About our special guest

Christian F.W. Becker studied chemistry at the University of Dortmund, obtaining Diploma in 1998 and PhD in 2001. He became a postdoctoral fellow with Gryphon Therapeutics until 2003 and then started his independent career as a group leader at the Max-Planck Institute in Dortmund. In 2007, he was appointed as Professor for Protein Chemistry at the TU Munich, and in 2011 he became Professor and Head of the Institute of Biological Chemistry at the University of Vienna, and in 2020 founding head of the Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem). His group develops and uses chemical as well as biochemical means to generate peptides and proteins with otherwise unattainable (posttranslational) modifications to address biomedical and biotechnological challenges.