Christian
Oliver Kappe (b 1965 in Graz, Austria) received his diploma degree
(1989) and doctoral degree (1992) in organic chemistry from
theKarl-Franzens-University in Graz where he worked with Professor
Gert Kollenz on cycloaddition and rearrangement reactions of
acylketenes. After periods of postdoctoral research work on reactive
intermediates and matrix isolation spectroscopy with Professor Curt
Wentrup at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia
(1993-1994), and on synthetic methodology / alkaloid synthesis with
Professor Albert Padwa at Emory University in Atlanta, USA (1994-1996)
he moved back to the University of Graz in 1996 to start his
independent academic career. He obtained his "Habilitation" in 1998 in
organic chemistry and currently holds the position of an associate
Professor of Chemistry (ao. Univ.-Prof.) at the Karl-Franzens-University
in Graz. In 2003 he spent a sabbatical at the Scripps Research
Institute (La Jolla, USA) in the group of Professor K. Barry Sharpless.
Oliver has received the Dissertation Award of the Austrian Chemical
Society (GÖCh) in 1993, an Erwin-Schrödinger Fellowship of the
Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in 1994, an APART Fellowship from the
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) in 1996, and the 1998 Research
Award of the Government of Styria. He is currently a member of the
Executive Board of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry
(ISHC), board member of the European Society of Combinatorial Sciences
(ESCS), and serves on the Editorial/Advisory Boards of a several
international journals, including "Molecular Diversity", and
"Combinatorial Sciences". He is coauthor of more than 100 research
publications in synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry.
Christian
Oliver Kappe (b 1965 in Graz, Austria) received his diploma degree
(1989) and doctoral degree (1992) in organic chemistry from
theKarl-Franzens-University in Graz where he worked with Professor
Gert Kollenz on cycloaddition and rearrangement reactions of
acylketenes. After periods of postdoctoral research work on reactive
intermediates and matrix isolation spectroscopy with Professor Curt
Wentrup at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia
(1993-1994), and on synthetic methodology / alkaloid synthesis with
Professor Albert Padwa at Emory University in Atlanta, USA (1994-1996)
he moved back to the University of Graz in 1996 to start his
independent academic career. He obtained his "Habilitation" in 1998 in
organic chemistry and currently holds the position of an associate
Professor of Chemistry (ao. Univ.-Prof.) at the Karl-Franzens-University
in Graz. In 2003 he spent a sabbatical at the Scripps Research
Institute (La Jolla, USA) in the group of Professor K. Barry Sharpless.