Frank Schulz
Professor
Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
Germany
Biography
Frank Schulz has completed his PhD in 2007 with a thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute of Coal Research under supervision of Manfred T. Reetz and pursued postdoctoral studies at Cambridge University in the laboratory of Peter F. Leadlay. From 2009 on he was Beilstein Professor of Organic Chemistry at the TU Dortmund. Since 2013, he is professor of organic chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum, synthesizing natural product derivatives using a variety of techniques from organic synthesis and biochemistry.
Research Interest
His research interest are Natural product chemistry, chemoenzymatic synthesis of bioactive molecules: Investigation of new strategies and methods to manipulate microbial biosynthetic pathways, selective chemical derivatisation of polyketides, microbial and chemoenzymatic synthesis of terpenoids, enzyme engineering.