Prof. Dr. Carsten Bolm
RWTH Aachen UniversityLehrstuhl für Organische Chemie II
Landoltweg 1
52074 Aachen
GERMANY
Telephone: +49 241 8094675
Fax: +49 241 8092391
E-Mail: carsten.bolm [at] oc.rwth-aachen.de
Curriculum Vitae:
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03/1960 |
born in Braunschweig, Germany |
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1978–1984 |
TH Braunschweig (undergraduate studies in chemistry) |
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1983–1984 |
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA |
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09/1984 |
Graduation: 'Master of Science, Chemistry' (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA; Prof. Dr. H.-J. Reich) |
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12/1984 |
Graduation: 'Diplom-Chemiker-Hauptprüfung' (TH Braunschweig, Germany; Prof. Dr. H. Hopf) |
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1985–1987 |
Doctoral work at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany |
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07/1987 |
Graduation: 'Dr. rer. nat.' (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany; Prof. Dr. M. T. Reetz) |
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1987–1988 |
Postdoctoral studies (M.I.T., Cambridge, USA; Prof. Dr. K. B. Sharpless) |
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1988–1993 |
Habilitation (TU Darmstadt, Germany, and Universität Basel, Switzerland; with Prof. Dr. B. Giese) |
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1993 |
Offers for C3-faculty positions at the Universities in Würzburg (declined), Hannover (declined), and Marburg |
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10/1993 |
Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany |
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03/1996 |
Chair and Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany (C4) |
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02/2000 |
Offer for a Chair and Full Professorship at the University in Freiburg, Germany (declined) |
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08/2005 |
Offer for a Chair and Full Professorship at the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany (declined) |
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04/2006 |
W3 Professor (Chair and Full Professorship) at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
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10/2012 |
Adjunct Professor at Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China |
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10/2016 |
Honorary Professor at Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China |
Stipends and Awards
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1983–1984 |
Fulbright-stipend |
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1985–1987 |
Kekulé-stipend ('Fonds der Chemischen Industrie and Volkswagen-Foundation') |
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1987–1988 |
Nato-stipend of the DAAD ('German Akademic Exchange Service') |
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1988–1990 |
Liebig-stipend given by the 'Fonds der Chemischen Industrie' |
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1990–1992 |
Treubel-Fonds stipend ('Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft, Basel') |
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06/1991 |
Heinz-Meier-Leibnitz-award given by the 'Federal Secretary for Education and Science', Germany |
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03/1992 |
ADUC-Jahrespreis 1992 für Habilitanden (award) given by the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Lehrstuhlinhaber von Unterrichtsinstituten für Chemie”, Germany |
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02/1993 |
Dozenten-Stipendium (award) given by the “Verband der Chemischen Industrie” |
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11/1993 |
Jahrespreis für Chemie (award) given by the “Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen” |
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12/1996 |
Otto-Klung-award 1996 |
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12/1998 |
Otto-Bayer-award |
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10/2002 |
AstraZeneca European Lecturer |
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09/2003 |
Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) |
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07/2006 |
Prix Franco-Allemand (French-German Price) by the Société Francaise de Chimie |
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11/2007 |
CaRLa Fellow at the University of Heidelberg in collaboration with BASF |
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05/2011 |
Boehringer Ingelheim Lecturer (Canada) |
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04/2014 |
Distinguished Professorship at RWTH Aachen University |
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06/2014, 09/2015 and 11/2016 |
Selected as a “Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher” |
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01/2015 |
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) |
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03/2015 |
Adolf-von-Baeyer-Denkmünze (GDCh) |
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05/2020 |
Famos for Family 2020 (RWTH Aachen University) |
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06/2022 |
Election to the Academia Europaea |
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12/2023 |
Emanuel Vogel Lecture, University to Cologne |
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10/2024 |
Rank 1625 among a total of 217098 chemists (top 1%) as reported by Ioannides and coworkers |
Visiting Professorships
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09–12/1992 |
Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA |
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03/1998 |
Invited Visiting Professorship at the 'Université Pierre et Marie Curie' in Paris, France |
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02/2000 |
Invited Visiting Professorship at the 'Università di Firenze' in Florence, Italy |
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02/2002 |
Invited Visiting Professorship at the 'Università degli studi di Milano' in Milan, Italy |
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2002–2003 |
Professeur Visiteur at the Département de Chimie of the University 'Notre-Dame De La Paix' in Namur, Belgium |
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10/2006 |
Invited Visiting Professorship at the Tokyo University of Science, Japan |
Research Interest
- Enantioselective catalysis
- Asymmetric synthesis
- Bioactive compounds
- Mechanochemistry
- Biomass conversion
- Sulfur chemistry
Journals
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1998–2002 |
