RITTER GROUP

Education

• Ph.D. Organic Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 2005
• M.S. Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany 1999

Appointment

• Associate Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University 2010 – present
• Associate Chemist, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital 2010 – present
• Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University 2006 – 2010
• Chief Technology Officer and Scientific Founder, Scifluor 2011 – present

Research Interests

• Synthetic organic and organometallic chemistry; development of new synthetic methods based on transition metal catalysis; synthesis of biologically active natural and unnatural products

Awards

• Popular Science Brilliant 10 Award 2011
• Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award 2011
• BASF Catalysis Award 2011
• Roslyn Abramson Award for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduates 2010
• AstraZeneca Excellence in Science Award 2010
• Amgen Young Investigator Award 2010
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship 2010
• NSF Career Award 2010 – 2015
• Air Force Young Investigator Award 2010 – 2013
• Eli Lilly Grantee Award 2010 – 2012
• Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award 2009
• Massachusetts Life Science Center Young Investigator Award 2009 – 2011
• Smith Family Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research 2009 – 2011
• Milton Fund Award, Harvard Medical School 2008
• Thieme Chemistry Journals Award 2007
• Postdoctoral Fellowship (DAAD) 2004 – 2006
• Kekulé-Scholarship of the Fond der Chemischen Industie e.V. 2000 – 2002
• Winterfeld Award - Towards the Total Synthesis of Teretifolione B 2000
• Fellowship of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation 1998 – 1999
• Scholarship of the Swiss National Science Foundation 1997 – 1998
• Scholarship of the European Union 1997
• Scholarship of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation 1996 – 1999

Invited Lectures

• Gordon Research Conference–Heterocycles 2008
• Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center 2008
• University of Puerto Rico 2009
• University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth 2009
• Sepracor 2009
• Bristol-Myers Squibb 2009
• NSF workshop on Organic Synthesis and Natural Products Chemistry 2009
• Rising Organic Chemists in Catalysis (ROCCAT) 2009
• Amgen, Cambridge 2009
• Eli Lilly and Company 2009
• Abbott Labs 2009
• University of Pennsylvania 2009
• Princeton University 2009
• ETH, Lausanne 2009
• University of California–Irvine 2010
• University of California–Los Angeles 2010
• Boston University, Novartis Lecture 2010
• Dartmouth University 2010
• Bristol Myers Squibb, Wallingford 2010
• Bayer AG, Berlin, Germany 2010
• Bayer AG, Wuppertal, Germany 2010
• Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany 2010
• ACS National Meeting, San Francisco 2010
• Johnson & Johnson, La Jolla 2010
• University of California–San Diego 2010
• The Scripps Research Institute 2010
• Amgen, San Francisco 2010
• University of Wisconsin–Madison, Eli Lilly Young Investigator Lecture 2010
• Merck, West Point 2010
• Merck, Rahway 2010
• Northeastern Regional Meeting, American Chemical Society 2010
• Weizmann Institute, Israel 2010
• Tel Aviv University 2010
• Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Mordecai and Rivka Rubin Lecture 2010
• Pfizer, Groton 2010
• ICIQ Summer School, Tarragona 2010
• Gordon Research Conference, Stereochemistry 2010
• American Chemical Society, National Meeting, Boston 2010
• Bayer CropScience 2010
• ORGCHEM–Weimar 2010
• AstraZeneca, Waltham 2010
• University of California–Santa Barbara 2010
• Amgen, Thousand Oaks 2010
• McGill University, Canada 2010
• Pacifichem 2010
• Winter Flourine Conference, St. Pete Beach 2011
• Dow Chemicals, Midland 2011
• Merck, Boston 2011
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany 2011
• Sanofi-Aventis, Frankfurt, Germany 2011
• Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim, Germany 2011
• University of Munster, Germany 2011
• Hoffman-La Roche, Nutley 2011
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2011
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2011
• ACS National Meeting, Anaheim 2011
• Genentech, South San Francisco 2011
• Theravance, South San Francisco 2011
• University of California-Berkeley 2011
• RSC Organic Symposium, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom 2011
• Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom 2011
• University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom 2011
• GlaxoSmithKline, Stevenage, United Kingdom 2011
• Syngenta, Bracknell, Berkshire 2011
• University of Minnesota 2011
• California Institute of Technology 2011
• Annual Graduate Student Symposium, University of Buffalo 2011
• High Throughput Chemistry & Chemical Biology Gordon Research Conference 2011
• Heterocycles Gordon Research Conference 2011
• BASF Catalysis Award, BASF, Germany 2011
• Organic Reactions and Processes Gordon Research Conference 2011
• Natural Products Gordon Research Conference 2011
• Medicinal Chemistry Gordon Research Conference 2011
• University of California-Los Angeles, Crump Institute 2011
• ACS National Meeting, Denver 2011
• Dow Corning, Midland, Michigan 2011
• GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia 2011
• Princeton ACS Meeting, Princeton 2011
• Harvard University 2011
• Boston College 2011
• New Jersey Biotechnology Chemistry Consortium 2011
• Northeastern University, Boston 2011
• ETH Zürich, Switzerland 2011
• Yale University 2012
• University of Oregon 2012
• Columbia University, New York 2012
• University of California-San Francisco 2012
• The Padwa Lecture, Columbia University 2012
• Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis 2012
• ACS National Meeting, San Diego 2012
• National RSC Meeting, Warick, UK 2012
• ANORCQ Conference, Caen, France 2012
• École Nationale Supérieure de Chemie de Paris, Paris, France 2012
• DuPont, Wilmington 2012
• GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 2012
• University of Toronto 2012
• ISACS 7, Edinburgh, UK 2012
• Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium, Leuven, Belgium 2012
• Dreyfus Foundation, New York 2012
• Meyers Symposium, Colorodo State University 2012