Jonathan Nitschke
Jonathan Nitschke was born in 1973 in Syracuse, New York. Following undergraduate and graduate studies in the US, he undertook postdoctoral studies in France, and then started an independent research career at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). The group has been based at the University of Cambridge since November 2007.
Education and Work Experience
University Lecturer and Walters-Kundert Next Generation Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, from November 2007
Maître-assistant, then Swiss National Science Foundation Assistant Professor, Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva, August 2003 - October 2007
Postdoctoral Fellow with Jean-Marie Lehn, (US NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship), Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, July 2001 - July 2003
Doctoral Student with T. Don Tilley, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley. PhD awarded May 2001
Undergraduate Student (Bachelor's Degree cum laude with Honors awarded June 1995), Williams College, Massachusetts, September 1991 - May 1995
Undergraduate NSF REU Researcher at SRI International, Menlo Park, California, summer 1994
Undergraduate Researcher at Nanoptics, Inc., Gainesville, Florida, summers 1992 and 1993
Awards and Honours
European Young Chemist Award, 1st Prize, presented following a competition open to all chemists under 34 years of age working in Europe (120 entrants) at the 1st European Chemistry Congress in Budapest, August 2006; media coverage included television and radio interviews, five newspaper and magazine articles, and write-ups in Angewandte Chemie, Chemical & Engineering News, and Chemistry-A European Journal.
Werner Prize, the top award of the Swiss Chemical Society, presented annually to a researcher in Switzerland under the age of 40. Awarded at the fall 2007 Swiss Chemical Society Meeting, Lausanne.
Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship, an award that would have covered four to six years of salary and research support in Switzerland (CHF 1.58M), starting August 2007. Withdrawn upon the PI's move to Cambridge.
Plenary Lectures at the Supramolecular Nanosciences of Chemically Programmed Pigments Conference (SNCPP06), Ritsumeikan University, Japan, June 2006, and at the Semaine d'Études en Chimie Organique (SECO42) Conference, Urrugne, France, May 2005.
Royal Society of Chemistry Griess Lectureship of the East Midlands (Universities of Leicester, Loughborough and Nottingham, UK), November 2007.