Corinna Schindler
Corinna Schindler, Ph.D.
(she/her/hers)
Principal Investigator
corinnas(at)umich.edu
September 2021
September 2019
September 2013
2010 - 2013
2005 - 2010
1999 - 2004
Professor, University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science and the Arts
Associate Professor, University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science and the Arts
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science and the Arts
Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Ph.D. ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Diploma (German Equivalent M.Sc.), Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Corinna was born and raised in Schwaebisch Hall, Germany. As an undergraduate at the Technical University of Munich, she worked in the area of organometallic chemistry. Upon completion of her Diploma Thesis at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla in the laboratory of K.C. Nicolaou, she joined the research group of Erick M. Carreira at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland for her graduate studies. During her time in the Carreira group Corinna worked on developing novel synthetic methodologies as well as successful synthetic strategies to access Banyaside A and Microcin SF608. For her postdoctoral studies, Corinna joined the laboratory of Eric N. Jacobsen at Harvard University as a Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellow to work in the field of asymmetric catalysis.
Since 2021 Associate Editor for Tetrahedron
Since 2021 Associate Editor for Synthesis
Awards
2020 ACS Pure Chemistry Award
2020 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
2020 Henry Russel Award (University of Michigan)
2019 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Award
2019 Eli Lilly Grantee Award
2019 Lectureship Award;
The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (SSOCJ)
2019 Marion Milligan Mason Award
2018 Nature Inspiring Science Award - Shortlist
2018 Amgen Young Investigator Award
2018 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
2017 C&E News Talented Twelve
2017 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
2017 ACS Green Chemistry GreenX: Rising Star
2016 NSF Career Award
2016 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship
2015 Thieme Journal Award
2014 William R. Roush Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
2011 ETH Medal
2010–2012 Feodor-Lynen Postdoctoral Fellowship (Humboldt Foundation)
2007–2008 Roche Research Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
2004 Kurt Wamsler Stiftung (Munich, Germany)
2004 Kurt Fordan Verein für herausragende Begabung e.V.
2002–2004 Fritz-ter-Meer-Stiftung (Bayer AG, Germany)