Johann Mulzer

Johann Mulzer (* August 5, 1944 in Prien am Chiemsee ) is a German chemist with specialization in Organic Chemistry and since 1996 professor at the University of Vienna.

Life

Mulzer studied from 1963 to 1969 chemistry at the Ludwig -Maximilians- University of Munich; In 1969 he received his diploma. He received his doctorate in 1974 with the work stereoisomerization and ring expansion at Styrylcyclopropanen: a contribution to the trimethylene problem with Rolf Huisgen also at LMU Munich. He spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and completed his habilitation in 1980, again in Munich, where he subsequently held a C3 professorship until 1982. After another C3-Professor at the Heinrich -Heine- University Dusseldorf Mulzer was 1984-1995 C4 - Professor for Organic Chemistry at the Free University of Berlin, after which he spent a year at the Johann -Wolfgang- Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, in 1996, he moved to a professorship of organic chemistry at the University of Vienna.

Mulzer is known for his work on natural product synthesis and the chemistry of natural products.

Prizes and awards

• 2010 Emil Fischer Medal of the German Chemical Society
• 2002 Elected corresponding member of the mathematics and science class at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• In 2002, the City of Vienna Prize for Natural Sciences
• 1999 Erwin Schrödinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 1997 Ernst Schering Prize of the Ernst Schering Research Foundation
• 1994 Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft