Curriculum Vitae

André K. Eckhardt

Research Experience

Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB), Lehrstuhl für Organische Chemie II, Bochum, Germany (2022 - present)

• Independent Early Career Research Group Leader (Liebig Fellow)
• Feodor Lynen Return Fellow 02/22 - 06/2022, Advisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfram Sander

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, MA, USA (2020 - 2022)

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 02/2020 - 01/2022, Advisor: Prof. Christopher C. Cummins

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Cambridge, MA, USA (2020 - 2022)

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 02/2020 - 01/2022, Advisor: Michael C. McCarthy, PhD
  • 03/2020: Visiting Researcher at Mauna Kea Observatories, Submillimeter Array (SMA), Big Island, HI, USA
    
    

Education

Justus Liebig University (JLU), Institute of Organic Chemistry, Gießen, Germany (2011 - 2020)

• Dr. rer. nat. in Organic Chemistry, 10/2016 - 05/2019, Advisor: Prof. Dr. Peter R. Schreiner
  • Thesis: “Sweet Life – Reactivity of Novel Carbenes in Tunneling and Sugar Forming Reactions” (summa cum laude)
  • 04/2019: Visiting Researcher at University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal,
    Advisors: Prof. Rui Fausto, Cláudio M. Nunes, PhD and Dr. hab. Igor D. Reva
  • 08/2018 - 10/2018: Visiting Researcher at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM), Honolulu, HI, USA,
    Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ralf I. Kaiser
• M. Sc. in Organic Chemistry, 2014 - 2016

• B. Sc. in Organic Chemistry, 2011 - 2014
  

• Abitur 2011 (Theo-Koch-Schule Grünberg)
  
  

Awards and Honors

• FCI Liebig Fellowship (2022 - 2025)
• Feodor Lynen Return Fellowship (2022)
• Dissertation Award (Natural Sciences) JLU Gießen (2020)
• Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2020 - 2021)
• Reaxys PhD Prize Finalist (2019)
• FCI PhD Scholarship (2017 - 2019)
• Poster Award (691. WE-Heraeus-Seminar, 2019)
• GDCh Travel Grant Gordon Research Conference Physical Organic Chemistry, Holderness, NH, USA (2017)
• GDCh Prize for the best Chemistry A-levels (2011)