Thomas Seidensticker

Project group Renewlysis

Dr. Thomas Seidensticker

TU Dortmund
Department of Biochemical and
Chemical Engineering
Emil-Figgestr. 66
44227 Dortmund
Building G1
Room: 5.20

Organizational units
Lehrstuhl für Technische Chemie A
Fakultät Bio- und Chemieingenieurwesen

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Website of the laboratories for industrial chemistry @TU Dortmund University:
http://www.tc.bci.tu-dortmund.de/

1987 born in Marl (Westf.), Germany
2007-2010 Bachelor of Science, TU Dortmund University, “Hydroaminomethylation of methyl oleate with proline“ (Prof. Arno Behr and Dr. Andreas J. Vorholt)
2010-2012 Master of Science, TU Dortmund University, “Nickel-catalyzed linear dimerization of isobutene” (Prof. Arno Behr)
2011 Erasmus Scholarship, Research Stay at University of St. Andrews with Prof. David J. Cole-Hamilton
2013-2016 Doctorate in Chemistry (Dr. rer. nat., with distinction, summa cum laude), TU Dortmund University, “Development of Catalytic Tandem Reaction Systems in the Context of Green Chemistry” (Prof. Arno Behr and Dr. Andreas J. Vorholt)
2016-2017 Post-Doc, TU Dortmund University, (Prof. Arno Behr)
Since 2017 Junior Research Group leader, TU Dortmund University, Laboratories for Industrial Chemistry

2021 Carl-Zerbe Price for Young Scientists, awarded by the Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Erdöl, Erdgas und Kohle e.V. (DGMK)
2021 H.P. Kaufmann-Price for his work „Die Umsetzung ungesättigter Oleochemikalien zur Erzeugung nachhaltiger chemischer Zwischenprodukte mittels homogener Übergangsmetallkatalyse.“ awarded by the DGF (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fettwissenschaft).
2020 Literature Prize of the „Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI)” (Chemical Industry Fund) for the textbook "Einführung in die Chemie nachwachsender Rohstoffe”
2018 Prize for the best doctoral thesis in the field of sustainable chemistry awarded by the Sustainable Chemistry Division of the GDCh
2017 Award for Best Dissertation in 2016 at the Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, TU Dortmund University

2013-2015 Ph.D. Chemiefond-Scholarship of „Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI)”, two-year full-time scholarship
2011-2012 “Deutschland-Stipendium”, Lanxess AG