Professional Activities

Administrative Functions at the University of Innsbruck

Head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry (1993 - 1996, 2001 - 2004, 2008 - 2013)
Vice Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Natural Sciences (2001 - 2003)
Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy (2004 - 2006)
Head of the Center for Molecular Biosciences Innsbruck (2008)

Membership in Scientific Academies

Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1999 - 2009)
Full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (since 2009)
Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (since 2006)

Membership in Editorial Boards

Chemistry & Biodiversity (Editorial Advisory Board)

Membership in Scientific Societies

Austrian Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Österreichicher Chemiker),
Member of the Board (1991 - 1994), Vice-President (1994 - 1998), 2001 - 2002),
President (1999 - 2000)
German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker)
Swiss Chemical Society (Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft)
International Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (Austrian Representative)
Hans Fischer Gesellschaft, München

Scientific Congresses organized

Natural Porphyrinoid Pigments
Symposium at the 12^th Intl. Conf. Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-12),
Madrid (Spain), July 2022

Natural Porphyrinoid Pigments
Symposium at the 11^th Intl. Conf. Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-11),
Virtual meeting, June-July 2021

Natural Porphyrinoid Pigments
Symposium at the 10^th Intl. Conf. Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-10),
Munich (Germany), July 2018

Natural Porphyrinoid Pigments – Structure, Function and Synthesis
Symposium at the 9^th Intl. Conf. Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-9),
Nanjing (China), July 2016

Natural Porphyrinoid Pigments – Structure, Function and Synthesis
Symposium at the 8^th Intl. Conf. Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-8),
Istanbul (Turkey), June 2014

Natural Porphyrinoid Pigments – Structure, Function and Synthesis
Symposium at the 7^th Intl. Conf. Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-7),
Jeju-Island (South Korea), July 2012)

Natural Porphyrinoid Pigments – Structure, Function and Synthesis
Symposium at the 6^th Intl. Conf. Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-6),
New Mexico (USA), July 2010

Gordon Research Conference on Vitamin B₁₂ and Corphins
University of Oxford, UK, August 2009 (chairman)

Gordon Research Conference on Vitamin B₁₂ and Corphins
University of New England, Biddeford, USA, July 2007 (vice chairman)

41^th EUCHEM Conference on Stereochemistry
Bürgenstock, Switzerland, May 2006 (president)

40^th EUCHEM Conference on Stereochemistry
Bürgenstock, Switzerland, May 2005 (vice president)

9. Österreichische Chemietage
Innsbruck, September 2000 (president and chairman)

5^th European Symposium on Vitamin B12 and B12-Proteins
Marburg (Germany), September 2000 (co-chairman)

34^th European Symposium on Bioorganic Chemistry
Chemistry and Chemical Biology of Oligonucleotides, May 2000 (chairman)

33^rd European Symposium on Bioorganic Chemistry
May 1999 (vice chairman)

4^th European Symposium on Vitamin B12 and B12-Proteins
Innsbruck, September 1996 (chairman)

Igler MS Tage, Perspectives in Analytical and Biostructural Mass Spectrometry
Igls (Innsbruck), Obergurgl, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 (chairman)

Igler NMR Tage, Perspectives in Biostructural NMR-Spectroscopy
Igls (Innsbruck), Obergurgl, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 (chairman)