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
- 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)