Curriculum Vitae
1995 - 1999 | Study of pharmaceutical sciences, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
1999 - 2000 | Compulsory practical year for pharmacists (public pharmacy / research) |
2001 | Licensed pharmacist (Approbation) |
2000 - 2004 | Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Bonn, Germany ´Isolation and structure elucidation of bioactive secondary metabolites from marine invertebrates´ |
2004 - 2006 | Postdoctoral Research Associate with Prof. W. Gerwick College of Pharmacy, Oregon-State-University, OR, USA Scripps Institution of Oceanography / CMBB, UC San Diego, CA, USA |
2006 - 2012 | Habilitation, Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Bonn, Germany ´Chemical investigation of microbial drugs in their biosynthetic and genomic context´ |
Since 2012 | Full professor for Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Tuebingen, Germany |
| Since 2019 | Head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Biology |
Honors and Awards
| 2002 | Travel award of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA) |
| 2003 | ‘Lynn Brady Travel Award’ of the American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) |
| 2004 | Postdoctoral Fellowship granted by the DFG (German Research Council) |
| 2016 | ´Matt Suffness Young Investigators Award´of the American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) |
Membership in Professional Associations
- ASP (American Society of Pharmacognosy)
- ASM (American Society for Microbiology)
- GA (Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research)
- DPhG (German Pharmaceutical Society)
- DECHEMA (Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology)
- VAAM (Association for General and Applied Microbiology)
Area of Research
- Microbial Natural Product Chemistry
- Genome Mining
- Biosynthesis