Habilitation and venia legendi in Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry.
Thesis, “Structure and reaction mechanism of urease from St. xylosus”, Promotion to a Dr. rer. nat.
Diploma in Biology (main subjects: microbiology, genetics, biochemistry) at the University of Saarbrücken and research assistant in the Department of Microbiology.
Positions
Full Professor (W3) and Chair for Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry at Westfälische Wilhelms-University, Münster
Head of the Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf
Associate Professor (C3) in Bioanalytics at the Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf
Co-founder of the Start-up Company Autodisplay Biotech GmbH, for biocatalytic synthesis and evolutive drug design. http://www.autodisplay-biotech.com
Assistant Professor (C1) at Saarland University, Saarbrücken
Co-founder of the Start-up company Pharmacelcus GmbH, CRO Drug Absorption Screening. http://www.pharmacelsus.com
Founding member of the center for Bioinformatics (ZBI), member of the ZBI council (2000–2005). http://www.zbi.uni-saarland.de/
Senior Researcher in the group of Prof. Rolf W. Hartmann in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Saarland University, Saarbrücken
Post-Doc in the group of Prof. Thomas F. Meyer at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Department of Infection Biology, and at the MPI for Infection Biology, Berlin, Department Molecular Genetics.
Honors
Best presentation award – 1st International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry
Best Flash Presentation Prize of TTMC 2015 – 1st European Conference on Therapeutic Targets and Medicinal Chemistry (TTMC) 2015
Poster prize – Forschung der Chemischen Industrie (Symposium)
Poster prize – European Congress of Biotechnology
Medaille der Fakultät für Biologie und Pharmazie der Universität Claude Bernard, Lyon – Universität Claude Bernard, Lyon
Korrespondierendes Mitglied der French National Academy of Pharmacy – French National Academy of Pharmacy
1st prize of the DPhG Doktorandentagung – DPhG Doktorandentagung
Wissenschaftspreis der SaarLB 2004 – SaarLB & Ministerium für Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft des Saarlandes
Posterpreis – GDCh Fachgruppe Medizinische Chemie
Poster prize – DPhG Jahrestagung
Innovationspreis 1998 – Fachgruppe Medizinische Chemie der GdCH und Fachgruppe Pharmazeutische Chemie der DPhG
External Function
Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie (GBM, previously GBCH)
Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie (VAAM)
Deutsche Pharmazeutische Gesellschaft (DPhG)
Gesellschaft für Chemische Technik und Biotechnologie (DECHEMA)
American Society for Microbiology (ASM)