Wirth, Thomas

Thomas Wirth is Professor of Organic Chemistry at Cardiff University (Wales, UK). After a postdoctoral stay with Kaoru Fuji at Kyoto University as a JSPS fellow, he started his independent research in the group of Bernd Giese (Basel). He was invited as a visiting professor to various places: 1999: University of Toronto (Canada), 2000: Chuo University in Tokyo (Japan), 2004: Osaka University (Japan). He was awarded the Werner-Prize from the New Swiss Chemical Society in 2000. He is the author of ~80 publications and has written/edited 4 books.