About us

Supervisors

Prof. Lutz Ackermann

🇩🇪 University of Göttingen

🎓 Resume
Lutz Ackermann studied Chemistry at the University Kiel (Germany), and performed his PhD with Prof. Alois Fürstner at the Max-Plank Institut for Coal Research (Mülheim/Ruhr, 2001). After a postdoctoral stay at UC Berkeley with Prof. Robert G. Bergman, he initiated his independent research career in 2003 at the Ludwig Maximilians-University München.

In 2007, he became Full Professor (W3) at the Georg-August-University Göttingen.

🏆 Awards and distinctions
2017: Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Preis
2012: ERC Grant
2011: AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award

🔍 Research Interest
The development of new catalysis methodologies for the sustainable and economical synthesis of complex organic molecules, including:

  • catalyzed C-H activation;
  • remote functionalization;
  • photocatalysis;
  • peptide diversification;
  • ligand design;
  • flow chemistry;
  • electrochemistry;
  • computational studies.

⚙️ Project in CHAIR
#9 Synthesis and valorization of (bio)polymers through C-H activation

About us

Supervisors

Prof. Lutz Ackermann

🇩🇪 University of Göttingen

🎓 Resume
Lutz Ackermann studied Chemistry at the University Kiel (Germany), and performed his PhD with Prof. Alois Fürstner at the Max-Plank Institut for Coal Research (Mülheim/Ruhr, 2001). After a postdoctoral stay at UC Berkeley with Prof. Robert G. Bergman, he initiated his independent research career in 2003 at the Ludwig Maximilians-University München.

In 2007, he became Full Professor (W3) at the Georg-August-University Göttingen.

🏆 Awards and distinctions
2017: Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Preis
2012: ERC Grant
2011: AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award

🔍 Research Interest
The development of new catalysis methodologies for the sustainable and economical synthesis of complex organic molecules, including:

  • catalyzed C-H activation;
  • remote functionalization;
  • photocatalysis;
  • peptide diversification;
  • ligand design;
  • flow chemistry;
  • electrochemistry;
  • computational studies.

⚙️ Project in CHAIR
#9 Synthesis and valorization of (bio)polymers through C-H activation