Prof. Dr. Oliver Reiser

Short Biography:

Oliver Reiser, born August 11, 1962 in Hamburg, studied chemistry at the universities of Hamburg, Jerusalem and Los Angeles (UCLA). He obtained his PhD in 1989 at the university of Hamburg working on New Synthetic Stratgies toward Polycyclic Aromatic π-Systems and their Metal ComplexeswithParallel and Orthogonal constrained Subunitsin the group of Prof. Dr. A. de Meijere. He spent 2.5 years as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. R. Miller, IBM Research Center, San Jose, USA and with Prof. Dr. D. A. Evans, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. In 1992 he moved to the  Universität Göttingen as assistant professor working in the field of  stereoselective synthesis and catalysis taking under special consideration the application of high pressure in liquid phases.

In 1994 he was a visiting assistant professor at  Harvard University, and in 1995 he became adjunct professor at the University of Göttingen.  In 1996 he moved to the Universität Stuttgart as associate professor. In November 1997 he moved to the  Universität Regensburg as full professor.

He received fellowships from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, the Minerva foundation, the NATO, the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Karl Winnacker Stiftung.