Teaching and Supervision

Oct 2010–present

Teaching and training of visiting scientists from abroad [as Tutor/Trainer]

INFU, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany

  • Intended for: Foreign postdoctoral researchers and young scientists from abroad visiting TU Dortmund to undertake intensive advanced scientific training and skill development in Chemical Biology, Applied Microbiology, Plant Chemistry, and Analytical Chemistry
  • Example: 2014: Tutor for Dr. Katarína Nigutová of Institute of Biology and Ecology, P. J. Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia; group of Prof. Dr. Eva Čellárová
  • Funding: SOFOS-knowledge and skill development project grant, European Social Fund through the Operational Program Education
  • Output: Led to several joint publications in internationally reputed journals:
    • Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology (2017) doi: 10.1111/jphp.12782
    • Frontiers in Plant Science (2016) 7: 1616
    • Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (2015) 407: 4779-4791


Oct 2010–present

Supervision of bachelor and master projects, and doctoral students

Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany and foreign collaborative universities

  • Intended for: Chemistry/Chemical Biology master students, enrolled PhD students at our university as well as visiting PhD students from collaborative universities abroad
  • Output: Several bachelor, master- and doctoral theses successfully supervised


Successfully supervised doctorates - 6 students so far:

Finished in 2017:

  • Dr. Li Gang, Dr. rer. nat. from Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany; thesis entitled “Antibacterial secondary metabolites from four endophytic fungi, Eupenicillium sp., Diaporthe sp., Fusarium decemcellulare and Alternaria sp.”; funded by China Scholarship Council (CSC)
  • Dr. Wen-Xuan Wang, Dr. rer. nat. from Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany; thesis entitled “Crosstalk and antibacterial molecules from endophytes harbored in Narcissus tazetta and Buxus sinica”; funded by China Scholarship Council (CSC)

Finished in 2016:

  • Dr. Evelyn Afua Mireku, Ph.D. from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana; thesis entitled “Phytochemical constituents and some biological activities of selected medicinal plants from Ghana”; funded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  • Dr. James Oppong Kyekyeku, Ph.D. from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana; thesis entitled “Bioactive constituents from the Ghanaian medicinal plant Chlorophora regia and its root endophytic fungus JK10”; funded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  • Dr. Kibrom Gebreheiwot Bedane, Ph.D. from University of Botswana, Botswana; thesis entitled “Phytochemical investigation of Erythrina livingstoniana and droogmansiana and synthesis of flavanones from cinnamic acid”; funded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Finished in 2014:

  • Dr. Parijat Kusari, Dr. rer. nat. from Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany; thesis entitled “Isolation, identification and characterization of endophytes from Cannabis sativa L. and Radula marginata”, funded by CLIB-Graduate Cluster Industrial Biotechnology from the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the state NRW, Germany


2009–present

Environmental Microbiology Practical Course

INFU, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany

  • Intended for: Master students pursuing Chemical Biology at TU Dortmund


2012–2014

Lectures and Practical Course in Environmental Microbiology [as Visiting Lecturer]

Department of Chemistry, Higher Teachers’ Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon, Africa

  • Special project: Selected by international competition and approved by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the initiative “Welcome to Africa”.
  • In addition to a three-year research project, I taught an environmental microbiology course in Cameroon that was attended by visiting German masters students as well as African students and lecturers from Cameroon and Ghana.
  • Furthermore, plant samples from the tropical rain forests were prospected, on which both interns as well as scientists employed fundamental and applied research approaches. Numerous joint publications emerged out of the project.
  • The combination of teaching and research has been clearly, for both my German and African students, and me, an added value of knowledge, encompassing new methods of work and intercultural exchange. A successful transfer of knowledge and techniques has been made to our Cameroonian partner.


2013–2014

Supervision of undergraduate projects

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  • Intended for: Students pursuing undergraduate studies at various colleges under the University of Oxford, UK