経歴

1998 PhD in Chemistry at the University of Bonn, Germany

1998-1999 Postdoctoral research at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA

1999-2004 Research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

2004  Habilitation at the University of Jena

2004- Professor for Biological and Organic Chemistry, University of Bonn

受賞歴

1998-1999 Feodor Lynen Scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt Society,

2002 JSPS Visiting Scientist at the University of Tokyo,

2004 Young Scientist Award for Natural Products Research of the DECHEMA,

2004 Matt Suffness Award of the American Society of Pharmacognosy,

2004 Thuringian Research Award,

研究

共生微生物の生合成について研究している。

2012年には、ポリセオナミドの生合成を明らかにした。