Key Lectureships
2024
Eun Lee Lectureship, Seoul National University, Korea
2023
Barluenga Lectureship, University of Oviedo, Spain
2023
Backer Lecture, University of Groningen, Netherlands
2023
Pharmaron Lecture Series: Frontiers in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry (online)
2022
Heilbronner-Hückel Lectureship, Swiss Chemical Society (postponed to 2023)
2021
Gilbert-Stork-Lectureship, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
2019
Patai-Rappoport Lecture, ESOC 2019, Vienna (Austria)
2018
George Büchi Lectureship, MIT, Cambridge (USA)
2018
Novartis Lecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA)
2018
Ernest E. Campaigne Lecture, University of Indiana, Bloomington (USA)
2018
Givaudan-Karrer Lecturer, University of Zürich (Switzerland)
2017
Bohlmann Lecture, TU Berlin (Germany)
2017
Xingda Lectureship, Peking University, Beijing (China)
2016
Stork Lecture, Columbia University, New York (USA)
2016
Inaugural Adolf Lieben-Lectureship (Austria)
2015
Sandin Lecture, Edmonton (Canada)
2015
Adolf-Windaus-Gedächtnis Vorlesung, Göttingen (Germany)
2015
Organic Synthesis Lecture, University of California, Irvine (USA)
2015
Heathcock Lecture, Berkeley (USA)
2014
Siegfried-Hünig Vorlesung, Würzburg (Germany)
2013
Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Lectureship (Spain)
2012
Inaugural Novartis Eastern Europe Lectureship (Russia & Poland)
2012
Musgrave Lecture, Durham University (UK)
2011
Lilly European Distinguished Lectureship (Greece)
2009
Astellas Lecture, Tokyo (Japan)
2008
Sir Robert Robinson Distinguished Lecture, Liverpool (UK)
2008
Westschweizer Graduierten Kolleg (3ème Cycle) (Switzerland)
2008
Andrew Derome Lecture, Oxford (UK)
2007
Eli Lilly Lecture, Harvard University (USA)
2007
Roessler Lecture Series, Cornell University (USA)
2007
Pfizer Michigan Lectureship (USA)
2005
Abbott Process Chemistry Lecture, Chicago (USA)
2005
Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture, Princeton (USA)
2004
Merck Frosst Lecture, Montreal (Canada)
2004
Wyeth Lecture, MIT, Cambridge (USA)
2004
Merck Lectureship, Cambridge (UK)
2004
Centenary Lectureship der Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
2003
Pfizer Symposium Lecture, Irvine (USA)
2002
Novartis Central Europe Lectureship (Czech Republic - Slovakia - Hungary)
2001
Victor Grignard - Georg Wittig Lecture (France)
2000
Holm Lecture, Kopenhagen (Denmark)
1999
Bürgenstock (Switzerland)
1999
Organic Reactions Lectureship Series (USA)
1999
Merck-Frosst Lecture, Toronto (Canada)
1999
16th H. C. Brown Lecturer, Purdue (USA)
1997
Novartis Lectureship (Switzerland)
1997
Nozaki Lecture (Japan)
and > 200 Plenary or Invited Lectures at Conferences, Symposia, Universities or in Industry