Prof. Dr. Anna McConnell

04/2023 – present       Junior Professor (W1 with Tenure Track)
                                        Organic Chemistry I, University of Siegen

11/2016 – 04/2023      Junior Professor (W1)
                                        Otto Diels Institute of Organic Chemistry, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

07/2013 – 10/2016      Postdoctoral Research Associate
                                         University of Cambridge, UK
                                         Supervisor: Professor Jonathan Nitschke

10/2010 – 06/2013      Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemistry 
                                         California Institute of Technology, USA
                                         Supervisor: Professor Jacqueline Barton

09/2006 – 08/2010      DPhil in Inorganic Chemistry
                                         University of Oxford, UK
                                         Heteroditopic Calix[4]arene Based Receptors for Ion-Pair Recognition and Mechanical Bond Assembly
                                         Supervisor: Professor Paul Beer

2003 – 2005                  B.Sc. with 1st Class Honours in Chemistry
                                        University of Canterbury, NZ

Awards and Fellowships (Selected)
2020                               Kiel Nano, Surface and Interface Science (KiNSIS) Early Career Award
2018                               Münster Symposium on Cooperative Effects in Chemistry (MSCEC) Young Researcher Award from SFB 858: Synergistic Effects in Chemistry
2010 – 2011                  Lindemann Trust Fellowship
2006 – 2010                  Woolf Fisher Scholarship

Professional Responsibilities (Selected)
01/2026 – present        Member of International Advisory Board of Chemistry – A European Journal
2026 – present              Board member of AG Supramolekulare Chemie of the GDCh (and member of Founding Team)
01/2021 – present        Member of International Advisory Board of ChemPlusChem
05/2019 – present        Women and Inclusion in Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) Network
                                         Co-founder
                                         Board Member (Chair: 01/2023 – 12/2025, Vice-Chair (Organisation): 2019 – 2022)
                                         Advisory Board Member (2026 – present)