Vizepräsident der DFG seit 2021

Max-Planck Institute for Colloids
and Interfaces
Department for Biomolecular Systems

Freie Universität Berlin
Department for Biomolecular Systems
Inst. for Chemistry + Biochem.

Education

Year	Discription
1995	Ph.D. in Biochemistry University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Thesis advisor: Prof. M.H. Caruthers
1989	B.S. in Chemistry University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, D

Experience

Year	Discription
Since 2009	Director, Department for Biomolecular Systems Max-Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, D
Since 2009	Professor of Chemistry Free University of Berlin, Berlin, D
2019 - 2020 (and 2011 - 2012)	Managing Director Max-Planck Inst. for Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, D
Since 2011	Honorary Professor of Chemistry Potsdam University, Potsdam, D
2003 - 2014	Affiliate Professor The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, USA
2003 - 2009	Chair, Laboratory for Organic Chemistry Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, CH
2002 - 2003	Firmenich Associate Professor of Chemistry (tenured) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
1998 - 2002	Assistant Professor of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
1995 - 1997	Research Fellow Sloan-Kettering Institute f. Cancer Research, New York; USA Mentor: Prof. S.J. Danishefsky

Awards and Honors

Year	Discription
2021	ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry
2020	Emil-Fischer-Medaille, German Chemical Society
2019	The Barry Cohen Prize, MedChem Section Israel Ch. Soc.
2019	Melville L. Wolfrom Award, ACS Carbohydrate Division
2018	Gusi Peace Prize, Phillipines
2018	Ernst Hellmut Vits-Prize, Univ. Münster
2017	Wissenschaftspreis des Stifterverbandes
2015	Humanity in Science Award
2013	Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
2013	C. S. Hamilton Award for Organic Chemistry Univ. Nebraska
2012	“Honorary Visiting Professor”, Jiangnan University
2012	Whistler Award, Int. Carb. Organization
2011	Hans Herloff Inhoffen-Medal, TU Braunschweig
2010	Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award Bioorg. Med. Chem.
2009	Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry (ACS)
2009	Honorary Lifetime Member, Israel Chemical Society
2008	Karl-Heinz Beckurts Prize
2008	ERC Advanced Grant
2008	“The 100 Most Important Swiss 2008” Schweizer Illustrierte
2008	UCB-Ehrlich Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry
2007	Yoshimasa Hirata Gold Medal, Nagoya University
2007	“The 100 Most Important Swiss 2007” Schweizer Illustrierte
2007	Körber European Science Award
2007	Havinga Medal, Leiden University
2006	Astra Zeneca Organic Chemistry Award
2006	President of 2006, Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences
2005	European Society for Combinatorial Sciences Award
2005	Carbohydrate Research Award for Creativity Carboh. Chem.
2004	Otto-Klung Weberbank Prize for Chemistry
2003	Horace B. Isbell Award (ACS Carbohydrate Division)
2003	Arthur C. Cope Young Scholar Award (ACS)
2002	Merck Academic Development Program Award
2002	Robert P. Goldberg Grand Prize (MIT 50K Competition)
2002	Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award
2002	Alfred P. Sloan Research Scholar
2002	Glaxo-Smith-Kline Research Scholar Award
2000	CaP CURE Research Award
1999	CaP CURE Research Award
1999	Research Corporation “Research Innovation Award”
1999	Technology Review Top 100 Young Innovator Award
1999	Edgerly Science Partnership Fund Award
1999	Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience Award
1998	CaP CURE Research Award
1997	Liebig Fellow
1990 - 1992	Fulbright Scholar
1987 - 1992	Bavarian Government Scholar

Visiting Professorships

Year	Discription
2021 - 2022	Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor, Oxford University (UK)
2018	Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Bombay (India)
2015	26th George Büchi Visiting Professor in Organic Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA (USA)
Since 2012	Griffith University, Gold Coast (Australia)
2013	Université Sorbonne: Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (France)
2011	Singapore National University (Singapore)
2010	Instit. for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University, Kyoto (Japan)
2010	CSIRO Melbourne (Australia)
2010	Melbourne University (Australia)
2003 - 2006	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
1998	Rheinische-Wilhelms University Bonn (Germany)

Named Lectures

Year	Discription
2020	Barluenga Lectureship, Univ. de Oviedo, Spain
2020	Sunney Chan Lecture, Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan
2020	Henry Kuiivila Lecture, SUNY Albany, NY, USA
2020	Novartis Lecture, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2019	H.C. Brown Lecture, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
2018	Andy Derome Lectures, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
2017	Otto-Warburg-Lecture, University Bayreuth, Germany
2017	Tony Holý Lecture, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, CR
2016	Howard Mem. Lectures, Univ. of Sydney and NSW, Australia
2015	The Hassel Lectures, Univ. of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
2014	Novartis Lecture, Univ. of Pennsylvan, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2014	Dean's Disting. Lecture, Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
2013	Csaba Horvath Memorial Lect., ACS-HU, Budapest, Hungary
2013	Durham Lectures, Durham University, UK
2013	Scynexis Lecturer, Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
2013	C. S. Hamilton Lectureship, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
2012	Abbott-Lilly Lecture, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2011	Merck Organic Chem. Lect., Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison USA
2011	Sigma-Aldrich Lecture, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison USA
2011	Mashelkar Endowment Lecture, Nat. Chem. Lab., Pune, India
2011	Dillon Steele Lecture, Univ of Queensland, Brisbane, Austr.
2011	Organic Syntheses Lecture, Wayne State Univ., Detroit, USA
2011	Hans Herloff Inhoffen Lecture, Braunschweig, Germany
2011	BBVA Lecture, Bilbao, Spain
2009	Backer Lecture, Univ. of Groningen, Nederlands
2009	Jack Fox Presidential Lecture, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
2008	Bristol-Meyers-Squibb Lecture, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2008	Bristol-Meyers-Squibb Lecture, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
2008	McRae Lecture, Queens University, CA
2008	Boehringer Ingelheim Lecture, Universite de Montreal, CA
2008	Astra Zeneca Lecture, Sheffield University, UK
2007	Yoshimasa Hirata Memorial Lecture, Nagoya Univ., Japan
2007	Lemieux Biotechnology Lect., Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, CA
2007	David Ginsburg Annual Lectureship, Technion, Israel
2005	Griess Lectures, RSC East Midlands Section, UK
2005	Amgen Lecture, Stanford University, CA, USA
2004	Lilly Lecture, Universität Braunschweig, Germany
2002	Novartis Lecture, Yale University, CT, USA
2002	Haynes-Morris Lecture, University of Tennessee, TN, USA
2001	Sigma-Xi Lecture, MIT, MA, USA

