Biography

Portrait of Thomas Magauer — Foto: Target Group

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Magauer

Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry

Synthesis & Synthetic Methods
Centre of Chemistry and Biomedicine CCB
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 80-82, Office L02.012

6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Phone: +43 512 507 57731
Fax: +43 512 507 57799

Tommy was born in Linz, Upper Austria in 1983. In 2002, he moved to Vienna to study chemistry at the University of Vienna. In 2007, he joined the laboratories of Prof. Johann Mulzer for his PhD studies developing chemical syntheses of natural products (kendomycin, echinopine A and B). In 2009, he moved to Harvard University (USA) to work as an FWF Erwin Schrödinger fellow with Prof. Andrew G. Myers. In 2012, he began his independent research as a FCI Liebig and a DFG Emmy Noether Group Leader at the LMU Munich. In 2017, Tommy was awarded the Goering Visiting Professorship at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In the same year he was appointed as Full Professor of Synthesis and Synthetic Methods at the University of Innsbruck (Austria), currently serving as the Head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry. His research program has been supported by several industrial collaborations, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant 2017–2022, ERC Consolidator Grant 2022–2027).

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Education

Postdoctoral-Fellow Harvard University (2010–2012) Advisor: Prof. Andrew G. Myers
PhD University of Vienna (2007–2009) Advisor: Prof. Johann Mulzer

Fellowships and Funding

2024 Bayer CropScience AG HX Research Grant
2024 FWF Stand-Alone Project “Exploring the Chemistry of Octadride Natural Products”
2024 Red Bull REDBEM Research Collaboration Phase II
2023 Bayer CropScience AG HyPag Research Grant
2022 Red Bull REDBEM Research Collaboration
2022 Bayer CropScience AG LoCoAg Research Grant
2022 Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council "CRAFTMOL"
2017–2021 Bayer CropScience AG Research Fund Phase I to V
2020 FWF Stand-Alone Project "Synthesis of Polycyclic Terpenoids Enabled by C–H Oxidation"
2019 Member of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND-Program ARDRE
2018 FWF Stand-Alone Project "High-Pressure in Total Synthesis"
2017 Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC-STRG) "HALODRUGSYN"
2016 Funding of the Dr. Otto-Röhm Gedächtnisstiftung
2015 FCI Sachkostenzuschuss
2015 SFB 749 "Dynamik und Intermediate molekularer Transformationen" (DFG, German Research Foundation)
2014 FCI Sachkostenzuschuss
2014 Transregio-SFB 152 „TRiPs to Homeostasis“ (DFG, German Research Foundation)
2013 Emmy Noether Fellowship (DFG, German Research Foundation)
2012 Liebig-Stipendium (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, FCI)
2010 Erwin Schrödinger Postdoctoral Fellowship (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, FWF)

Awards

2022 Research Award by the Südtiroler Sparkasse
2021 Liechtenstein Research Award
2019 Scientific Research Award of the Innsbruck Municipal Council
2017 DECHEMA Early-Career Researcher Prize for Natural Product Research
2017 Margaret L. Goering and Harlan L. Goering Visiting Professor in Organic Chemistry
2016 Arnold Sommerfeld-Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
2016 Dozentenpreis of the Chemical Industry Fund
2016 ORCHEM Young Investigator Award (Liebig Association)
2016 ADUC Prize (Association of German University Professors in Chemistry)
2015 Dr. Klaus Römer-Foundation Young Investigator Award
2015 BASF 150 Year Science Symposium Travel Grant
2015 JSP Bürgenstock Fellowship
2011 Doc PhD Thesis Award (University of Vienna and City of Vienna)
2010 DSM Science and Technology Awardee (DSM Europe)
2010 PhD Thesis Förderungspreis (Gesellschaft Österreichischer Chemiker, GÖCH)

