C M.Niemeyer Named Max Planck Fellow

摘要

The Max Planck Society has named ChristofM.Niemeyer(TU Dortmund)as a Max Planck Fellow.Niemeyer studied chemistry in Marburg and completed his doctorate at the MPI fur Kohlenfor-schung under M.T.Reetz(Mulheim/Ruhr).He then took up a postdoctoral position at the Center for Advanced Biotechnology in Boston with C.R.Cantor.He completed his habilitation at the University of Bremen in 2000,and since 2002 he has been professor for biological and chemical microstructure technology at the TU Dortmund,where he studies the chemistry of bioconjugates and their applications in biosensors,catalysis,and molecular nanotechnology.He also founded the company Chimera Biotec,which develops diagnostic applications of DNA-protein conjugates.