Awards and Honors

Visiting Professorships/Distinguished Lectureships

• University Lectures in Chemistry, Boston College, Waltham, MA, November 6-8, 2023
• Reilly Lectureship, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN; March 6-7, 2024
• Swiss Chemical Society Paracelsus Prize Lecture Tour, 18-21 September 2023
• Arthur C. Cope Award Symposium, ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA August 15, 2023
• Bohlmann Lectureship, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, November 18, 2022
• Distinguished Organic Lecture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA, September 5, 2022
• Justus Liebig College Visiting Professor, Giessen, Germany, 2022
• E-EROS Lectureship, Columbia University, NY, October 13, 2020
• Swiss Chemical Society, Paracelsus Lectureship, August 25, 2020
• J. Org. Chem. Outstanding Paper of the Year Award Lectureship 2019, ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, August 25, 2019
• Eisch Lectureship in Organic Chemistry, SUNY-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, October 12, 2018
• Sandin Lectureship, Univeristy of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, May 22-24, 2018
• Pfizer Lecturer, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 3, 2018
• Heathcock Lecturer, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, April 24, 2018
• Eschenmoser Lecturer, ETH-Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, March 19, 2018
• Stauffer Lectureship, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, February 13-15, 2018
• Vertex-UCI Lectureship, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA, February 9, 2017
• Zen-ichi Yoshida Lectureship, University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, May 20-21, 2016
• Richard F. Heck Lectureship, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, April 20, 2016
• Organic Syntheses Lectureship, Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC, April 2, 2015
• Pfizer Lectureship, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, February 9, 2015
• 7th European Silicon Days, Berlin, Germany, August 3-8, 2014
• Connecticut Organic Chemistry Symposium, New Haven, CT, March 21, 2014
• Richard T. Arnold Lectureship, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, October 11, 2013
• Oxford Synthesis Symposium, Oxford, UK, July 22-25, 2013
• Givaudan-Karrer Lectureship, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, May 6-17, 2013
• 16th Reed Lecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, September 25, 2012
• Debye Lectures, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 31-November 1, 2011
• Novartis Lectureship in Organic Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, November 17, 2011
• Syngenta-Ecole Polytechnique Lectureship, Palisseau, France, October 17, 2011
• Backer Lecture in Organic Chemistry, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, September 12, 2011
• McRae Lectureship in Organic Chemistry, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, April 1, 2011
• Murtiashaw Lecturer, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, March 21, 2011
• Karl Ziegler Lectureship, Max Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim, Germany, May 2010
• Novartis Lecturer, Boston College, Waltham, MA, September 16, 2009
• Lemieux Lectureship, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, April 29, 2009
• BMS Lectureship, Scripps Research Institute, February 13, 2009
• Abbott Lecturer in Organic Synthesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, May 2008
• Pfizer Lectureship, York University, York, Canada, May 2008
• Wyeth Research Lectureship, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, December 2007
• Dauben Lectureship, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, May 2007
• Ingersoll Lectureship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, April 2007
• Eli Lilly Lectureship, Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 4, 2007
• Felix Serratosa Lectureship, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, January 2007
• Frontiers in Chemical Research Lectureship, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, November 2006
• Merck Lectureship, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, October 2006
• Pfizer Synthetic Organic Lecturer, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, May 2006
• Distinguished Lecturer, Eli Lilly Grantee Symposium, Indianapolis, IN, March 2006
• Astra Zeneca Excellence in Chemistry Distinguished Lecturer, Wilmington, DE, October 2005
• Abbott Lecturer in Organic Synthesis, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, May 2005
• Opplozer Lecturer, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, October 18, 2004
• 3me Cycle in Organic Chemistry, Fribourg, Switzerland, October 2004
• Ireland Lectureship, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, April 2004
• Dains Lectureship, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, March 2004
• Gassman Lectures, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, November 2003
• Merck-Frosst Lecturer, Montreal, Canada, September 2003
• Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecturer in Organic Synthesis, Harvard, MA, March 2003
• Pedler Lectures, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2002-2003
• Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecturer in Organic Synthesis, Columbia, NY, May 2001
• Merck-Frosst Lecturer, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, April 2001
• Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecturer in Organic Synthesis, Princeton, NJ, April 2000
• SFC/Rhone-Poulenc Lecturer, Paris, France, December 1998
• Novartis Lecturer, Novartis Corp., Basel, Switzerland, May 1998
• Merck-Frosst Lecturer, Ottawa, Canada, November 1995
• UCI/Allergan Visiting Professor University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, March 1995
• Organic Syntheses Lecturer, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, March 1995
• Chambers Lecturer, Rochester University, Rochester, NY, December 1994
• Visiting Professor Université Paris-Sud, Paris-Orsay, France, May/June 1994
• Visiting Professor Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, November 1992
• 3me Cycle in Organic Chemistry, Geneva, Switzerland, May 1987