N° 36
Date finished: Dec. 2013
Batch: WS08
Country of origin: Germany
Supervisor(s): Prof. Dr. B. Friedrich (HUB - retired), Dr. O. Lenz (TUB), Prof. Dr. P. Hildebrandt (TUB - retired)
Area PhD: The oxygen tolerance mechanism of theNAD+-reducing [NiFe]-hydrogenase from Ralstonia eutropha H16 and its application for cofactor regeneration
Present occupation:
09/2021 - present: Full Professor for Synthetic Biology at RWTH Aachen University
Current research field: Bioelectrocatalysis in industrial biotechnology: Towards CO2-negative production of chemicals
Past occupations:
10/2018 - 01/2022: Team leader (research group Dr. Oliver Lenz) Institute of Chemistry, Technische Universität Berlin
2015 - 2017: Guest Scientist RIKEN, SPring-8, Japan
08/2014 - 02/2015: University of California, Davis, U.S.A. (Stephen Cramer) Postdoctoral research scientist
12/2013 - 01/2019: Technische Universität Berlin, Germany (Oliver Lenz) Postdoctoral research scientist; funded by UniCat
08/2013 - 11/2013: University of California, Davis, U.S.A. (Stephen Cramer) Research scientist founded by EMBO
01/2012 - 12/2012: University of Oxford U.K./ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Kylie Vincent) Research scientist founded by the European Research Council