Background
Carell was born in 1966 in Herford Germany, he studied chemistry from 1985 till 1990 at the University of Münster finishing with a diploma thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research Heidelberg.
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Thomas Carell
Edit Profilebiochemist biologist chemist university professor
Education
After his Doctor of Philosophy thesis on Porphyrin chemistry at the same institute, he did his postdoctoral at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. He finished his habilitation on deoxyribonucleic acid repair proteins at the Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich in 1998.
Career
From 2000 till 2004 he was Professor for organic chemistry at the University of Marburg until he became Professor for organic chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. His main interest is still the deoxyribonucleic acid repair system. In 2008, he was awarded the Otto-Bayer-Prize for his work on the deoxyribonucleic acid repair systems
Since 2010, Professor Carell has been an Associate Editor of Chemical Science, the flagship general chemistry journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Achievements
Membership
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
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Germany
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Awards
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Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize or in short the Leibniz Prize is a research prize awarded by the German Research Foundation every year since 1985 to exceptional scientists and academics working in Germany for their outstanding achievements in the field of research.The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize or in short the Leibniz Prize is a research prize awarded by the German Research Foundation every year since 1985 to exceptional scientists and academics working in Germany for their outstanding achievements in the field of research.