Profile

Professional career

• since 10/2009
  Professor for Organic Chemistry / Chemical Biology, Leipzig University
• 10/2001 - 09/2009
  Junior Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany, Department of Molecular Biology (Director: Prof. Dr. Axel Ullrich).
• 10/1998 - 07/2001
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Peter Vogt at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, USA.
• 02/1997 - 09/1998
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Kim Janda at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, USA.

Education

• 10/2003 - 11/2008
  Habilitation in “Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry”, Technical University of Munich (Prof. Horst Kessler)
• 09/1993 - 10/1996
  Ph.D. studies in the group of Prof. Dr. Dieter Enders, RWTH Aachen, Germany.
• 10/1987 - 03/1993
  Studies of Chemistry at the University of Cologne, Germany. Diploma thesis with Prof. Dr. Emanuel Vogel.