Thisbe Lindhorst

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Thisbe Kerstin Lindhorst (born November 19, 1962 in Munich ) is a German chemist and biochemist and professor of organic and biological chemistry at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel at the Otto Diels Institute for Organic Chemistry.

Life

Thisbe Lindhorst (left), as President of the GDCh, awards the Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize to Felix Raoul Fischer (right)

Lindhorst studied chemistry from 1981 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster (with an additional major in biochemistry), where she received her diploma from Joachim Thiem in 1988 . She followed Thiem to Hamburg in 1988 and received her doctorate with him in 1991 (“The synthesis of L - fucose derivatives as potential inhibitors and modulators of the GDP-β- L- fucose metabolism”). As a post-doctoral student at the University of British Columbia with Stephen G. Withers , she did research on enzymes. From 1993 she returned to the University of Hamburg and completed her habilitation in organic chemistry on carbohydrates and dendrimers in 1998 with a DFG scholarship. In 2000 she became a professor in Kiel.

She dealt with the synthesis of carbohydrate dendrimers, glycoproteins ( glycoconjugates ) and their biological functions and the glycocalyx .

In 1998 she received the Chemistry Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and the advancement award of the Karl Ziegler Foundation and in 2000 the Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize . She was on research stays at the universities in Ottawa and Orléans. From 2008 to 2011 she was deputy chairwoman of the Liebig Association for Organic Chemistry. She has been a member of the University Council of Bielefeld University since 2013 and is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry in Halle, on the Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces and on the Board of Trustees of the Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation . She is on the board of trustees of the journal Nachrichten aus der Chemie .

From 2015 she was deputy president of the Society of German Chemists and was its president for 2016/17. In December 2017, Lindhorst was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the British Royal Society of Chemistry for her services .

She has two children.

Fonts

  • Structure and function of carbohydrates. In: Chemistry in Our Time. Volume 34, 2000, No. 1, pp. 38-52.
  • Essentials of carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry , 2nd edition, Wiley-VCH 2003 (1st edition 2000)
  • Edited with Ulf Diederichsen: Bioorganic Chemistry: highlights and new aspects , Wiley-VCH 1999
  • Ed .: Glycoscience and microbial adhesion, Topics in Current Chemistry , Springer 2009

She is co-editor of several volumes of Carbohydrate Chemistry: Chemical and Biological Approaches of the Royal Society of Chemistry and co-editor of Carbohydrate Research and the International Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Communication from Kiel University, 2015
  2. ^ Thisbe K. Lindhorst becomes the new GDCh President. Retrieved May 3, 2018 .
  3. ^ Royal Society of Chemistry: Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry. June 8, 2016, accessed July 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lindhorst, Thisbe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lindhorst, Thisbe Kerstin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich