Thomas Carell
Thomas Carell ( born April 26, 1966 in Herford ) is a German chemist.
Life
Thomas Carell was born in 1966 in Herford. He is married and father of three children. He studied chemistry, he graduated from 1985 to 1990 at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, where he at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg " bridged synthesis and study of an electron -donor porphyrin " his thesis on the wrote. The dissertation also took place at this institute between 1990 and 1993 and he completed this with a thesis, entitled " model compounds to study the primary processes in photosynthesis: bridged synthesis and properties of an electron - acceptor porphyrin dimers " bears.
From 1993 to 1995 Thomas Carell went as a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, where he worked on the preparation and screening of molecular databases of small molecules. In 1998, the Habilitation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ ) on " model compounds and Modelloligonukleotide to study the DNA - repair by photolyase ." From 2000 to 2004 he was a C4 professor of organic chemistry at the Philipps University in Marburg, since 2004 he has C4 - Professor of the subject at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich.
November 1st, 2006 Thomas Carell is speaker of the Cluster of Excellence " Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich" ( CIPSM ) and since October 2007, Speaker of the Collaborative Research Center 749 Intermediate molecular dynamics and transformations.
2008 Thomas Carell founded together with BASF SE, the baseclick GmbH.
Work
Thomas Carell worked during his academic career as an organic chemist, especially with porphyrins, ie ring complex molecules, including chlorophyll and heme belong. Of these biologically interesting substances he came to the deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA), their repair mechanisms by specific enzymes, photolyases, he was clarifying. This research offers an approach to cancer medicine, are also his work on the transfer of electrons an important basis for photonics.