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Thomas Baumgartner

Current Position

Full Professor & Canada Research Chair, Department of Chemistry


Education

1996 - 1998Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), with Edgar Niecke, University of Bonn
Thesis Title: “C-functionalized bis(methylene)phosphoranes: Interesting building blocks for the stabilization of reactive intermediates”
1990 - 1996Dipl. Chem. (MSc), with Edgar Niecke, University of Bonn
Thesis Title: “Studies on the reactivity of a (methylene)phosphoranylidene carbenoid”

Professional Experience

2017-Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry, York University
2023AvH Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Regensburg, Germany
2022RCMS Visiting Professor, Nagoya University, Japan
2017-2020Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary
2013-2017Associate Head (Research), Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary
2013-2017Acting Director, Centre for Advanced Solar Materials, University of Calgary
2013-2017Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary
2013, 2014, 2015AvH Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry and Graduate School Molecular Science, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
2009-2013Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary
2006-2009Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary
2003-2006Habilitand, RWTH Aachen University; Mentor: Jun Okuda
2002-2003Habilitand, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz; Mentor: Jun Okuda
1999-2002Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, with Ian Manners
1998-1999Research Associate at the University of Bonn

Fellowships, Awards, Distinctions

2023 - Fellow, Chemical Institute of Canada

2023 - Re-Invitation Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

2022 - IOCF Lectureship Award, International Organic Chemistry Foundation, Japan

2022 - Visiting Professorship, Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University

2020 - Established Research Award (Faculty of Science, York)

2018 - Liebig-Lecturer, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

2017 - Canada Research Chair (Tier-1) in Sustainable Organomain Group Materials

2013 - Faculty of Science Award of Excellence in Research (Calgary)

2013 - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

2011 - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship

2007 - Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award

2002 - Liebig-Fellow of the 'Fonds der Chemischen Industrie' (German Chemical Industry Association)

2002 - DFG-Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Department of Chemistry
York University 
4700 Keele Street 
Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada
Office: LSB 431B

Email: tbaumgar@yorku.ca


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