prof. dr. A.K.H. Hirsch

Current Position
Assistant professor of bio-organic chemistry, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry (2010 to present)
Education
2008–2010: Postdoctoral Fellow. Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires, France (Prof. J.-M. Lehn)
2004–2008: Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry. ETH Zürich, Switzerland: (Prof. F. Diederich) “A Novel Approach towards Antimalarials: Design and Synthesis of Inhibitors of the Kinase IspE”
2000–2004: M.Sci., M.A. in Natural Sciences (Chemistry). University of Cambridge, UK
2002–2003: Exchange. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Research Experience
2003–2004: Master’s project. University of Cambridge, UK (Prof. S. V. Ley):
“Development of a Tandem Dithiol Addition-Cyclisation Reaction”
2003: Summer internship. Procter and Gamble (R&D), Italy
2003: Research internship. Department of Chemistry, MIT, USA (Prof. T. F. Jamison) Work towards the total synthesis of amphidinolide T1
2002: Research internship. Department of Chemistry and Bioengineering, MIT, USA (Prof. J. Essigmann)
2002: Summer internship. GlaxoSmithKline (Department of Medicinal Chemistry), UK
2001 Summer internship. Laboratoire Franco-Luxembourgeois de recherche biomédicale(CNRS), Luxembourg: Training in experimental techniques in molecular biology
Academic Awards
2016 Award of the SCT-Servier Prize for Medicinal Chemistry
2015 Award of a LIFT grant (NWO)
2015 Award of the VIDI grant (NWO)
2014 Award of the Gratama Prize
2014 Award of the ECHO grant (NWO)
2011 Award of the ChemThem grant (NWO)
2010 Award of the VENI grant (NWO)
2010 Prize for the best oral presentation (9th Swiss Snow Symposium)
2008–2010 Human Frontier Science Program: postdoctoral fellowship
2007 Prize for the best oral presentation (Swiss Chemical Society Annual Meeting)
2005 Roche Research Foundation: fellowship for doctoral students
2000–2004 College Scholarship and Prize for the best exam in Natural Sciences each year
Memberships
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV)
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