Awards
03/2020 Innovation Award in Medicinal/Pharmaceutical Chemistry
For outstanding scientific achievements of a young researcher
by the subdivision Medicinal Chemistry of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)
and the subdivision Medicinal/ Pharmaceutical Chemistry
of the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG)
Link to GDCh press release
09/2018 SPP Big Data Interdisciplinary Award
L. Humbeck, S. Weigang, T. Schäfer, P. Mutzel, O. Koch
for their outstanding work on "CHIPMUNK: A Virtual Synthesizable Small‐Molecule Library for
Medicinal Chemistry, Exploitable for Protein–Protein Interaction Modulators“.
In the context of the DFG funded priority program “Algorithms for Big Data”
09/2017 Young Researcher Award
For outstanding scientific achievements of a young researcher
by the Horst-Böhme-Foundation of the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG)
Link to DPhG press release
Memberships
12/2023 – present Member of the Center for Nonlinear Science (CENOS)
Universität Münster, Germany
11/2020 – 12/2022 Associated board member - Subdivision Computer-in-Chemistry (CIC)
of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) www.gdch.de/cic
11/2020 – 03/2021 Member of the International Research Alliance
for Antibiotic Discovery and Development
(IRAAD-Network)
10/2019 – present Principal investigator in the Research Training Group
"Chemical Biology of Ion Channels (Chembion)"
https://www.uni-muenster.de/ChemBion/
05/2019 – present Member of the Center for Multiscale Theory and Computation,
Universität Münster www.uni-muenster.de/CMTC
01/2013 – 12/2020 Elected board member - Subdivision Computer-in-Chemistry (CIC)
of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) www.gdch.de/cic
Professional Experience and Scientific Career
10/2023 – present Scientific Advisor, Prosion Therapeutics, Köln
10/2022 – present Senior Advisor Digital Life Sciene, Nuvisan ICB GmbH, Berlin
04/2022 – present Heisenberg-Professor for Computational Drug Design
11/2019 Venia Legendi “Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry”
01/2019 – present Associated Partner - German Center for Infection Research (www.dzif.de)
01/2019 – 03/2022 Independent Group Leader
“Computational Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Design”
10/2012 – 11/2018 Independent Junior Group Leader „In-silico Medicinal Chemistry“
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, TU Dortmund University, Germany
08/2008 – 07/2012 Scientist Computational Sciences / Molecular Discovery Sciences
MSD Animal Health Innovation GmbH, Schwabenheim, Germany
10/2007 – 07/2008 Post-Doctoral Fellowship & Scientific Software Engineer
The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, Cambridge, UK
University Education
04/2003 – 09/2007 Ph.D. student with Prof. Dr. G. Klebe
Institute of pharmaceutical chemistry, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
04/2004 – 09/2007 Postgraduate Studies Computer Science with focus on machine learning,
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
02/2004 Diploma in Pharmacy
Faculty of Pharmacy, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg, Germany.
01/2003 Pharmaceutical examination
with following granted license to practice pharmacy
1997 - 2001 Study of Pharmacy,
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany