Christoph A. Schalley

Biography

03/1968     born in Krefeld/Germany 10/1988 - 01/1994     chemistry studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Technische Universität Berlin 04/1993 - 01/1994     diploma thesis on the "Metal-Mediated CH and CC Activation of Cyclopropylketones in the Gas Phase" in the Schwarz group at Technische Universität Berlin 01/1994 - 04/1997     Ph. D. thesis with Helmut Schwarz on the "Gas-Phase Ion Chemistry of Peroxides" 04/1997 - 12/1997     research associate with Helmut Schwarz, work on neutralization-reionization mass spectrometry and on spin-forbidden reactions of small molecules and ions 01/1998 - 06/1999     postdoc in the group of Julius Rebek at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla/CA 07/1999 - 07/2003     habilitation at the Kekulé-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie der Universität Bonn as Liebig fellow of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie 08/2003 - 09/2005     Privatdozent (Senior Lecturer) at the Kekulé-Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie at the University of Bonn 10/2003 - 09/2004     substitute professor for the vacant C3 professor position Prof. Bräse at the University of Bonn 07/2005     call for a professor position for Organic Chemistry at the University of Erlangen/Nuremberg (declined) since 10/2005     professor for Organic Chemistry at the Freie Universität Berlin 01/2017 - 12/2019     Adjunct Professor at the School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an/China 04/2017     Visiting Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Hiroshima, Hiroshima/Japan

Research Interest

Fields of Research: Supramolecular Chemistry, Mechanically Interlocked Molecules, Self-Assembly, Surface Chemistry, Low Molecular Weight Gelators, Multivalent Binding, Gas-Phase Chemistry of Non-Covalent Complexes and Oxido Clusters