Thomas Carell was born in Herford (Germany) in 1966. He is married and father of three children. His academic career in chemistry began at the Universities of Münster and Heidelberg. In 1993, he obtained his doctorate with Prof. H. A. Staab at the Max-Planck Institute of Medical Research.
After postdoctoral training with Prof. J. Rebek at MIT (Cambridge, USA) from 1993 – 1995, Thomas Carell moved to the ETH Zürich (Switzerland) into the group of Prof. F. Diederich to start independent research. He obtained his habilitation in 1999.
In 2000, he accepted a full professor position for Organic Chemistry at the Philipps-Universität in Marburg (Germany).
In 2004, he moved to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich (Germany) where he is heading a research group in chemical biology focused to analyze the chemistry of epigenetic programming in DNA and RNA.
Thomas Carell is a member of the German National Academy Leopoldina and of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the recipient of the Cross of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany and since 2019 member of the supervisory board of BASF SE.
Professional Experience
Since 2020
Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, Frankfurt am Main
Vice President
Since 2019
Volkswagenstiftung, Hannover
Member of the board of trustees
Since 2019
BASF SE, Ludwigshafen
Member of the supervisory board
Since 2019
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Speaker of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1309
2009 - 2010
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Vice President Research
2007 - 2019
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Speaker of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 749
2006 - 2019
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Speaker of the Cluster of Excellence CIPSM
Since 2004
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Full Professor for Chemistry
2000 – 2004
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Full Professor for Chemistry
1995 – 2000
ETH Zürich
Junior group leader at the "Laboratorium für Organische Chemie"
Academic Education & Training:
1993 – 1995
MIT (Cambridge, USA)
Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Dr. J. Rebek
1993
Universität Heidelberg
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat. "summa cum laude")
1990 – 1993
MPI Heidelberg
Ph.D. thesis with Prof. Dr. H. A. Staab
1990
Universität Münster
Master Student in Chemistry (Diplom)
1985 – 1990
Universität Münster
Bachelor Student of Chemistry (Vordiplom)
Awards:
2018
Stanley Miller Lecturer (UCSD)
2017
Nelson Leonard Lecturer (University of Illinois)
2017
Todd-Krebs Lectureship (RSC and GDCh)
2017
Adolf-Windaus-Medal
2016
Inhoffen Medal
2014
Michael J. Gait Lectureship
2011
Melvin Calvin Lecture in Organic Chemistry, University of California (Berkeley)
2014
Frantisek Šorm Memorial Medal of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
2010
Member of Berlin Brandenburgische Academy of Sciences
2010
Order of Merrit on Ribbon from the Federal Republic of Germany
2009
Van’t Hoff Lecture, Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (Amsterdam)
2008
Ferdinand Lecture, University of Sheffield
2008
Member of German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
2008
Otto Bayer Award, Bayer Schering Foundation
2006
Philip Morris Research Award, Philip Morris Foundation
2004
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the DFG
2004
Lady Davis Award, Technion (Israel)
2003
Novartis European Young Investigator Award
2002
David Ginsburg Memorial Lecture, Technion (Israel)
2001
L. Pasteur Medal of the JCO, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Paris (France)
1999
Young Investigator Award for Medicinal ⁄ Pharmaceutical Research, GDCh and DPhG
1999
Young Investigator Award (Dozentenstipendium), Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
1995
ADUC Award
1995
Young Investigator Award, Werner von Siemens Ring Society
1995
Liebig Award, Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
1993
Feodor Lynen Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
1993
Study Award, Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
1990
Kekulé-Scholarship, Fonds der Chemischen Industrie