Thomas Carell#
| Membership Number: | 6133 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.carellgroup.de |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7898-2831 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003 - present Professor of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
- 2019 Visiting Professor at the University Descartes in Paris
- 2008 Visiting Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- 2005 Visiting Professor Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bologna, Italy
- 2004 Visiting Professor Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- 2000 - 2003 Professor of Organic Chemistry, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
- 1995 - 2000 Ass. Professor at the Laboratory for Organic Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- 1993 - 1995 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. J. Rebek, MIT, Cambridge, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Chemical analysis of epigenetic modifications and processes
- Analysis of DNA/RNA lesion processes by nucleotide analogues, tracers and high end mass spectrometry
- Prebiotic chemistry - origins of life
- Development of technologies for non-canonical nucleoside and nucleotide synthesis
- Organic chemistry of modified nucleosides/nucleotides
Honours and Awards
- 22019 Supervisory Board member of BASF SE
- 2017 Alexander Todd- Hans Krebs Lectureship, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2017 Windaus Memorial Lecture, Göttingen
- 2016 Inhoffen-Medal for Excellence in Natural Product Research of the Helmholtz Society
- 2014 Gait-Lecture Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, Britain
- 2013 Werdelmann Lecture University-Essen Duisburg, Germany
- 2011 Melvin Calvin Lecture in Organic Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
- 2011 Šorm Award of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- 2010 Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2009 Van ’t Hoff Lecture, Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam
- 2008 Ferdinand Lecture, University of Sheffield
- 2008 Otto Bayer Award, Bayer Schering Foundation
- 2006 Philip Morris Research Award, Philip Morris Foundation
- 2004 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the DFG (comparable to HHMI)
- 2004 Lady Davis Award, Technion, Israel
- 2001 Pasteur Medal of the JCO, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Paris, France