Editorial Work

Year	Discription
Since 2011	Editor-in-Chief; Beilstein J. of Organic Chemistry
Since 2010	Editorial Board, ACS Chemical Biology
Since 2011	Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry
Since 2011	Journal of Flow Chemistry, Editorial Advisory Board
Since 2011	ChemBioChem, Editorial Advisory Board
Since 2014	Synthesis/Synlett, Editorial Advisory Board
Since 2015	Chemical Reviews, Editorial Advisory Board
Since 2015	Chem, Editorial Board
Since 2006	Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, Editorial Advisory Board
2007 - 2018	Board of Consulting Editors, Bioorg. & Med. Chem. Letters
2007 - 2018	Board of Consulting Editors, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
2004 - 2017	Adv. Carbohydrate Chem.Biochem., Editorial Advisory Board
2003 - 2010	Editor, Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry
2007 - 2010	Board of Editors, HFSP Journal
2002 - 2005	Associate Editor, Chemistry & Biology
2001 - 2007	Carbohydrate Research, Editorial Advisory Board
2002 - 2009	Current Organic Synthesis, Editorial Advisory Board
2002 - 2009	Mini Reviews in Organic Chemistry, Editorial Advisory Board
2003 - 2009	QSAR& Combinatorial Science, Editorial Advisory BoardSA
2005 - 2015	Journal of Biotechnology, Editorial Advisory Board
2006 - 2009	Board of Editors, ACS Chemical Biology
2007 - 2009	Current Chemical Biology, Editorial Advisory Board
2007 - 2009	The Open Cell and Developmental Biology Journal, Editorial Advisory Board
2007 - 2009	The Open Medicinal Chemistry Journ, Editorial Advisory Board
2008 - 2011	Beilstein J. of Organic Chemistry, Editorial Advisory Board
2009 - 2015	Macromolecular Biosciences, International Advisory Board

Selected Publications

• Plante, O.J.; Palmacci, E.R.; Seeberger, P.H.; Automated Solid-Phase Synthesis of Oligosaccharides; Science 2001, 291, 1523-1527.
• Schofield, L.; Hewitt, M.C.; Evans, K.; Siomos, M.A.; Seeberger, P.H.; Synthetic GPI as a Candidate Anti-toxic Vaccine in a Model of Malaria; Nature, 2002, 418, 785-789.
• de Paz, J.L.; Noti, C.; Seeberger, P.H.; Microarrays of Synthetic Heparin Oligosaccharides; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 2766-2767
• Levesque, F.; Seeberger, P.H.; Continuous flow synthesis of the antimalarial drug artemisinin; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 1706-1709.
• Hofmann, J.; Hahm, H.S.; Seeberger, P.H.; Pagel, K.; Identification of Carbohydrate Anomers Using Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry; Nature 2015, 526, 241-244.
• Hahm, H.S.; Schlegel, M.K.; Hurevich, M.; Eller, S.; Schuhmacher, F.; Hofmann, J.; Pagel, K.; Seeberger, P.H.; Automated Glycan Assembly Using the Glyconeer 2.1® Synthesizer; Proc Nat Acad Sci USA, 2017, 114, E3385-E3389
• Schumann, B.; Hahm, H.S.; Parameswarappa, S.G.; Reppe, K.; Wahlbrink, A.; Govindan, S.; Kaplonek, P.; Pirofski, L.-a.; Witzenrath, M.; Anish, C.; Pereira, C.L.; Seeberger, P.H.; A Semisynthetic Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 8 Glycoconjugate Vaccine Candidate; Science Transl. Med. 2017, 9, eaaf5347
• Chatterjee, S.; Guidi, M.; Seeberger, P.H.; Gilmore, K.; Automated Radial Synthesis of Complex Organic Molecules; Nature 2020, 579, 379–384.
• Wu, X. Delbianco, M.; Anggara, K.; Michnowicz, T.; Pardo-Vargas, A.; Bharate, P.; Sen, S.; Pristl, M.; Rauschenbach, S.; Schlickum, U.; Abb, S.; Seeberger, P.H.; Kern, K.; Imaging Single Glycans; Nature 2020, 582, 375–378.
• Zhu, Y.; Delbianco, M.; Seeberger, P.H.; Automated Assembly of Starch and Glycogen Polysaccharides; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, in press.
• Further publications by Prof. Dr. Peter H. Seeberger