Department of Chemistry
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada
Office: LSB 431B
e-mail: tbaumgar@yorku.ca
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Current Position
Full Professor & Canada Research Chair, Department of Chemistry
Education
Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), 02/1996 - 11/1998, with Edgar Niecke, University of Bonn
Thesis Title: “C-functionalized bis(methylene)phosphoranes: Interesting building blocks for the stabilization of reactive intermediates”
Dipl. Chem. (MSc), 10/1990 - 01/1996, with Edgar Niecke, University of Bonn
Thesis Title: “Studies on the reactivity of a (methylene)phosphoranylidene carbenoid”
Professional Experience
07/2017 - Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry, York University
03/2023 - 05/2023 AvH Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Regensburg,
Germany
10/2022 - 11/2022 RCMS Visiting Professor, Nagoya University, Japan
07/2017 - 06/2020 Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary
07/2013 - 06/2017 Associate Head (Research), Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary
05/2013 - 06/2017 Acting Director, Centre for Advanced Solar Materials, University of Calgary
04/2013 - 06/2017 Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary
2013, 2014, 2015 AvH Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry and Graduate School
Molecular Science, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
04/2009 - 03/2013 Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary
07/2006 - 03/2009 Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary
05/2003 - 05/2006 Habilitand, RWTH Aachen University; Mentor: Jun Okuda
04/2002 - 04/2003 Habilitand, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz; Mentor: Jun Okuda
09/1999 - 02/2002 Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, with Ian Manners
12/1998 - 08/1999 Research Associate at the University of Bonn
Fellowships, Awards, Distinctions
2023 Re-Invitation Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2022 IOCF Lectureship Award, International Organic Chemistry Foundation, Japan
2022 Visiting Professorship, Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University
2020 Established Research Award (Faculty of Science, York)
2018 Liebig-Lecturer, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
2017 Canada Research Chair (Tier-1) in Sustainable Organomain Group Materials
2013 Faculty of Science Award of Excellence in Research (Calgary)
2013 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2011 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship
2007 Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award
2002 Liebig-Fellow of the 'Fonds der Chemischen Industrie' (German Chemical Industry Association)
1999 DFG-Postdoctoral Research Fellowship