Norbert Krause, born in 1959, obtained his PhD in chemistry in 1986 under H. Hopf at the Technical University of Braunschweig. After postdoctoral appointments with D. Seebach (ETH Zurich) and M. Saunders (Yale University), he obtained his qualification in the group led by K. Hafner at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1993. He was appointed to the University of Bonn in 1994 and subsequently moved to become Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Dortmund in 1998. He has received several awards, including the ADUC annual award for lecturers (1993), a Heisenberg scholarship (1...