Presentations

07/2024 Gordon Research Conference - Natural Products and Bioactive Compounds, Proctor Academy, USA
05/2024 57th Bürgenstock Conference, Brunnen, CH
10/2023 ICNS-CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, F
10/2023 ICMMO, Paris-Saclay University, Orsay, F
09/2023 Chemistry at the Interface of Biology and Medicine, Crete, GR
07/2023 Givaudan Suisse SA, Kemptthal, CH
05/2023 Masaryk and Charles University, Brno-Prague, CZ
07/2022 Boehringer Ingelheim INCEM, Innsbruck, AT
02/2022 ETOC Symposium, Amsterdam, NE (Zoom)
01/2022 OEAW Young Science E-Visit BORG Deutsch Wagram, AT (BBB)
12/2021 University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (Zoom)
09/2021 Basler Chemische Gesellschaft, Basel, CH (Zoom)
09/2021 GDCh-Wissenschaftsforum, Munich, DE (Zoom)
04/2021 Bayer Crop Science, Frankfurt, DE (Teams)
01/2021 University of Cologne, Cologne, DE (Zoom)
09/2020 Firmenich, Geneva, CH (Zoom)
02/2020 MIT, Cambridge, USA
11/2019 Bayer Crop Science, Frankfurt, DE
09/2019 SCRIPPS BiCoastal Seminar, La Jolla, USA
09/2019 CALTECH, Pasadena, USA
09/2019 UCSD, San Diego, USA
09/2019 UC Irvine, Irvine, USA
09/2019 UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
09/2019 BASF, St.Johann, DE
07/2019 European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC), Vienna, AT
06/2019 GdCh Lecture, Konstanz, DE
12/2018 MPI für Kohlenforschung, Mühlheim, DE
12/2018 Bayer AG, Wuppertal, DE
10/2018 EPFL, Lausanne, CH
10/2018 Symposium on Frontiers of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Beijing, CN
07/2018 Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Beerse, BE
06/2018 Boehringer Ingelheim, Ingelheim, DE
05/2018 TU Vienna, Vienna, AT
05/2018 Boehringer Ingelheim, Vienna, AT
05/2018 University of Vienna, Vienna, AT
04/2018 WissensDurst Festival, Innsbruck, AT
02/2018 University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
01/2018 CMBI Talk, Innsbruck, AT
12/2017 Sigma-Aldrich Lecture Yale University, New Haven, USA
11/2017 Aahrus University - TOKS, Aahrus, DK
09/2017 University of Zurich, Zurich, CH
09/2017 ICQ, Tarragona, ES
09/2017 Syngenta Crop Protection, Stein, CH
08/2017 Suisse Summer School, Villars-sur-Ollon, CH
08/2017 Novartis, Basel, CH
03/2017 ETH Zurich, Zurich, CH
03/2017 NYU, New York, USA
02/2017 University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
12/2016 University of Ulm, Ulm, DE
11/2016 SFB TRR 152, Karlsruhe, DE
11/2016 Leopold-Franzens-University, Innsbruck, AT
11/2016 University of Hannover, Hannover, DE
09/2016 ORCHEM Conference, Weimar, DE
07/2016 TU Berlin, Berlin, DE
07/2016 Bayer Crop Science, Frankfurt, DE
07/2016 Undergraduate Research Conference on Molecular Sciences (URCUP), Kloster Irsee, DE
04/2016 Bayer Pharma AG, Berlin, DE
03/2016 SFB 749 Meeting, Irsee, DE
03/2016 CDT, Heidelberg, DE
03/2016 University of Münster, Münster, DE
02/2016 28. Irseer Naturstofftage, Irsee, DE
01/2016 University of Graz, Graz, AT
12/2015 Pacifichem, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
11/2015 University of Marburg, Marburg, DE
11/2015 University of Tübingen, Tübingen, DE
11/2015 TUM, Munich, DE
10/2015 Tokyo–LMU Symposium, IZB Martinsried, DE
10/2015 HTI Konferenz, Schloß Beuggen, DE
09/2015 Beilstein-Symposium, Chiemsee, DE
09/2015 Chemietage, Innsbruck, AT
09/2015 Organic Chemistry Symposium, Basel, CH
09/2015 Bayer Pharma AG, Wuppertal, DE
08/2015 Zhejinng University, Hangzhou, CN
08/2015 SIOC, Chinese Acadamy of Sciences, Shanghai, CN
08/2015 Tianjin University, Tianjin, CN
08/2015 Nankai University, Tianjin, CN
08/2015 Peking University, Peking, CN
07/2015 University of Freiburg, Freiburg, DE
06/2015 Boston University, Boston, USA
06/2015 BASF Creator Space Science Symposium, Chicago, USA
04/2015 Bürgenstock Konferenz, Brunnen, CH
03/2015 University of Bayreuth, DE
03/2015 CDT, Regensburg, DE
11/2014 Kick-off-Meeting TRR SFB 152, Mont Sainte-Odile, FR
07/2014 Undergraduate Research Conference on Molecular Sciences (URCUP), Wildbad Kreuth, DE
06/2014 Steinheimer Gespräche, Bad Homburg, DE
04/2014 SFB749 Symposium, Venedig, IT
03/2014 Chemiedozententagung, Paderborn, DE
02/2014 TRR SFB 152, Walther-Straub-Institut, Munich, DE
12/2013 GÖCH Seminar, JKU Linz, AT
09/2013 Biorganische Chemie Symposium 2013, Münster, DE
06/2013 Steinheimer Gespräche, Bad Homburg, DE
03/2013 Chemiedozententagung-Agewandte Chemie Symposium, Berlin, DE