Hannes received his Ph.D. from TU Wien in 2014. Fascinated by the emerging field of bioorthogonal chemistry, he joined the laboratory of Prof. Ralph Weissleder at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School as a postdoctoral fellow, supported by an FWF Schrödinger Fellowship. In 2016, he returned to TU Wien as a postdoctoral investigator, and since 2018, he has led the group ‘Molecular Chemistry & Chemical Biology’ at the Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry. In 2021, he was appointed Assistant Professor (Laufbahnstelle, Tenure Track) and completed his Habilitation (venia docendi) in December 2022. Since October 2023, Hannes is University Professor of Chemical Biology. His team focuses on the development of molecular tools and technologies for bioorthogonal chemistry, chemical biology, and new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.

• Bioorthogonal Chemistry
  Next-level chemical tools and reactions to advance the field of click, bioorthogonal & in vivo chemistry; Enhancing bioorthogonal tools by unraveling the underlying molecular mechanisms
• Bioorthogonal drug targeting strategies
  New paradigms to safely and selectively deliver and/or activate drugs in target tissue/cells by applying new bioorthogonal strategies
• Diagnostic tools - in vitro assays
  Advanced concepts and methods for (bio)molecular sensing, tracking, and detection
• Diagnostic tools - in vivo medical imaging
  Diagnostic imaging strategies based on in vivo click chemistry
• Radiotheranostics
  Combination of diagnostic and therapeutic radionuclides towards bioorthgonal theranostic strategies

• 2023   Elisabeth Lutz Award, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
• 2023   European Young Group Leader Award of the Chemical Biology Division of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ)
• 2022   ERC Starting Grant, ERC-2021-STG, European Research Council (ERC)
• 2021   START Award, Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
• 2020   Science Award (Wissenschaftspreis), Austrian Chemical Society (GÖCH) & Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
• 2019   Dream Chemistry Top 5 Award, IOCB Prague & IChF-PAN
• 2019   ASciNA Young Scientist Award, ASciNA & Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, Austria
• 2015   Karl Schlögl Award, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
• 2015   Postdoctoral Award (Habilitationspreis), Austrian Chemical Society (GÖCH)
• 2014   Schrödinger Fellowship, Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
• 2014   Promotio sub auspiciis Praesidentis rei publicae (PhD with highest distinction)
• 2014   Excellence Scholarship, Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy, Austria
• 2014   PhD Thesis Award (Dissertationspreis), Austrian Chemical Society (GÖCH)
• 2014   Appreciation Award (Würdigungspreis), Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy, Austria
• 2013   T. Kery Award, Kery Foundation, Burgenland, Austria
• 2011   T. Körner Award, Theodor Körner Fund, presented by the Federal President of Austria
• 2008   Diploma Thesis Award of the City of Vienna, Austria

• ORCID (0000-0002-9218-9722)
• Google Scholar
• ResearcherID (T-1497-2018)

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