Prof. Dr.
Andrea Rentmeister
PI, DIPL.-CHEMIKERIN
Phone: +49 89 2180 77679
Email: a.rentmeister[AT]lmu.de
Postal Address & Visitor Address
Andrea Rentmeister studied Chemistry at the Technical University of Graz and the University of Bonn, where she earned her PhD in 2007 under the supervision of Prof. Michael Famulok. After a postdoctoral stay at the California Institute of Technology with Prof. Frances H. Arnold, she started her independent career as a Junior Professor at the University of Hamburg in 2010. In 2013, Andrea was appointed as Associate Professor at the Universität Münster, and in 2020 promoted to Full Professor.
Since 2024, she is Chair of Organic and Biological Chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. She was awarded an Emmy Noether Fellowship (2012), the Hoechst-Award of the Aventis Foundation (2015), an ERC Consolidator Grant (2018) and an ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant (2022). She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a corresponding member abroad of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Research in her lab focuses on RNA at the interface of chemistry and biochemistry and aims to understand and ultimately control the processes affecting mRNA expression and turnover.
EXPERIENCE
since 2024
Chair of Organic und Biological Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, LMU Munich
2020-2023
Professor of Biological Chemistry and Biomolecular Label Chemistry, Institute of Biochemistry
Universität Münster
2013-2020
CiM-Professor of Biomolecular Label Chemistry, Institute of Biochemistry, Universität Münster
2010-2013
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry,
Universität Hamburg
2007-2010
Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow (DFG-Fellowship), Caltech
(Prof. F. H. Arnold)
2007
Dr. rer. nat.
Dr. rer. nat., Universität Bonn
(Prof. M. Famulok)
1998-2002
Dipl.-Chem.
Studies of Chemistry, Universität Bonn, (Dipl.-Chem.)
1995-1998
Studies of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, TU Graz, Austria
Scientific awards, appointments and professional recognition
2020-2023
Associate Editor of the journal
RSC Chemical Biology
2019-2022
Executive Board Member of the Cells-in-Motion Interfaculty Center
2019-2021
Advisory Board Member of the journal Chemical Science (RSC)
2019-2023
Chairperson of the executive board of the biochemistry section of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)
2017
ERC Consolidator Grant
2015
Hoechst award of the Aventis foundation
since 2012
Faculty Member of Faculty of 1000 (Chemical Biology Faculty)
2012
Positive evaluation of the Junior Professorship ("Excellent Performance in Science and Teaching")
2012-2017
Emmy Noether Fellowship of the DFG
2007-2009
Postdoctoral fellowship of the DFG
2003-2005
DOC-Award (doctoral fellowship) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
1998-1999
Predoctoral fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
1998
Undergraduate research fellowship of the Central European Exchange Programme for University Studies (CEEPUS)