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) |
10/2000 - 02/2004 | Dr. rer.nat. (equiv. to Ph.D.) in Pharmaceutical Biology at the University of Bonn, Germany, Topic: ´Isolation and structure elucidation of bioactive secondary metabolites from marine invertebrates´, Grade: summa cum laude, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gabriele König |
05/2004 - 04/2006 | 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 |
06/2006 - 04/2012 | Habilitand (equiv. to Assistant Professor) at the Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Bonn, Germany, Mentor: Prof. Dr. Gabriele König |
| 05/2012 | Habilitation (equiv. to D.Sc.) in 2012, Topic: ´Chemical investigation of microbial drugs in their biosynthetic and genomic context´ |
04/2012-today | Full professor (W3) for Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Tuebingen, Germany |
| 10/2019-today | Head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Biology |
Academic Service and Scientific Committees (Selected)
| since 2019 | Responsible organizer of the Certificate Course “Clinical Pharmacy” at the University of Tübingen |
| 2019-2025 | Elected member of the Steering Committee of the Faculty of Science (Fakultätsrat der MNF), Tübingen University |
| 2021-2025 | Member of the Awards and Funds Committee of the American Society of Pharmacognosy, USA |
| 2023-2025 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology (RIBB), Lalitpur, Nepal |
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) |
| 2022 | PHOENIX Pharmaceutical Science Award (category Pharmaceutical Biology) |
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
- Marine Natural Product Chemistry
- Microbial Natural Product Chemistry
- Genome Mining
- Biosynthesis