Curriculum Vitae
2020-Junior Professor for Organic Chemistry (W1) at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
2024-2025
Substitute Professor (Vertretungsprofessur) at the Universität Leipzig.
2018-2019
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Technische Universität Berlin.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Oestreich.
2013-2017
DPhil (PhD) student at the University of Oxford (Lincoln College)
Supervisor: Prof. Timothy J. Donohoe.
Thesis title: Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of (+)-Lophotoxin and Site-selective Modification of the Thiopeptide Anticancer Natural Product Thiostrepton.
2012-2013
Part II (Masters) student at the University of Oxford
Supervisor: Prof. Timothy J. Donohoe.
Thesis title: Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of Inthomycin C
2009-2013
MChem student at the University of Oxford (Lincoln College).
Awards
- Thieme Chemistry Journals Award 2023
- Theodor Heuss Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2018). (Renewed 2019).
- Oxford Cancer Research Centre Prize DPhil Studentship (2013–2017).
- Peter Atkins Scholar, Lincoln College, Oxford (2010, 2011 and 2012).
- AstraZeneca Research Bursary (2010–2012).
Lectures
- GDCh Colloquium, Universität Hamburg, 8.1.2026
- Organic Chemistry Colloquium, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 16.12.2025
- Organic Chemistry Colloquium, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 1.12.2025
- Organic Chemistry Colloquium, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 17.11.2025
- Bioorganik Symposium 2025, HU Berlin, 8-10.09.2025
- Bilateral Tsinghua Göttingen Symposium, Göttingen, 29.07.2025
- Organic Chemistry Colloquium, Freie Universität Berlin, 8.06.2025
- Organic Chemistry Colloquium, Universität Leipzig, 27.05.2025
- 26th Lakeland Symposium (Grasmere), Royal Society of Chemistry, Grasmere, UK, 11–15.05.2025
- Organic Chemistry Colloquium, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 22.04.2025
- Rising Stars in Organic Chemistry (Webinar), Thieme WebCheminar, 24.03.2025
- Chemiedozententagung 2025, Braunschweig, 17–19.03.2025
- Dies Academicus, University of Leipzig, 2.12.2024
- Bioorganik Symposium 2024, TU Dortmund, 21–23.08.2024
- Organic Chemistry Colloquium, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 24.04.2024
- Chemiedozententagung 2024, RWTH Aachen, 11.03.2024
- Fourth Anatolian Conference on Organic Chemistry, Antalya, Turkey, 4–7.03.2024
- Organic Chemistry Colloquium, Universität Hamburg, 12.12.2023
- Bioorganik Symposium 2023, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 13–15.09.2023
- Chemiedozententagung 2023, Technische Universität Dresden, 14.03.2023
- GDCh Weihnachstkolloquium, Georg–August–Universität Göttingen, 17.12.2021
- 24th Lakeland Symposium (Grasmere), Royal Society of Chemistry, Grasmere, UK, 9–13.05.2019.
- 252nd ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, 21–25.08.2016.
External Links
ORCID: 0000-0003-1045-7234 0000-0003-1045-7234Twitter: @johannes_walker
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