CURRICULUM     VITAE   of   CURT    WENTRUP

1966                Candidatus Scientiarum (~BSc Hons), University of Copenhagen (with Prof. K. A. Jensen).

1969                PhD at the Australian National University, Canberra (with Prof. W. D. Crow)

1977                Doctor Scientiarum (D.Sc.), University of Copenhagen

Positions held:

1969-76           Research Associate and subsequently ‘Privat-docent’(~Assistant Professor) at the Institut de Chimie Organique, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland  (Chairman: Prof. H. Dahn). 

1976-85           Appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University of Marburg, Germany.

1985-               Appointed to the Chair of Organic Chemistry and Head of Organic Chemistry Section, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

2008-               Emeritus Professor, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

2008-               Editor-in-Chief, Australian Journal of Chemistry

Awards:

2000:                Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

2003:                Centenary Medal of the Australian Commonwealth       

            VisitingFellowships and Professorships:

Visiting Fellow, Princeton University (with Prof. Maitland Jones, Jr.; 1975); Professeur Invité, Chaire Capita Selecta, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (Prof. H.G. Viehe; 1979-80). Visiting Professor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA (Prof. J. Michl; 1983); Visiting Professor, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (Prof. J.F.M. Oth; 1989); Professeur Invité, Université de Pau, France (Dr Geneviève Pfister-Guillouzo, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire). Visiting Scientist, CNRS, Toulouse (Dr Guy Bertrand; 1992); "Chair of Visiting Professor", Kyushu University, Japan (Prof. H. Iwamura;1996). Vis. Fellow NIMC, Tsukuba, Japan (Dr A. Yabe; 1999). Professeur Invité, Université de Provence, Marseille (Prof. H. Bodot and 1993). Professeur Associé, Université de Provence (Prof. J.-P. Aycard, Dr. F. Borget; 1998, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007-8, 2009-10); Visiting Professor, University of Southern Denmark (Prof. C. Th. Pedersen; 2000, 2004, 2005, 2008).

            Publications

Over 300 publications since 1966; books: Reactive Intermediates, Georg Thieme Verlag 1977; Reactive Molecules, Wiley-Interscience 1984.

            Plenary Lectures, Professional Activities, etc:

ca. 100 Invitations to give plenary/invited/special lectures at conferences, symposia etc since 1975.  Chair or member of executive or advisory committees of several national and international conferences. Past member, IUPAC working party on class names of reactive intermediates. Past representative for Australia on IUPAC Commissions on photochemistry and physical organic chemistry. Past member or Chair of School, Faculty and University research committees. Past member of several Academy of Science selection committees. Int-Reader for ARC and frequent assessor for international granting bodies. Member of the editorial or advisory boards of Synthesis, Acta Chemica Scandinavica (till 2000), Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry (till 1999), Chemistry: A European Journal (till 2001), Progress in Physical Organic Chemistry and Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry. Member of the Managing Board of Chemistry in Australia.  North-Eastern representative on the Board of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. Chair of National Committee for Chemistry of the Australian Academyof Science (2009-).

Reactive intermediates (carbenes, nitrenes, ylides, cumulenes, diradicals), organic reaction mechanisms, flash vacuum thermolysis, matrix isolation spectroscopy, photochemistry, and microwave-assisted organic reactions.