Stefan Brase
Professor of Chemistry
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Germany
Biography
Stefan Brase studied in Gottingen, Bangor (UK) and Marseille and received his Ph.D. in 1995, after working with Armin de Meijere in Gottingen. After post-doctoral appointments at Uppsala University (Jan E. Backvall) and The Scripps Research Institute (K. C. Nicolaou), he began his independent research career at the RWTH Aachen in 1997 (associated to Dieter Enders). In 2001, he finished his Habilitation and moved to the University of Bonn as professor for organic chemistry. Since 2003, he is full professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - in Germany.
Research Interest
His research interests include methods in drug-discovery (including drug-delivery), combinatorial chemistry towards the synthesis of biologically active compounds, total synthesis of natural products and nanotechnology.