Curriculum Vitae
2010 | Professor for Chemical Biology |
2006 - 2010 | Independent junior Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Chemical Genomics Centre of the Max Planck Society, Dortmund, Germany. |
2004 - 2006 | Post Doctoral Fellow with Prof. Kevan Shokat at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco, USA Area of interest: Chemical biology and chemical genetics of kinases and reductases |
2003 - 2004 | Post Doctoral Fellow with Prof. Milton Stubbs at the Institute of Biotechnology, Department of Physical Biotechnology, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Area of interest: Structural biology |
2002 | Research fellow at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF), San Diego, USA Area of interest: Profiling of protease substrate specificties |
2000 - 2002 | Phillips-Universität Marburg, Germany PhD degree in pharmaceutical chemistry (summa cum laude) at the Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the group of Prof. Gerhard Klebe Thesis area: Structure-based drug design and protein X-ray crystallography. |
1998 - 1999 (6 months) | Diploma thesis at the Institute for Medicinal Chemistry, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität, Greifswald, Germany |
1994 - 1998 | Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, Germany State Examination in Pharmacy |
Prizes and Awards
2015 | Prize of the Berlin-Bradenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften gestiftet von der Monika Kutzner Stiftung zur Förderung der Krebsforschung |
2013 | Novartis Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry |
2010 | Innovation-Prize for Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry of the German Chemical Society (Innovationspreis in Medizinisch und Pharmazeutischer Chemie der GDCh) |
Activities
since 01/2017 | Coordinator of the “Drug Discovery Hub Dortmund at the ZIW” (DDHD) |
since 12/2015 | Chairman of the selection committee of the Klaus-Grohe Prize of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) |
May 2014 | Co-founder, Integrated Research Center for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients / Zentrum für integrierte Wirkstoffforschung (ZIW) an der TU Dortmund |
since 08/2012 | Associate Editor for ACS Chemical Biology |