Michael / Prof
Michael Reithofer
Michael Reithofer
Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Michael Reithofer
Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Michael Reithofer
Current position: Associate Professor at Institute of Inorganic Chemistry in University of Vienna.
Short Bio
Michael Reithofer was born and grew up in Vienna, Austria. He attended his B.Sc. studies at the University of Vienna. After this, he stayed on at the same university to complete his PhD (2006) under the supervision of Professor Dr. Dr. Bernhard K. Keppler.
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United States of Amerika and specifically Massachusetts Institute of Technology was the next stop, where he was a postdoctoral fellow (2008) under the supervision of Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Richard R. Schrock.
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In 2010, he moved in Singapore to work as a research scientist at Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at A-STAR. After 4 years in Singapore, he was offered a lecturer job at Hull University, where he moved in 2014. There, he assembled his first scientific team.
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In 2017, he got an assistant professor position at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of University Vienna, and during the next year he became an associate professor. So, he started to assemble there a new scientific group at his brand-new laboratory.
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Employment
2018 – Present Associate Professor at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Vienna
2017 – 2018 Assistant Professor at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Vienna
2014 – 2017 Lecturer in Organic Chemistry with tenure, School of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Hull, United Kingdom
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2010 – 2014 Research Scientist, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, A-STAR, Singapore
2006 – 2008 Teaching Assistant (Assistent in Ausbildung), Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Vienna.
Education
2016 – 2017 Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, University of Hull
2008 – 2010 Postdoctoral Fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry, United States of America
Supervisor: Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Richard R. Schrock
2006 – 2008 PhD in Chemistry University of Vienna
Thesis: Development of Novel Anticancer Platinum(IV) Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization and Cytotoxic Properties
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Dr. Bernhard K. Keppler
2000 – 2005 Chemistry studies, University of Vienna.
Fellowships
2008 – 2010 Erwin-Schrödinger Postdoctoral Fellowship: "Catalytic Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia at a Single Molybdenum Center; New Strategies for Ligand Synthesis and their Application", Austrian Science Foundation.
2007 Research-Fellowship (Föderstipendium), University of Vienna.
Grands, Awards & Prizes
2017 The Leverhulme Trust “Hierarchical and Emergent Assembly through the Marriage of DNA and Peptides”, Co-Investigator.
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2012 Team Winner of the Agency for Science Technology and Research Young Researcher Collaborative Grant competition.
2012 Peoples’ Choice Award Winner Agency for Science Technology and Research Young Researcher Collaborative Grant competition.
2009 Grant for Academic Excellence (Leistungsstipendium), University of Vienna.
2008 Award of Excellence for outstanding Ph.D. research, Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research.
2008 Erwin-Schrödinger Postdoctoral Fellowship: "Catalytic Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia at a Single Molybdenum Center; New Strategies for Ligand Synthesis and their Application", Austrian Science Foundation.
2007 Research-Fellowship (Föderstipendium), University of Vienna.
2007 Award for Academic Excellence (Leistungsstipendium), University of Vienna.
2006 Award for Academic Excellence (Leistungsstipendium), University of Vienna.
2005 Award for Academic Excellence (Leistungsstipendium), University of Vienna.
2005 Award for Academic Excellence (Leistungsstipendium aus Stiftung und Sondervermögen), University of Vienna.
2004 Award for Academic Excellence (Leistungsstipendium), University of Vienna.