Michael Reithofer promoted to Associate Professor

01.08.2018

Having returned to Vienna in 2017, Michael Reithofer was promoted to Associate Professor.

Michael Reithofer studied Chemistry at the University of Vienna where he graduated with a PhD from our Department in 2008. Following his graduation, Michael was awarded the prestigious Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund, which enabled him to work together with 2005 Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Richard Schrock at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Subsequently, Michael joined the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, A*STAR, Singapore as a research scientist. In 2014 Michael established his independent academic and research career when he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hull. In 2017, Michael accepted an offer to return to Vienna were he was promoted to Associate Professor in July 2018.