Monday, 29 October, 2018
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Professor Oliver Trapp becomes new CeNS member
Oliver Trapp is full professor at the Department of Chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany, since 2016. He is a graduate of Tübingen University. After a postdoc at Stanford University with Richard N. Zare he became an independent Emmy Noether Research Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institute für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim/ Ruhr, Germany, in 2004. From 2008 until 2016 he was a professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. He was awarded the Analytical Chemistry Division Award of the GDCh (2003), Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award 2008 (DFG), the Northrhine-Westphalian Innovation Award 2008 and an ERC Starting Grant in 2010. Very recently he was appointed as Max-Planck-Fellow by the Max-Planck-Society. He published over 140 publications. He is interested in the understanding of self-amplifying and autocatalytic reaction networks leading to symmetry breaking, evolution on the molecular level and pathways leading to early life in the context of the Origin of Life.