Jan-Erling Bäckvall#
| Email: | jeb 'at' organ.su.se |
| Membership Number: | 2377 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Username: | jbackvall |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1997- Professor of Organic Chemistry at Stockholm University
- 1986- Professor of Organic Chemistry at Uppsala University
- 1975- Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Fields of Scholarship
- Dynamic Kinetic Resolution
- Biomimetic Oxidation
- Organo- Metallic Transformation
- Directed Evolution
Honours and Awards
- Arrhenius medal (1986)
- The Sandoz Lectureship Award (1996)
- Senior Individual Grant Award to Outstanding Senior Scientists (1997)
- Grant Award for Excellent Research Environments from the Swedish Research Council (VR) (2001)
- Celsius Medal in Gold (2002)
- The “Björkén Prize” (Björkénska priset) (2003)
- Grant Award for Excellent Research Environments from the Swedish Research Council (VR) (2003)
- Ulla and Stig Holmquist's Prize in Organic Chemistry (2005)
- Herbert C. Brown Lecturer at Purdue University, Indiana, USA (2006)
- Organic Syntheses Lectureship Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne, USA (2008)
- Jeremiah P. Freeman Organic Synthesis Lectureship, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA (2008)
- Member of Academia Europaea
- Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
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