Member of the International Advisory Editorial Board of New Journal of Chemistry |
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1999– |
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Synthesis |
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2000–2008 |
Member of the Honorary Advisory Board of Synlett |
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2001–2024 |
Member of the Academic Advisory Board of Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis |
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2003–2024 |
Member of the Board of Consulting Editors of Tetrahedron Letters |
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2003–2024 |
Member of the Board of Consulting Editors of Tetrahedron |
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2003– |
Member of the Editorial Board of Letters in Organic Chemistry |
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2003–2011 |
Commissioning Editor of Chemical Society Reviews |
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2005–2016 |
Member of the Editorial Board of Chemical Reviews |
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2005–2007 |
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Organic Chemistry |
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2005– |
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry |
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2007–2009 |
Member of the Editorial Board of Current Chemical Biology |
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2008–2018 |
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Organic Letters |
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2008–2012 |
Member of the Editorial Board of Catalysis Communications |
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2008–2021 |
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2009–2016 |
Member of the Editorial Board of Molbank |
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2011– |
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of The All Results Journal |
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2013– |
Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Sulfur Chemistry |
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2018–2020 |
Advising Editor for ACS Omega |
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2019–2023 |
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters |
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2020– |
Member of the International Advisory Board of Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society |
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2022– |
Member of the Editorial Board of Molecules |
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2023– |
Member of the Editorial Board of RSC Mechanochemistry |
Author profile: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 6596–6597.
Other (selected) activities
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1998–2001 |
Member of the DAAD selection commitee for “Doktorandenstipendien” |
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2002–2009 |
Member of the DAAD selection commitee in the “PostdocProgramm” |
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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)] |
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1998–2002 |
Member of the “Beirat Technologietransfer und Arbeitskreis Technologietransfer RWTH-IHK” |
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2000–2008 |
Member of the Management Committee of the COST-Action D24 “Sustainable chemical processes: Stereoselective transition-metal catalyzed reactions” |
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2001–2009 |
Member of the International Scientific Committee of ESOC (European Symposium on Organic Chemistry) |
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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.”) |
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2003– |
Member of the International Advisory Committee of ICHAC (International Conference on Heteroatom Chemistry) |
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2012– |
Member of the International Advisory Board of OM&Cat (International Conference on Organometallics and Catalysis) |
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2006–2016 |
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.”) |
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2002–2006 |
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of DEGUSSA Fine Chemicals |
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2002–2004 |
Member of the Senate of the RWTH Aachen University |
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2003–2007 |
Head of the “DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1118” |
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2006–2008 |
Member of the GDCh Selection Committee for the “August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Denkmünze” |
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2006–2008 |
Chairman of the Department of Chemistry (RWTH Aachen University) |
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2007– |
Member of the advisory board “Research and Education Politics” from the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI) |
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2008–2014 |
Rectorate Appointee for the Collaboration with Korea |
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2009– |
Member of the “Perspectives Commission” of the GDCh |
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2009–2015 |
Member of the “Kuratorium des Fonds der Chemischen Industrie” |
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2015– |
Member of the Research Advisory Board of the “Fonds der Chemischen Industrie” |
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2010–2014 |
Rectorate Appointee for the Fulbright Foundation |
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2010–2012 |
Member of the Pre-Selection Committee – Nothern Germany for the DSM Science & Technology Award |
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2012– |
Member of the external advisory board of the Institute for Basic Sience (IBS) within the Chemistry Department of KAIST (Korea) |
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2012– |
Member of the “Rectorate Committee for Safeguarding Good Research Practice” |
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2018–2019 |
CEO of the RWTH Profile Area “Molecular Science and Engineering” (MSE) |
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2020– |
Member of the Steering Committee of the RWTH Profile Area MSE |
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2021– |
Member of the selection committee for the Rudolf Lukeš Prize (of the Experientia Foundation, Czech) |
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2025– |
Member of the Chair's Advisory Board of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte (GDNÄ) |