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Biography
Nadja A. Simeth was born in Cham, Bavaria, Germany. She started in 2009 with her studies in chemistry at the University of Regensburg, Germany, and graduated in 2014 after working with Morten Grotli at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, for her Master's project. Then, she pursued her doctorate studies with Burkhard König at the University of Regensburg, Germany, as a fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. In 2017, she was a visiting researcher with Maurizio Fagnoni at the PhotoGreenLab at the University of Pavia, Italy. She returned to Regensburg and defended her thesis in summer 2018 with summa cum laude. She afterwards joined the group of Ben L. Feringa at the University of Groningen as a postdoc supported by a Feodor-Lynen Fellowship of the Humboldt Foundation. In autumn 2021, she was appointed as assistant professor at the University of Göttingen. She is interested in the design of smart drugs, biochemical probes and labels, as well as photoresponsive supramolecular architectures and biohybrid systems. The current research of the lab spans all thy way from developing small, organic photoactuators to the design and synthesis of stimuli-responsive peptides under the umbrella "PhotoBioOrgChem".Grants and Prizes
2023-present Vertrauensdozentin of the German Scholarship Foundation2023-present Junior Group in the Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB)
2023-present Board-member of the Research Training Group 2455
2022-present Board-member of the Multiscale Bioimaging Cluster of Excellence (MBExC)
2021–present Member of the Steering Committee CRC1611 “Resource-Economical Tools for Late-Stage Transformations”, Göttingen, Germany.
2019 1st Molecular Nanotour Symposium, 7-10.10.2019, Berlin, Germany.
2016 Research Colloquium “Chemistry is not everything but everything is chemistry (org. Chemie ist nicht alles, aber alles ist Chemie)“ for graduate student fellows of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, 28-30.04.2016,
Potsdam, Germany.
Academic Distinctions
2024 ChemBioChemistry-Europe Award of the EuChems division of “Chemistry in Life Sciences” and “Chemistry Europe”2024 Thieme Journal Awardee 2024
2023 “Research Cooperation Lower Saxony – Israel” Grant
2023 VR (Swedish Research Council) Starting Grant
2023 Young Investigator Award of the European Society for Photobiology
2023–2027 PI in the Research Training Group 2455 “Benchmark experiments for numerical quantum chemistry”
2023–2025 Start-up Funding of the Collaborative Research Center 1286 “Quantitative Synaptology”
2022–2023 Start-up Funding of the Collaborative Research Center 1190 “Compartmental Gates and Contact Sites in Cells”
2022 Material Cost Allowance of the Fond der Chemischen Industrie
2020 First runner-up FSE Postdoc Prize
2020 CAS Future Leader 2020
2019 Armin-Buschauer PhD Prize for the best PhD thesis in Medicinal Chemistry, University of Regensburg
2019–2021 Feodor-Lynen Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation
2015–18 PhD Fellowship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
2018 DAAD Travelling Grant to attend the 4th ERC-Grantee conference 2019 in Israel
2017 Collaborator in the High-Performance Computing (HPC) project code HP10C8U1NY granted by the Italian Consortium CINECA-SCAI
2015 Dr. Alphons Paulus Study Graduation Award (Best Master's Degree in Chemistry 2014)
2014 Erasmus Fellowship for a 6-month research stay at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Publications
ORCID: 0000-0001-8130-883XGoogle Scholar: https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=yOrYUEcAAAAJ&hl=de