Prof. Dr. Claudia Höbartner
Prof. Dr. Claudia Höbartner
Lehrstuhl für Organische Chemie
University of Würzburg
Job History
| since 07/2017 | Professor of Organic Chemistry (W3), Institut für Organische Chemie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU), Germany |
| 10/2014 – 06/2017 | Professor of Biomolecular Label Chemistry (W2), Institut für Organische und Biomolekulare Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (GAU), Germany |
| 03/2008 – 07/2015 | Research group leader, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany |
| 07/2007 – 02/2008 | Hertha-Firnberg Postdoctoral Fellow (FWF), Institut für Organische Chemie, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria |
| 01/2005 – 06/2007 | Erwin-Schrödinger Postdoctoral Fellow (FWF), Department of Chemistry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA |
Education
| 2001 – 2004 | Dr. rer. nat. in Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, Austria, Mentor: Prof. Dr. Ronald Micura |
| 1995 – 2001 | Studies in Technical Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; in 2000: Diploma Thesis at ETH Zürich; Mentor: Dr. S. Pitsch |
Awards and other responsibilities
| Since 2020 | Associate Editor RSC Chemical Biology |
| Since 2019 | Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Division of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences: Corresponding member abroad |
| 2019 / 2020 | Visiting Professor Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) |
| 2016 | ERC Consolidator Grant |
| 2013 | Hellmut-Bredereck-Foundation award (GDCh) |
| 2011 | Research Award of the Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Foundation |
| 2010 | European Young chemist Award (EuCheMS, Silver Medal) |
| 2005 – 2008 | Postdoctoral Fellowships (Erwin Schrödinger fellowship & Hertha Firnberg fellowship) by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) |
| 2005 | Georg and Christine Sosnovsky Award (Thesis Award, University of Innsbruck) |
| 2004 | Roche Symposium Award (Leading Chemists of the next decade) |
| 1999 | ERASMUS Scholarship, Zürich/Wien |
Lehrstuhl für Organische Chemie
University of Würzburg
Research focus
organic and biomolecular chemistry of nucleotides and nucleic acids, native RNA modifications and synthetic functional nucleic acids, including fluorogenic RNA aptamers, catalytic DNA (deoxyribozymes) and RNA (ribozymes); synthesis of modified RNA, RNA labeling, in vitro evolution of ribozymes, structural and mechanistic chemical biology of nucleic acid catalysis.
Lehrstuhl für Organische Chemie
University of Würzburg
Prof. Dr. Claudia Höbartner
University of Würzburg
Universität Würzburg
Institut für Organische Chemie and Center for Nanosystems Chemistry
Am Hubland,
97074 Würzburg
Telefon: +49 (0)931 / 31 89693
E-Mail: claudia.hoebartner@uni-wuerzburg.de
Homepage: The Höbartner Group: Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry