Prof. L. Ackermanngroup is interested in the development of environmentally benign and economically sound processes of importance to organic synthesis. This combines techniques of organic synthesis and organometallic chemistry for the development of more efficient catalytic transformations. Thus far, Ackermanngroup is focused on four main research areas: (A) catalytic functionalizations of unactivated C–H bonds. This work includes the use of inter alias ruthenium, titanium, zirconium, palladium, nickel, and copper catalysts on a day to day basis; (B) development of air-stable secondary phosphine oxides as preligands for catalytic cross-couplings; (C) hydroaminations of alkynes, allenes, and alkenes; and (D) efficient syntheses of biologically relevant compounds.Up to now, Prof. Ackermann has already published around 240 papers in Nature, Nat. Chem., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem.Int. Ed., and Chem. Sci., etc.

EDUCATION for Prof. L. Ackermann

    1993 –1998, Diploma of Chemistry at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , Germany

    1998-2001, Ph.D. Thesis (Prof. Alois Fürstner), MPI Kohlenforschung in Mülheim, Germany

    2001-2003, Postdoctoral Studies with Prof. Robert G. Bergman, UC Berkeley, U.S.A.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

    2015–Present, Director of the Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, Georg- August-     University Göttingen

    2013–2015, Dean of Research, Faculty of Chemistry, Georg-August-University Göttingen

    2011–2013, Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, Georg-August-University Göttingen

    Since 2007, Full Professor (W3) at the Georg-August-University Göttingen

    2003-2007, Emmy Noether-Fellow (DFG): Independent research at the LMU München

Awards and Recognition (selected): 2011 ~ 2016

    2017 Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Prize

    2016 Thomson Reuters (Web of Science) ISI Highly Cited Researcher

    2016 Fellow of the Royal Society of chemistry, FRSC

    2016 Member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Göttingen

    2014 ISI Highly Cited Researcher, BASF lecture, UC Berkeley, USA

    2012 ERC Independent Researcher Consolidator Grant

    2011 AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award