Professor David Tanner
Organic Chemistry
1973-1977 B.Sc. (summa cum laude) in chemistry, Edinburgh University, Scotland
1977-1981 Ph.D. University of Göteborg, Sweden (Prof. O. Wennerström)
1982-1983 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, USA (Prof. K. C. Nicolaou)
1983–1988 Assistant Professor, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg
1988–1995 Associate Professor, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
1991-1995 Personal senior research position funded by the Swedish NFR (U. Uppsala)
1995 - Professor of Organic Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark
Other experience
Departmental chairman (Department of Organic Chemistry, DTU) 1998 - 2001.
Chairman, committee for research (Department of Chemistry, DTU) 2001 - 2004.
Member of departmental steering group, 2009 - 2010.
Head of section, Organic Chemistry (Department of Chemistry, DTU) 2012 - 2015.
Chairman, Organic Division, Danish Chemical Society, 2003 - 2007.
Foreign member, Swedish Natural Science Research Council 1998 - 2001.
External adviser, Danish Technical Science Research Council 2002 – 2004.
Representative for Denmark, EuCheMS Division of Organic Chemistry, 2009 – 2017.
Visiting Professor, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, summer 1992.
Visiting Professor (JSPS Fellowship), Kyoto, Japan, July – August 2007.
Visiting Professor, Stockholm University, fall semester 2015.
Chairman, organizing committee, Torkil Holm Symposium 2012 –
Member, Danish Natural Sciences Research Council, 2017 –
Member, Executive Committee, Danish Natural Sciences Research Council, 2019 -
Member, Academic Council, DTU 2017 -
Foreign Member, Royal Physiographic Society (Lund, Sweden) 2018 –