Thomas Carell

Curriculum Vitae


Portrait Thomas Carell 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

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