Wolfgang H. Kramer

Personal Data

            Birthdate/place: November 20, 1969, Bochum, Germany

Education

    Doctorate in Organic Chemistry (Dr. rer.nat.), University of Cologne (Köln), Germany, 2000 ("summa cum laude") (with A. G. Griesbeck)

Dissertation: Memory of Chirality via Triplet-1,7-biradicals: Diastereo- and enantioselective Synthesis of Pyrrolo[1,4]-benzodiazepines through Decarboxylative Photocyclization of Anthranilic Acid Building Blocks

    Dipl. Chemist (M.S.), University of Cologne (Köln), Germany, 1996 (with A. G. Griesbeck)

Diplom Thesis: Synthesis and Photochemistry of N-protected, C-activated a-Amino Acids

    cand. Chemist, University of Cologne (Köln), Germany, 1993

Affiliations

           Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)

              GDCh Fachgruppe Photochemie

           Inter-American Photochemical Society (I-APS)

           European Photochemical Society (EPA)

           Mississippi Academy of Science (MAS)

Award

       Kurt Alder Award 2001, University of Cologne, Germany

Academic Activities

           Lab Assistant: Training of Biology and Medicine Students 1998-1999

           Researcher DFG-Project 'Photochemie: Aminosaeuren' 1995-1999

           Education Superviser, Coordination of the Training of Biology and Medicine Students, 3 Hours per Week Class Teaching 1999-2000, University of Cologne, Germany

           Member of Local Organizing Committee: 15. Vortragstagung der GDCh-Fachgruppe Photochemie, Köln (Germany), 19.-21. November 1997

Research Experience

           Postdoctoral Studies at Arizona State University, Irreversible Photooxidants, Synthesis, Spectroscopy and Applications of DNA cleaving compounds, Laser flash photolysis, 2001-2003

           Ph. D. Thesis, Synthesis of photochemically active compounds, synthesis of target compounds via photochemical key steps, amino acid chemistry, photochemistry of donor-acceptor

                    couples, electron transfer, 1996-2000

           Diploma Thesis, Amino acid coupling reactions, photochemistry of phthalimide, 1996

           Research Laboratory Course, Synthesis, of precursors of Corrphycen, 1995

Teaching Experience

           Millsaps College, since Fall 2003, see Teaching link on frontpage

           General Organic Chemistry, CHM 231, Arizona State University, Spring 2003

           Education Superviser, Coordination of the Training of Biology and Medicine Students, 3 Hours per Week Class Teaching 1999-2000, University of Cologne, Germany

           Lab Assistant: Training of Biology and Medicine Students 1998-1999