Prof. Dr. Nor­bert Se­wald

Nor­bert Se­wald was born in Mu­nich in 1961 and stu­di­ed che­mi­s­try at the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­nich. After he fi­nis­hed his PhD the­sis in Or­ga­nic Che­mi­s­try ("New Stra­te­gies for the Syn­the­sis of Trif­luo­ro­me­thyl Sub­sti­tu­ted He­te­ro­cy­cles, Amino Acids, and Hy­dro­xy Acids") in the group of Prof. Bur­ger, he work­ed from 1991 to 1992 in the group of Prof. J. E. Bald­win at the Dyson Per­rins La­bo­ra­to­ry, Ox­ford Uni­ver­si­ty ("Stu­dies to­wards the Bio­mime­tic Syn­the­sis of Pe­ni­cil­lin"). In 1998 he fi­nis­hed his ha­bi­li­ta­ti­on at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Leip­zig ("Pep­ti­des Con­tai­ning beta-​Amino Acids: Asym­metric Syn­the­sis, Solid Phase Pep­ti­de Syn­the­sis, and Con­for­ma­tio­nal Ana­ly­sis by NMR Spec­tro­scopy"). Since 1999 he is a Pro­fes­sor for Or­ga­nic and Bio­or­ga­nic Che­mi­s­try at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bie­le­feld.