Degussa fosters Professorship in Organic Synthetic Methods

11-Oct-2004

On October 7, 2004, Prof. Magnus Rüping (32) held his inaugural lecture in connection with the Professorship in Organic Synthetic Methods endowed on Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt on Main by Degussa AG of Dusseldorf, Germany. Dr. Alfred Oberholz, Degussa Management Board Member responsible for Research and Development, stated: "We are very pleased to have gained Prof. Magnus Rüping for the endowment professorship. His appointment enables us to purposefully expand our collaboration with Johann Wolfgang Goethe University." Degussa is supporting the C3-professorship for a period of five years, thus supporting the training of future scientists as well as the cooperation of science and industry at the university's Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Department. Rüping studied chemistry and food chemistry in Berlin, Dublin und Zurich and went on to obtain his Ph.D. in 2002 at the Seebach group at the Laboratory of Organic chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, after which he joined the Evans group at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical biology at Harvard University. His research work mainly focuses on the possibilities offered by organic synthetic methods in practical application. The main emphasis of the endowment professorship will be placed on the development and use of synthetic approaches to solving chemical, biological and physical problems. In the process, the training of a new generation of scientists is to be supplemented by interdisciplinary project work. Extensive promotion of the sciences In financing the new endowment professorship, Degussa is continuing its longstanding involvement with Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, where it has been promoting the cooperation of science and the chemical industry by means of endowed visiting professorships since 1986. Noted scientists, including the Nobel Laureate Prof. Richard Ernst, have followed calls from Frankfurt to conduct research and present their work in lecture form - a concept that has proved to be outstandingly successful. The new Professorship for Organic Synthetic Methods is one of the four endowment professorships that Degussa is currently supporting with EUR6 million altogether in funds. Above and beyond this, numerous Degussa executives work as honorary professors at various universities.

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