Education and Professional Career |
| since 04/2017 | Professor at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany - current focus: chemical and biological screening of actinomycete and cyanobacteria strains, fermentation of strains, isolation and structure elucidation of bioactive (esp. antiinfective and cytotoxic) natural products
- further projects: chemical interactions of (micro-)organisms; development of software tools to support structure elucidation of natural products; uptake and transport of natural products in the human body
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| 11/2013 - 3/2017 | Assistant Professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany, as part of the German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF) |
| 9/2008 - 11/2013 | Head of Natural Product R&D at Cyano Biotech GmbH, Berlin, Germany - responsible for the complete natural product hit identification process: analytical screening of cyanobacterial strains, selection of strains for upscaling, extraction of biomass, fractionation and isolation of compounds, library management, structure elucidation
- responsible for international customer relationships, research collaborations and company representation at scientific conferences and trade fairs
- one substance advanced into early preclinical studies; successfully coordinated the work of up to 9 FTE in an international team as project leader of a three-year project
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| 12/2004 - 8/2008 | Research fellow at Riemser Arzneimittel AG, Greifswald, Germany - responsible for the quality documentation of several drug products and respective CMO audits and CMO/CRO relationships; team leader of various national and international drug development projects
- analytical method development and validation; preparation of SOPs; definition of product specifications; work in GLP laboratory
- established quality documentation and coordinated establishing a novel contract manufacturer for a product that is now registered at the EMA
- 9/2005 - 10/2007 extra-occupational postgraduate course "Chemical Analysis and Spectroscopy" at the University Leipzig, Germany
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| 6/2002 - 11/2004 | Practical work for the doctoral thesis at the School of Pharmacy (Pharmacognosy) of the EMA-University Greifswald; PhD awarded 4/2006 - isolation and characterization of fungal natural products including all preparative and structure elucidation work
- chemical syntheses using enzymes as catalysts
- eight original publications resulting from 2.5 years in the laboratory
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| 5/2001 - 5/2002 | Practical training for pharmacists according to German law (AAppO) in two pharmacological groups at the Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff, UK, and in a local pharmacy (Prenz'l-Apotheke), Berlin, Germany; Licensure as Pharmacist |
| 10/1996 - 4/2001 | Studies in Pharmacy at the Free University, Berlin, Germany |
Memberships |
| since 2000 | Member of the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG) |
| since 2002 | Member of the Institute for Marine Biotechnology e.V. (IMaB) |
| since 2005 | Member of the TEX usergroup DANTE e.V. |
| since 2006 | Member of the Society of Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA) |
| since 2014 | Member of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM) |
| since 2014 | Member of the DECHEMA |
Scientific Awards |
| 2007 | Carl-Wilhelm-Scheele-Preis
(Prize for the best pharmaceutical PhD thesis, awarded by the DPhG) |
Scientific Publications |
| the publication list can be found here |
Commissions of Trust |
| since 2013 | Scientific Advisory Board, Cyano Biotech GmbH, Berlin, Germany |
| since 2013 | Editorial Board, Natural Products and Bioprospecting (Springer) |
