Daniel B. Werz

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Daniel Bodo Werz (born October 12, 1975 in Heidelberg ) is a German chemist and university professor. He has been Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Technical University of Braunschweig since 2013 .

Daniel B. Werz at the Wikipedia booth at the 2016 Chemistry Lecturer Conference in Heidelberg

Werz went to school in Heidelberg, passed his Abitur at the Elisabeth von Thadden School in 1995 and studied chemistry there from 1995 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 1998/99 he went to the University of Bristol in Great Britain for six months as an Erasmus scholar . In 2000 he obtained his diploma at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg with the preparation of a diploma thesis on cyclopropenone chemistry with Rolf Gleiter . In 2003 he received his doctorate summa cum laude with a dissertation on electron-rich alkyne systems . For his outstanding dissertation he received the Ruprecht-Karls-Preis of the University of Heidelberg. As a post-doctoral student , he worked with Peter H. Seeberger at the ETH Zurich from 2004 to 2006 , where he dealt with the total synthesis of complex glycans . This stay was initially supported by a Feodor Lynen grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and by the DFG. At the end of 2006 he began working independently at the Georg-August University in Göttingen in the vicinity of Lutz F. Tietze on his habilitation. This work - with the aim of establishing a junior research group - was initially supported by a Liebig grant from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie , then an Emmy Noether grant from the DFG. In 2011 he completed his habilitation in organic and biomolecular chemistry. In 2012 he received a Heisenberg scholarship . After substituting a professorship in Göttingen, he was appointed W 2 Professor for Organic Chemistry at the TU Braunschweig in May 2013. In 2018, Daniel B. Werz turned down a call to Ulm University for a W3 professorship for organic chemistry and accepted the offer of the Technical University of Braunschweig to stay for a W3 professorship for organic chemistry.

Werz and his working group are working on novel synthetic methods in organic chemistry. Above all, cyclopropanes with donors and acceptors on neighboring carbon atoms and triple bonds play a decisive role. With the help of metal-catalyzed processes and so-called domino reactions, novel substances are made accessible quickly and effectively. In addition to this methodical-oriented work, the chemistry of carbohydrates , glycolipids and novel fluorescent dyes is also dealt with.

In 2006 Werz received the Klaus Grohe Prize for medicinal chemistry and in 2011 a teaching fellowship from the Chemical Industry Fund . In 2014 he was awarded the ORCHEM Prize of the Liebig Association of the Society of German Chemists . In 2015 he held a JSPS visiting professorship at the University of Kyoto / Japan and received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council ERC. In 2017 he received a visiting professorship at the IIT Bombay in Mumbai / India, in 2018 he became a visiting scholar at Tel Aviv University in Israel.

Fonts

  • with Sébastien Vidal (Ed.): Modern Synthetic Methods in Carbohydrate Chemistry: From Monosaccharides to Complex Glycoconjugates, Wiley-VCH, 2013
  • with Tobias F. Schneider, Johannes Kaschel: A New Golden Age in Chemistry Donor-Acceptor-Substituted Cyclopropanes, Angewandte Chemie, Volume 126, 2014, pp. 5608–5628
  • with Johannes Kaschel: Expanding Small Rings: It's all about tension, Nachrichten aus der Chemie, Volume 59, 2011, Issue 7–8, pp. 729–733
  • with Rolf Gleiter: Alkynes Between Main Group Elements: From Dumbbells via Rods to Squares and Tubes, Chem. Rev., Volume 110, 2010, pp. 4447–4488
  • with Rolf Gleiter: Cycloalkynes, Science of Synthesis, Volume 43, 2008, pp. 631–668

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inaugural lecture by Prof. Dr. Daniel B. Werz - TU Braunschweig | Blogs
  2. ↑ Staff news . In: News from chemistry . tape 61 , no. 5 , 2013, p. 563-566 , doi : 10.1002 / nadc.201390177 .
  3. ↑ Research & Teaching 4/18
  4. ↑ Press release TU Braunschweig 2015
personal data
SURNAME Werz, Daniel B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werz, Daniel Bodo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg