Dr. Jan Riebe

University of Duisburg-Essen

Faculty of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry

Universitätsstraße 7

45117 Essen

Room: S07 S04 C17

Phone: +49 201 183 6216

Email: jan.riebe@uni-due.de

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Career

• since 04/2025        Senior Scientist (Akademischer Rat) / University of Duisburg-Essen / Group of Prof. Jochen Niemeyer
• 07/2024 - 03/2025 Staff Scientist / University of Duisburg-Essen / Group of Prof. Jochen Niemeyer
  • Organisational management of the basic practical courses for organic chemistry
  • Teaching organic chemistry for the chemical laboratory technician training programme

Education

• 01/2021 - 03/2024   Doctoral studies (Dr. rer. nat) / University of Duisburg-Essen / Group of Prof. Jochen Niemeyer
  • „Applications of mechanically interlocked molecules: Switchable [2]rotaxanes for singlet oxygen production -and- First steps towards mechanically chiral organocatalysts“ (grade: summa cum laude)
    • Evonik Faculty Award for the best dissertation 2024
• 04/2020 - 09/2020   Master of Science in Chemistry / University of Duisburg-Essen / Group of Prof. Jochen Niemeyer
  • Evonik Faculty Award for excellent Master's theses
    • Graduation with distinction (top 10% of the class) - grade: excellent 
• 07/2018 - 10/2018   Research stay / University of Glasgow (UK) / Dr. Alistair Boyer
  • „ Novel Norbornene Shuttles for Selective C-H Functionalisation”
    • DAAD RISE-Scholarship
• 10/2015 - 09/2020   Studies in chemistry / University of Duisburg-Essen

Industrial internships

•  Evonik (Process Development, Hanau), BYK-Chemie (Surface technology, Wesel), Lanxess (Specialty Addititves, Leverkusen; Rubber Chemicals, Dormagen)

Education

• 08/2012 – 06/2015  Training as a chemical laboratory technician / Lanxess Deutschland GmbH / Dormagen
  • Early final examination with top marks (overall grade: excellent)
  • Honoured by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce "Mittlerer Niederrhein"

Fellowships and Awards

• 2025                In the top 15 in the 6th Merck Compound Challenge (team captain)
• 2024                Evonik Faculty Award for the best dissertation 2024
• 2023                In the top 51 - 75 in the 5th Merck Compound Challenge (team captain)
• 2022                In the top 4 in the 4th Merck Compound Challenge (team captain)
• 2020                Evonik Faculty Award for excellent Master theses 
• 2018                DAAD RISE scholarship for an internship / University of Glasgow / UK
• 2017 - 2020    "Deutschlandstipendium" sponsored by the Evonik Foundation

Publications

• S. Kheirjou, J. Riebe, M. Thiele, C. Wölper, J. Niemeyer, Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 1719.
• S. Kundu, S- Mallick, J. Riebe, J. Niemeyer, Chem. Eur. J. 2025, 31, e202501106.
• J. Riebe, B. Bädorf, S. Löffelsender, M. E. Gutierrez Suburu, M. B. Rivas Aiello, C. A. Strassert, R. Grimme, J. Niemeyer, Commun. Chem. 2024, 7, 171.
• Y. Kong, J. Riebe, M. Feßner, T. Schaller, C. Wölper, F. Stappert, S. Meckelmann, M. Krajnc, P. Weyrauch, O. Schmitz, C. Merten, J. Niemeyer, X. Hu, R. Meckenstock, Environ. Microbiol. 2024, 26, e70013.
• D. Kauerhof, J. Riebe, C. J. Vonnemann, M. Thiele, D. Jansen, J. Niemeyer, Chem. Commun. 2024, 60, 2393 – 2396.
• J. Riebe, J. Niemeyer, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2021, 5106-5116.