Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sergey Zotchev, Ph.D.
Professur für Pharmaceutical Biotechnology an der Fakultät für Lebenswissenschaften
Curriculum Vitae:
1985-1991 PhD, State Scientific Center for Biotechnology NIIGenetika, Russia
1991-1993 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoc Fellow at the Department of Molecular Genetics, Osnabrück University, Germany
1993-1995 Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, USA
1995-1996 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
1996-2001 Research scientist, Department of Biotechnology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU, Norway
2001-2005 Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, NTNU, Norway
2005-2015 Professor, Department of Biotechnology, NTNU, Norway
2011-2012 Visiting Professor, Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center, Joint Bioenergy Institute, UC Berkeley, USA
since September 2015 Professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Vienna
Research Areas:
* Biologically active natural products from microorganisms
* Genetics and biochemistry of natural product biosynthesis
* Bacterial genomics
* Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology