Prof. Dr. Christian Merten
Ruhr University Bochum
Organic Chemistry II
Prof. Dr. Christian Merten
Univeristätstraße 150, NC 5/132
44801 Bochum
Tel. +49 234 32-24529
Fax.+49 234 32-14535
christian.merten@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Education and Professional Career
October 2002 – May 2007
Studies of Chemistry at the University of Bremen, Germany
January 2007 – May 2007
Diploma thesis “Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy of Solid Polymers”
at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM), Bremen, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hartwig (Adhesives and Polymer Chemistry Group)
July 2007 – August 2010
Doctoral thesis “Investigation of the molecular conformations and the intermolecular interactions of chiral molecules”
at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM), Bremen, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hartwig (Adhesives and Polymer Chemistry Group)
August 2010 – February 2011
Postdoctoral research fellow
at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM), Adhesives and Polymer Chemistry Group, Bremen, Germany
March 2011 – August 2013
Postdoctoral research fellow
in the group of Yunjie Xu at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
October 2013 – March 2020
Research Group Leader
at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Chair for Organic Chemistry II
since March 2020
Professor for Organic Chemistry “Stereochemistry and Chiroptical Spectroscopy”
at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Chair for Organic Chemistry II
Awards
September 2011 – August 2013
Feodor-Lynen Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
October 2013 – September 2018
Liebig Fellowship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
October 2017 – March 2019
Member of the Global Young Faculty V of the Mercator Research Center Ruhr
November 2018 – present
Support through the Plus-3 Perspective Programme of the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation
April 2019 – present
Heisenberg Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)