CV Svetlana B. Tsogoeva

Prof. Dr. Svetlana B. Tsogoeva (Image: FAU/Erich Malter)

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Svetlana B. Tsogoeva is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, since February 2007. She received her Diploma in Chemistry with Distinction in 1995 from St. Petersburg State University, where she completed her doctoral thesis in 1998 on the “Synthesis of Modified Analogues of Steroid Estrogens” supported by Procter & Gamble. In 1998, she moved to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany, for a postdoctoral project under the sponsorship of the DFG (Graduate School “Chemische und Biologische Synthese von Wirkstoffen”), where she was dealing with the synthesis of chiral amidinium ions and their application as organocatalysts for the preparation of (+)-estrone derivatives using Diels-Alder reactions. In July 2000 she joined the Degussa AG Fine Chemicals Division in Hanau-Wolfgang, Germany as a research scientist, where she has been working on the synthesis and the application of new oligopeptide catalysts for the enantioselective Julia-Colonna asymmetric epoxidation of olefins.  In January 2002 she was appointed a First Junior Professor in Germany at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen, where she established her own research group supported by BMBF, DFG, FCI and Degussa AG. Her research is currently focused on asymmetric organocatalysis, one-pot & domino processes (Science Magazine; Phys.Org; EurekAlert! Science News), deracemization of chiral bioactive compounds by autocatalytic crystallization (CORE ITN & Pharmaindustrie-online.DE    CHEMIE.DE    Medizin-Aspekte.DE), synthesis of artemisinin-derived hybrids for medicinal chemistry (Feature ARTICLE), as well as chemistry in live cells.

Professional Experience and Education

02/2007 – present: Professor of Organic Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry I, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

01/2002 – 01/2007: Junior Professor, Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Göttingen

07/2000 – 12/2001: Research Scientist, Fine Chemicals Division, Degussa AG and Creavis GmbH

11/1998 – 06/2000: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, DFG, Graduiertenkolleg “Chemische und Biologische Synthese von Wirkstoffen”, Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Frankfurt/Main

10/1998: Doctor of Chemical Science Degree  (Russian equivalent of PhD degree), Natural products chemistry chair, Department of Chemistry, St.-Petersburg State University

06/1995: Diploma in Chemistry with highest honours, Department of Chemistry, St.-Petersburg State University

07/1990: School-leaving certificate with gold medal, Secondary School

Awards, Distinctions, Fellowships & Selected Grants

2024: Among the top 2% of most cited researchers worldwide (Stanford List 2024)

2024: Senior Editor for ACS Central Science

2023: Among the top 2% of most cited researchers worldwide (Stanford List 2023)

2023-2025: Research Grant from the Volkswagen Foundation

2020-2022: Research Grant from the Wilhelm Sander-Stiftung

2021: Among the top 2% of most cited researchers worldwide (Stanford List 2021)

2017-2020: EU Horizon 2020 Research Grant

2015-2017: Research Grant from the Wilhelm Sander-Stiftung

2012: Otto-Röhm Research Award

2008: Tetrahedron: Asymmetry “Most Cited Paper 2005-2008 Award”

2007: Thieme Chemistry Journal Award 2007

2007: Research Grant from the Nieders. Vorab der VolkswagenStiftung

2006: CERC3 (Chairmen of the European Research Councils’s Chemistry Committees) Lecture Travel Award

2006: GDCh (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker) Lecture Travel Award

2006: FCI (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie) Lecture Travel Award

2005: JSP Junior Scientist Award (EUCHEM)

2003: Research Award from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI)

1998-2000: DFG Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

1995-1998: Procter & Gamble Postgraduate Research Fellowship

Editorial Board / Advisory Board Member

ACS Central Science (since 2024)

ChemPhysChem (since 2023)

Scientific Reports (since 2022)

ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters (since 2020)

Pharmaceuticals (since 2019)

PeerJ Organic Chemistry (since 2019)

