Thomas Carell

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Thomas Carell was born in Herford (Germany) in 1966. He studied chemistry at the Universities of M�nster 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) in 1993-1995, Thomas Carell moved to the ETH Z�rich (Switzerland) to start independent research. He obtained his Habilitation with Francois Diederich in 1999 and became Privatdozent at ETH subsequently. In 2000 he accepted a full professor position for Organic Chemistry at the Philipps-University in Marburg (Germany). In 2004 he moved to the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich (Germany). His awards include the ADUC annual award in 1998, the pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry award in 1999, the Liebig- and Dozenten-Scholarship in 1995 and 2000. In 2003 he received Germany highest research award, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award. Since 2000 he is an elected member of the Young Academy. In 2002, Carell was the David Ginsburg memorial lecturer at the Technion Haifa (Israel), he was the Lady Davis guest professor at the Technion Haifa (Israel) in 2004 and guest professor at the ANU in Canberra (Australia) in 2008. Since 2008 Prof. Carell is an elected member of the "Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina". In 2009 he was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande of the Federal Republic of Germany.