Christian Limberg
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Institut für Chemie (Germany)
Invited Lecture
"Faithful Structural and Functional Models for the Cysteine/Cysteamine dioxygenases"
Christian Limberg studied Chemistry from 1985 until 1990 in Bochum and earned his doctorate with A. Haas in 1992. After postdoctoral work with A. J. Downs in Oxford University he performed his Habilitation work in Heidelberg from 1995 to 1999. With a Heisenberg scholarship he stayed in Heidelberg until 2001, then he moved to the TU Munich to lead the Inorganic Chemistry chair on behalf of W. A. Herrmann. In 2002 he became full professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. For his scientific work Christian Limberg was awarded the academy prize of the Academy of Science in Göttingen, the Carl-Duisberg-Gedächtnispreis of the GDCh, the Horst Dietrich Hardt Award of the Universität des Saarlandes, a KAIST Chemistry Distinguished Lectureship in Korea, and the Alfred Stock Memorial Prize of the German Chemical Society (GDCh). Since 2015 he has been elected member of the DFG (German Research Foundation) Review Board on molecular chemistry.