Symmetry (since 2009)

Guest Editor Symmetry, Special Issue on “Asymmetric Organocatalysis“, 2011

Guest Editor Symmetry, Special Issue on “Asymmetric Catalysis“, 2015

Guest Editor MOLECULES, Special Issue “Artemisinin: Against Malaria, Cancer and Viruses“, 2016/2017

Guest Editor (with co-Guest Editors L. Ackermann and G. Dong) ChemCatChem, Special Collection “The Catalysis of Ring Synthesis“, 2020/2021

Guest Editor (with co-Guest Editors M. Gütschow and A. O. Terent’ev) Pharmaceuticals, Special Issue “Recent Advances in Antiviral, Anticancer and Antimalarial Therapy using Artemisinins and Synthetic Mimics”, 2021

Guest Editor Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, Special Issue “Catalytic multi-step domino and one-pot reactions”, 2023

Professional services

Conference/Symposium Organizing Committee 

Award Selection Committee Member:

Reviewer of Research Grants for:

  • ACS PRF (American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund)
  • DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
  • ERC (European Research Council) Consolidator Grants
  • FWF (Austrian Science Fund)
  • FRC (The Frontier Research in Chemistry Foundation, France)
  • ISF (Israel Science Foundation)
  • NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) 

Reviewer of Manuscripts for:

  • Angew. Chem.; Acc. Chem. Res.; ACS Catalysis; ACS Central Science; Adv. Synth. Catal.; Asian J. Org. Chem.;
  • Science;  Scientific Reports; Synlett; Synthesis; Symmetry;
  • Nature Chemistry; Nature Communications; New J. Chem.;
  • JACS; J. Med. Chem., J. Org. Chem.;
  • Chemical Science; Chem. Eur. J.; Chem. Asian J.; Chem. Commun.; ChemCatChem.; ChemMedChem; ChemPhysChem; ChemSusChem; Catal. Sci. Technol.; Can. J. Chem.; Chirality; Commun. Chem. – Nature;
  • Beilstein J. Org. Chem.; Bioorg. Med. Chem.;
  • Green Chemistry;
  • Eur. J. Org. Chem.; Eur. J. Med. Chem.; Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery; Eur. J. Inorg. Chem.;
  • Molecules;
  • Org. Lett.; Org. Chem. Front.; Org. Biomol. Chem.;
  • RSC Advances;
  • Tetrahedron: Asymmetry; Tetrahedron; Tetrahedron Letters; Topics in Catalysis

Memberships

German Chemical Society (GDCh, since 2004)

Liebig‐Association for Organic Chemistry (since 2004)

American Chemical Society (ACS, since 2005)

German Catalysis Society (GeCatS, since 2012)

Other Memberships / Activities

FAU Competence Center Engineering of Advanced Materials (FAU EAM)

CM0703 COST Action on “Systems Chemistry”

Erlangen Center for Interface Research and Catalysis

Graduate School Molecular Science (GSMS)

Emil Fischer Graduate School (EFS)

Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM)

CORE Steering Committee & Supervisory Board

Applied Protein Centre Erlangen (APCE)

Memberships / Activities at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

10/2023 – present:   Vorsitzende des Promotionsausschusses der Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät

10/2023 – present:   Mitglied der Kollegialen Leitung Department Chemie und Pharmazie

04/2023 – present:   Beiratsmitglied des Universitätsbundes Erlangen Nürnberg

10/2014 – present:    Mitglied des Promotionsausschusses der Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät

05/2014 – 10/2021:   Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats der FAU University Press

10/2013 – present:    Mitglied des Fakultätsunterausschusses für die Verwendung der Studienzuschüsse in der Lehreinheit Chemie

05/2013 – 04/2020:  Beiratsmitglied des Universitätsbundes Erlangen-Nürnberg e.V.

11/2010 – present:    Mitglied des Prüfungsausschusses für Chemie, Molecular Science (Diplom, Bachelor, Master)