Biography
Current position:
Professor of Organic Chemistry
Faculty of Sciences
Ghent University
Education:
- July 1992
Master in Chemistry, State University of Gent , Belgium, Faculty of Sciences.
Undergraduate Thesis : "Synthesis of bridgehead compounds through hexatriene-cyclohexadiene electrocyclizations"
Promotor: Prof. Dr. A. Lera;
University of Santiago de Compostela; Spain
- February 1997
Doctor in Sciences, chemistry, State University of Gent, Belgium, Faculty of Sciences.
Ph.D Thesis : "Stepwise development of non-enzymatic hydrolases"
Promotor: Prof. Dr. P. J. De Clercq; Ghent University; Belgium
Carreer:
- 1992-1993
IWONL PhD Grant
- 1993-1997
Research Assistant of the belgian National Fund for Scientific Research at the Ghent University
- 1997
Postdoctoral stay in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. C. Gennari, Dipartimento di Chimica Organica e Industriale Milano, Universita' di Milano, Italy
"Synthesis of ligands for a library of b-turn mimetics"
- 1998-2002
Postdoctoral Research Assistant of the belgian National Fund for Scientific Research
- 2000-2001
Postdoctoral stay in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. R. Strömberg
Division of Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Zweden
Since 1/10/2002 Professor of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences
Ghent University
Awards:
1996 VJC-prize : first prize awarded by the Royal Young Chemists Society (KVCV)
1996 DSM-prize in Chemistry and Technology : second prize awarded by DSM
1996 Varian Award for Analytical Chemistry : first prize awarded by Varian