Dr. Oliver Trapp
Chemistry
Chemistry and Nanoscience
Germany
Biography
Born in 1973 1993-1998 Undergraduate and graduate studies in Chemistry at the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen 1998 Diploma in Chemistry and Diploma-Thesis with Prof. Dr. V. Schurig, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen 1998-2001 Fellow in the DFG Graduate College 'Chemistry in Interphases' at the University of Tübingen 2001 PhD and Dissertation with Prof. Dr. V. Schurig, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen 2002-2004 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Group of Prof. Dr. R.N. Zare, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, California, USA. 2004-2008 Emmy Noether Research Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung 2008-2016 Professor of Organic Chemistry (W3) at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2009 Habilitation at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2012-2015 Department Chair of the Organisch-Chemisches Institut at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2015-2016 Project and Scientific Manager of the Catalysis Research Laboratory (CaRLa) Since 2015 Scientific Coordinator of the Heidelberg Initiative for the Origins of Life Since 2015 Max-Planck-Fellow of the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy Since 2016 Professor of Organic Chemistry (W3) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Research Interest
Design and synthesis of self-amplifying enantioselective catalysts Design and synthesis of stereochemically flexible ligands and catalysts and investigation of their properties Prebiotic chemistry Development of novel multiplexing techniques for high-throughput analysis of catalytic reactions Development of on-column reaction chromatography and electrophoresis High-throughput screening of catalysts High-throughput determination of kinetic and thermodynamic parameters of catalyzed reactions Synthesis of novel (enantioselective) catalysts and ligands Noble metal nanoparticles Synthesis of (chiral) stationary phases for chromatographic separation Synthesis and immobilization of supramolecular compounds Enantioselective dynamic chromatography Development of direct calculation methods for dynamic chromatography Development of software tools: DCXplorer, RCXplorer, ChromWin
