Thomas Carell
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Thomas Carell (born 1966) is a German biochemist.
Early life and education
Carell was born in 1966 in Herford Germany, he studied chemistry from 1985 till 1990 at the University of Münster finishing with a diploma thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research Heidelberg. After his PhD thesis on Porphyrin chemistry at the same institute, he did his postdoctoral at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993.
He finished his habilitation on DNA repair proteins at the Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich in 1998.
Career
From 2000 till 2004 he was Professor for organic chemistry at the University of Marburg until he became Professor for organic chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His main interest is still the DNA repair system.
Awards and honors
In 2004, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research. In 2008, he was awarded the Otto Bayer Award for his work on the DNA repair systems. In 2008 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.{{cite web |title= Thomas Carell |url=https://www.leopoldina.org/mitgliederverzeichnis/mitglieder/member/Member/show/thomas-carell/|publisher=German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |access-date=26 May 2021}}
Since 2010, Professor Carell has been an Associate Editor of [http://www.rsc.org/chemicalscience Chemical Science], the flagship general chemistry journal published by [http://www.rsc.org the Royal Society of Chemistry]
References
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External links
- [https://www.dfg.de/aktuelles_presse/preise/leibniz_preis/2004/carell.html Portrait at the Deutschen Forschungs Gesellschaft]
- [http://www.cup.uni-muenchen.de/oc/carell/ Homepage at the LMU Munich]
- [http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/cb/Volume/2009/3/Making_DNA_movies.asp Interview with Thomas Carell] on the website of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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Category:University of Münster alumni
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Category:Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Category:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners
Category:Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
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