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Congratulations to Nuno Maulide, Professor for Organic Synthesis at the University of Vienna, Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and CeMM Adjunct Principal Investigator, for receiving the Ignaz L. Lieben Award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences! As a scientist with a broadly documented expertise in state-of-the-art innovations in organic synthesis, and a great talent and dedication for science communication and teaching, Nuno Maulide highly deserves this prestigious award and recognition.

Nuno Maulide’s research mostly focused on unusual or "unconventional" reactivity profiles of organic compounds with a particular interest in high-energy reactive intermediates that can be generated under mild conditions and subsequently lead to rearrangements, domino reaction sequences or catalytic asymmetric transformations. One of his research goals at CeMM is translating the “precision design” that is enabled by synthesis, whereby modification and tailoring of organic molecules can be done with atomic precision, to the realm of biomedical research with an impact on medical practice.

Nuno Maulide is a trained chemist. He underwent doctoral studies in the Université catholique de Louvain and, in 2007, obtained his PhD working on the application of functionalized orthoesters in organic synthesis. He then moved to Stanford University for a post-doctoral stay. Nuno started his independent career in 2009, when he was appointed group leader at the Max-Plank-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr. In 2013 he moved to the University of Vienna, taking up his current position as Full Professor of Organic Synthesis. Nuno is a holder of several ERC Grants, leads a Christian Doppler Laboratory and joined CeMM as Adjunct PI in November 2018. At the beginning of 2019 Nuno Maulide was elected Scientist of the Year by the Austrian Club of Education and Science Journalists.

The Ignaz L. Lieben Award founded in 1863 and named after the banking house Lieben is given to scientists for outstanding achievements in the fields of molecular biology, chemistry or physics. Since 2004 Isabel and Alfred Bader are generously sponsoring the prize. Renowned researchers such as the physicist Lise Meitner or the two Nobel Prize laureates Viktor Hess and Ott Loewi were awarded the Ignaz L. Lieben Prize in the past. In 2010, CeMM Principal Investigator Robert Kralovics received the prize for achievements in uncovering the genetic basis of myeloproliferative disorders.