthesis
2000 - 2008 Member of the Honorary Advisory Board of Synlett
2001 - Member of the Academic Advisory Board of Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis
2003 - Member of the Board of Consulting Editors of Tetrahedron Letters
2003 - Member of the Board of Consulting Editors of Tetrahedron
2003 - Member of the Editorial Board of Letters in Organic Chemistry
2003 - Commissioning Editor of Chemical Society Reviews
2005 - Member of the Editorial Board of Chemical Reviews
2005 - 2007 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Organic Chemistry
2005 - Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
2007 - Member of the Editorial Board of Current Chemical Biology
2008 - Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Organic Letters
2008 - Member of the Editorial Board of Catalysis Communications
2008 -

 Associate Editor for Journal of Organic Chemistry
"Posted with permission from Excellence, 2(1), Spring 2008, 16.Copyright 2008 American Chemical Society":

2009 - Member of the Advisory Board of Synthesis and Synlett
2009 - Member of the Advisory Board of Molbank
2011 - Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of The All Results Journal


 

Other (selected) activities


1998 - 2001 Member of the DAAD selection commitee for "Doktorandenstipendien"
2002 - 2009 Member of the DAAD selection commitee in the "Postdoc Programm"
2002 - 2007 Member of the DFG senate commission for the selection of graduate colleagues ["Senats- and Bewilligungsausschuss für die Graduiertenkollegs" of the German Science Foundation (DFG)]
1998 - Member of the "Beirat Technologietransfer und Arbeitskreis Technologietransfer RWTH-IHK"
2000 - Member of the Management Committee of the COST-Action D24 "Sustainable chemical processes: Stereoselective transition-metal catalyzed reactions"
2001 - Member of the International Scientific Committee of ESOC (European Symposium on Organic Chemistry)
2001 - 2005 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Leibniz-Institute for Organic Catalysis at the University of Rostock (Vorsitz des "Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des Leibnitz-Institutes für Katalyse an der Universität Rostock e.V.")
2003 - Member of the International Advisory Committee of ICHAC (International Conferrence on Heteroatom Chemistry)
2006 - Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Leibniz-Institute for Organic Catalysis at the University of Rostock (Vorsitz des "Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des Leibniz-Instituts für Katalyse an der Universität Rostock e.V.")
2002 - 2006 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of DEGUSSA Fine Chemicals
2002 - 2004 Member of the Senate of the RWTH Aachen University
2003 - 2007 Head of the "DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1118"
2006 - 2008 Member of the GDCh Selection Committee for the "August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Denkmünze"
2006 - 2008 Chairman of the Department of Chemistry (RWTH Aachen University)
2007 - Member of the advisory board "Research and Education Politics" from the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI)
2008 - Rectorate Appointee for the Collaboration with Korea
2009 - Member of the "Perspectives Commission" of the GDCh
2009 - Member of the "Kuratorium des Fonds der Chemischen Industrie"
2010 - Member of the Pre-Selection Committee - Nothern Germany for the DSM Science & Technology Awards


 

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