Andreas Kirschning's Biography

Andreas Kirschning, Group Leader, Leibniz University of Hannover

Andreas Kirschning studied chemistry at the University of Hamburg and at Southampton University (UK). In Hamburg, he joined the group of Prof. Ernst Schaumann and received his PhD in 1989 working in the field of organosilicon chemistry. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Washington (Seattle, USA) with Prof. Heinz G. Floss, he started his independent research at the Clausthal University of Technology in 1991, where he finished his habilitation in 1996. In 2000 he moved to the Leibniz University Hannover. His research interests cover structure elucidation as well as the semi-, total and mutasynthesis of natural products, biomedical biopolymers, and synthetic technologies (solid-phase assisted synthesis, microreactors and inductive heating).