Christian Hertweck

Christian Hertweck is a German chemist, deputy director and head of the department of biomolecular chemistry at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology.

Career Hertweck studied chemistry at the University of Bonn and did his doctorate under Wilhelm Boland at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in 1996–1999. After a research stay (1999–2000) with Heinz G. Floss and Bradley S. Moore at the University of Washington, Seattle, US, funded by a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), he started his independent research as head of a junior research group at the Hans Knöll Institute (2001–2005), which led to a habilitation (venia legendi) in organic chemistry at the FSU Jena. He has co-authored over 350 publications and articles in scientific journals. In 2015, he was awarded the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation for his research on bioactive natural products from microorganisms.