| Department of Chemistry Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry Free University of Berlin Takustrasse 3 14195 Berlin Germany Tel. +49-30-838-52451 |
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Since 05/2011
Professor (Bioorganic Chemistry) at Free University Berlin (FU Berlin)
Since 08/2005
Independent leader of a research group, Free University Berlin (FU Berlin)
08/2004 – 09/2004
Postdoctoral research internship with Prof. Sheena E. Radford University
of Leeds, UK
06/2003 – 07/2005
Postdoctoral research with Prof. Barbara Imperiali, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA
04/2000 – 05/2003
Ph.D. research with Prof. Carsten Bolm, RWTH Aachen
10/1999 – 03/2000
Graduate studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
08/1998 – 09/1999
Graduate studies and M.Sc. research with Prof. Samuel H. Gellman, University
of Wisconsin/Madison, USA
10/1996 – 07/1998
Undergraduate studies and prediploma (Vordiplom), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Freiburg
08/1995– 09/1996
Civil service at the Karl-Luhmann-Heim for deaf-mute children in Osnabrück
08/1982 – 06/1995
Elementary school and Gymnasium Damme
11/2001 – 12/2001
German Science Television Department, (WDR Television, Cologne)
German Chemical Society (GDCh)
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Bioorganic chemistry, methodology development, semi-synthesis, structural and functional consequences of protein modifications
| 2011 | Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Award of the DFG |
| 2011 | ADUC-Price of the GDCh for junior investigators |
| 2011 | Karl-Winnacker-Scholarship of the "Fonds der chemischen Industrie" (FCI) |
| 2010 | Recognition in the competition "Junior investigator of the year 2010" |
| 2010 | "Plus 3"-Award of the Böhringer-Ingelheim Foundation |
| 2009 | Price of the GDCh section "Macromolecular Chemistry" (Fachgruppe Makromolekulare Chemie) |
| 2008 | Price of the Otto-Röhm Memorial Foundation |
| 2006 | Thieme Journal Award |
| 2006 | Emmy-Noether Research Fellowship |
| 2005 | Liebig-Stipendium of the "Fonds der chemischen Industrie" |
| 2005 | DFG-Forschungsstipendium |
| 2004 | Borchers-Medal of the RWTH Aachen |
| 2003 – 2004 | Post-Doctoral Scholarship of the DAAD |
| 2003 | Friedrich-Wilhelm Price of the RWTH Aachen |
| 2001 | Scholarship for scientific journalism of the "Fonds der chemischen Industrie" |
| 2001 – 2003 | Ph.D.-Scholarship of the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" |
| 2000 – 2002 | "Kekulé"- Ph.D. Scholarship of the "Fonds der chemischen Industrie" |
| 2000 | First prize at a lecture contest at the JCF-Symposium (youth organization of the German Chemical Society GDCh) in Hamburg |
| 1998 | USA-Scholarship of the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes" |
| 1998 | Scholarship of the University Freiburg within the Baden-Württemberg "Academic-Year-Program" |
| 1997 – 2000 | Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes |
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