Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Dr. Christian Ducho
| Date of birth | September 14th, 1976 |
| Place of birth | Hamburg, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Language skills | German (native), English (fluent) |
| Personal status | Married |
| 1983 - 1987 | Grundschule Turmweg, Hamburg |
| 1987 - 1996 | Sophie-Barat-Schule, Hamburg |
| 06/1996 | Final school leaving ("Abitur") |
| 10/1996 - 09/1998 | Basic studies ("Grundstudium") in Chemistry, University of Hamburg |
| 09/1998 | Prediploma ("Vordiplom") in Chemistry |
| 10/1998 - 09/2001 | Advanced studies ("Hauptstudium") in Chemistry, University of Hamburg |
| 03/2001 - 09/2001 | Diploma thesis in the research group of Prof. Dr. Chris Meier, Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Hamburg. Topic: "Aryl-substituted and benzo-annulated cycloSal nucleotides" |
| 09/2001 | Diploma in Chemistry |
| 11/2001 - 07/2005 | Doctoral work in Organic Chemistry in the research group of Prof. Dr. Chris Meier, University of Hamburg. Topic: "cycloSal nucleotides - approaches towards the optimization of a drug delivery system" |
| 06/2002 - 12/2004 | Associated member of the graduate school ("Graduierten-kolleg") 464 "Glycoconjugates" |
| 7/2005 | Doctoral degree in Chemistry (grade "with excellence (summa cum laude)") |
| 05/2005 - 07/2005 | Internship at Sanofi-Aventis in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, parallel synthesis section |
| 09/2005 | Research stay with postdoctoral status in the research group of PD Dr. A. Terfort, Institute of Inorganic and Applied Chemistry, University of Hamburg |
| 10/2005 - 07/2007 | Postdoc in the research group of Prof. Dr. Christopher J. Schofield, University of Oxford, UK, funded via a postdoctoral fellowship of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. Topic: "Biosynthesis of carbapenem antibiotics" |
| 08/2007 - 09/2011 | Assistant Professor ("Juniorprofessor", W1) of Organic Chemistry at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry |
| 05/2010 | Positive evaluation of the Assistant Professorship ("Junior-professur") |
| 04/2011 - 09/2011 | Substitute Associate Professor ("Vertretungsprofessor", W2, limited to six months) of Organic Chemistry at the University of Hamburg, Institute of Organic Chemistry |
| 10/2011 - 12/2013 | Associate Professor (W2) of Organic Chemistry at the University of Paderborn, Department of Chemistry |
| since 01/2014 | Full Professor (W3) of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry at Saarland University, Department of Pharmacy |
| 04/2001 - 03/2004 | Head ("Regionalgruppensprecher") of the Young Chemists Committee ("Jungchemikerforum", JCF) Hamburg of the German Chemical Society (GDCh). Activities during this period: Organisation of scientific talks and presentations of career opportunities for chemists; Participation in federal JCF events (e.g. "Euregionale") and meetings; Representation of the JCF at the University of Hamburg; Participation in meetings of the board of the Hamburgian section of the GDCh |
| 04/2004 | One-week stay in Boston/MA, USA, as part of the German-American exchange program of the GDCh and the ACS |
| 10/2004 | Participation in the "Roche Symposium for Leading Chemists of the Next Decade", Roche research site, Basel, Switzerland |
| 09/2010 | Co-organiser of the 19th Young Scientists Conference on Bioorganic Chemistry ("19. Nachwuchswissenschaftler-Tagung Bioorganische Chemie", with D. Werz and C. Höbartner) in Göttingen |
| 03/2014 | Co-organiser of the German Chemistry Lectureres Conference ("Chemiedozententagung", with G. Henkel, M. Tiemann, D. Kuckling and R. Wilhelm) in Paderborn |
| 11/1996 - 09/2001 | Fellowship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
| 04/2002 - 03/2004 | Doctoral fellowship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI) |
| 12/2002 | Award for the best Diploma thesis of the academic year 2001/2002 in Chemistry at the University of Hamburg |
| 03/2003 | Two awards at the "Euregionale" in Dresden, Germany: First prize for oral presentation (talk) and third prize for poster presentation in the section "life sciences" |
| 04/2004 | Strem Chemicals Award for outstanding oral presentation at the Northeastern Student Chemistry Research Conference (NSCRC) in Boston/MA, USA |
| 04/2004 | Aventis [i]lab award (funding for the participation in a scientific conference in Minneapolis/MN, USA) |
| 10/2005 - 07/2007 | Postdoctoral fellowship of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina |
| 12/2005 | Award for one of the best doctoral theses 2005 in Chemistry at the University of Hamburg |
| 05/2011 | Funding by the Junior Scientist Program (JSP) for the participation in the 46th EUCHEM Conference on Stereochemistry ("Bürgenstock Conference") in Brunnen, Switzerland |
| 09/2011 | Poster award at the Sixth Cambridge Symposium on Nucleic Acids Chemistry and Biology, Cambridge, UK |
| 11/2011 | Thieme Chemistry Journals Award 2012 |